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I’d love to see a shoot out of trail bikes using the same linkage designs. It would really interesting to start to dig a bit deeper as to what sets them apart - quality control, kinematics, maintenance, etc etc.

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Zerode are launching a new frameset, looks like two travel variants, 160 and 140mm. Shadow and Shadow Trail. 450mm chainstays on the large too. Internal frame storage too. Curious what the kinematics are. Looks pretty cool imo! https://zerodebikes.com/products/shadow-origin Rob continues his streak of only launching bikes like a month or two after I buy something else...

You mean chainstays?

Stop talking about Ford, with enough mentions the Ford sales team will find this thread and think we want more of the abominations. https://ford-bikes.com/collections/frontpage?srsltid=AfmBOopli28vcdxT2i…

yeah I prefer this to arguing about brake mounting standards tbh

I love DH bikes. They make my motor hum like a buzzy bee. I get excited just looking at my DH bike and all silly when I ride it and pretend I’m Asa who makes it look SO easy.

Take it easy buddy. I’m not trying to derail the entire conversation but also think it’s allowed to have an aside now and again. There’s plenty of off topic quips that go on in this thread.

They all broke and evil nearly went under.

Looking at my hands, I have some large callouses in those areas. So part of it may just be more time on the bike. That said I am very picket about gloves. They have to almost be too small so they don’t bunch up at all. This leads to them blowing out at the finger tips quicker than they should but that’s the trade off. I use gloves that don’t have any padding in them as that tends to bunch and cause rubbing. Also I like larger grips. It means I have to close my fist less, which makes the...

Is RicMc pretending not to know the big jump is closed?

Nice work out there, lads. Hats off.

Along with not being called out for causing any incidents (so far), I mean the dude has a single finger for braking and beat hardtail guy by ~90 seconds. The rider that took the longest to cross the line was... Dak. As far as I know he caused no incidents to other riders all weekend. It seems that the true issue causing problems in this scenario wasn't necessarily the bike type, how many fingers you have, or how many times you crashed... More so what resides between the ears. And how you can use it to safely navigate a course...

Well he is the champ for his country and has an actual physical disability verses just a guy pulling a bit of a “look at me”. Again I’m not even mad the hardtail guy is there. I just think he should’ve borrowed a buddy’s bike and gave it an actual go.

How many incidents did he cause?

@sspomer when is bikes unaffiliated leaning into typical podcast discussions of wild conspiracy theories? I mean how can the HT guy not be a plant by WBD to turn the whole fan base against privateers. It's obvious they are a safety hazard...

Nonsense like that is going to ruin it for the actual privateers trying to make it happen.

couple of observations For a track with so much line choice possibility, it's kind of funny how one line has burned in and not many are deviating from it. The hardtail guy is exactly the opposite of what the UCI/WBD/Bruni wanted isn't it? I thought this was for elite factory teams, the formula 1 of DH has a 1994 Toyota Camry running on 3 cylinders on course. You will know I'm a big proponent of privateers. But I kind of feel turning up on a hardtail is taking the piss a bit and is not in the spirit of the...