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I think you've got rose colored glasses on regarding the Amflow frame. The v1 got a lot of criticism for being very flexy, particularly in the rear end. It had the dubious design choice of a yoke-driven trunnion shock (Vorsprung says in their suspension design manual that if you end up with that design, you should "put down the bong and start again"). Slapping Fox suspension and Transmission drivetrain on it isn't some genius product manager move - almost every bike out there does that these days. The wheels, hubs, bars, and stem are all in-house products and not exactly...

Watch it slowly and Troy passes the marshall who looks like he is reaching for his flag. Look farther down the track and you see Jed is still in the process of crashing and hadn’t even gone off the track completely yet. All this on a fast but fairly straightforward section of track that doesn’t see a lot of crashes over the years so probably why you don’t see a Marshall every 100 feet. I’d feel the same way if was Jackson just like I don’t feel Hardline needs to pad every tree especially in a tech section like the...