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Isn’t this what early EWS was tho? I thought riders were complaining that it got too short and easy?

Richies on a new chainguide this season....

finale practice video. looks rad!

That i assume is a proto Formula fork, might be a 38mm enduro specific fork i guess looks cool with this livery

Is Enduro really dwindling? Or is it like the Mark Twain quote about his death being grossly exaggerated? Local Enduro events here sell out very quick. Lots of stoked riders.

electronic suspension discussion topic created here - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/electronic-suspension-discussion (you're all welcome to start these yourselves. if they're good topics, i'll homepage them). #gizmos

That bit about Frameworks customers offering their frames got me feeling stuff. Thank you, mountain bike people.

Updates from Neko's story (lmk if I should stop posting these, don't want to clog the thread if y'all are on top of the latest)

Well, Brosnan IS impressive. And so is Loic. And Finn. Everyone’s jumping to conclusions about electronic suspension after a single race. The entire season will tell if this is noise or signal. The five riders up top could been the top 5 no matter what. Great race, but we didn’t see anything special. Dak threw down a heater. Yup, he’s capable of that. Brosnan, Finn, and Loic put down better times. Yup, they’ve done that before. Loic stomped everyone and looked like a textbook doing it. Yup, he’s done that without electronics, too. You could argue that Luca being back...

Anyone done a chainless race down a forest road that doesn't require much braking? My crew does a ride where a no-pedal gravel road race back to the car is tradition. At 200 I beat 160 pound friends who are on faster tires. So really, it's not a race, it's a scale. Here's the past winners of Fort William WCDH: https://www.rootsandrain.com/venue13/fort-william/events/filters/dh/ser… In the men's race, these are some of the taller/bigger riders we have had in the series. Brosnan winning here in 2014 is impressive. Benoit is a bigger dude, he's got an advantage on any higher speed section that...

And don't forget the placebo effect. If you take 4 out of the top 10 riders and give them Mike's Secret Stuff they're gonna go out and destroy the Monstars... I mean, do well in the race. Not saying the electronics didn't work at Fort William, just trying to stay realistic with a sample size of only n=6. I think this is Loic's fourth season* on Mike's Secret Stuff... I mean electronic suspension, and I don't think his win rate is so different from 2016-2020 vs. 2020-2024. *I think his first race on the Ohlin's handlebar lockout was Lousa 2020...

I find high-speed tracks less interesting to watch. Just my opinion. It's harder to notice the details that set the best runs apart. I like watching weird turns, off-camber lines, sloppy carnage and maximum creativity. I'm fine with one track like Ft. Bill per year, variety is good. I just hope they keep it weird for a bunch of other races.

Fort William is flat? Wonder why they aren’t using trail bikes instead.