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I think I could count the number of times I have washed any of my helmets ever on two hands...

gwin!

"Nobody lifts a finger." is a bit of an overstatement. Plenty of people who were there did what they could, which wasn't much since they had other jobs to do and he wasn't gushing blood. They told him it sit down and called the ambulance. He kept standing and waited. Were they supposed to shut down practice and kiss it and make it better? He didn't seem to have any complaints about how it was handled.

Marc Beaumont has done a remarkable progression, it's night and day.

Narrow miss here during practice. WB/UCI needs to figure out marshalling, this should never be a possibility.

Jackson’s DSQ had nothing to do with the poles themselves, other than the wind blowing him outside of them. If it had been tape instead, the same thing happens except he’s tangled up in tape too.

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.

visual summary

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.