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I'm 5'9" and currently riding a medium Norco Sight, although Norco's Ride Aligned settings suggest that I should be on a large. The large feels uncomfortably big, and when I'm descending, the medium feels perfect and manageable.

YES THIS OBVIOUSLY BIGGER BIKES SHOULD COME WITH TALLER BARS AND SMALLER BIKES SHOULD COME WITH SHORTER BARS AND IT'S CRAZY THAT IN 2024 MANUFACTURERS AREN'T DOING THAT YET

The OTB podcast accidentally uploaded an episode confirming a Zerode team with Blenki. No surprise. Taken down after a couple of hours

Jake Atkinson to GT. he’s going to have a big year. Sam Hodgson on transition and rocking a moto lid.

Slammed 50mm stem and 50mm riser bar on Small Nomad.6 frame?--static stack is conserved, and reach maximized. The longer stem, lower leverage point, and longer rear center will allow your hips to stay lower when you're actively weighting the big front wheel. Your info points to the 1240mm bike being the experimental size rather than the 1210

In your shoes, I'd have a close look at the small. It's challenging, as you're basically between sizes. If there's any possible way you can throw a leg over a small, it would be worth it to see if the reach is more comfortable. Good luck!

So not before 24th. Got it.

Ronan to Mondraker. it's a Dunne deal.

holy crap, you've all made this year's rumor season so freaking fun and hilarious. was hard to believe #cappucinoMachineGate could be topped but now #frecklegate has set a new bar. i'd be kinda scared if i was an athlete making team switches next year LOL

lol leave it up to a vlogger to confirm one of the last team rumors of the year.

From the PB podcast... rumor at MSA was Mondraker will have a BIG team budget for 2024.

haha re-sign vs resign, you had me confused… Enhanced Freckle Distribution Analysis can’t leave this thread. You were right to feel uncomfortable, it’s bridge too far. I am happy you did it though.

I would be much slower without my bike, that much is certain.

It's 95% the rider. Case in point: Jackson won World Cups his first-year Elite on the new V10, while Greg struggled all year to find a good setup. Or for you Moto fans: Chase Sexton battled with the Honda the past two years, while Jett Lawerence moved up to 450s over the summer and went 22-0. I've watched plenty of really talented riders hop on different bikes and go really fast. Shit, Dakotah beat me on a Morpheus multiple times. The sweet sauce is understanding setup, having resources (like the ability to evolve a bike to match one's style), and...

Longtime NE Patriots coach Bill Belichick is a polarizing figure in American sports, but there's this quote he said that I love and can't get out of my head, "Coaches don't win games. Only the players on the field can win games. Coaches can lose games, though." That's what I think about bikes in competition. Bikes can't win races, but they can lose races. As such, my goal in setting up a bike is that it doesn't lose me the race, i.e. mechanical drag or inefficiency, mechanical failure, flat tires, inconsistent or unpredictable performance, major unpleasant tradeoffs, etc. Basically if...

Let's say there is a perfect bike for a given rider's size/proportions and riding style, then they could get 100% of their potential from that bike. There is no bike that will make a rider better than their skills (mental and physical), but having a bike that doesn't fit will keep the rider from reaching their potential. So that is to say a bike can't make you better, but it can certainly hold you back. You also have to keep in mind that the rider may not be able to get on the perfect bike, and likely they don't even...

Huh. Weird. Something must have happened during the 2019 WC season for Brook.

Will be interesting to see how things go when these guys swap bikes. Trummer and Tahuto didn’t seem to have their best years on that mondraker, and brook didn’t like it. Mondraker has some heavy hitters now, will be interesting to see what they do on it.

Truth. The Inside Line pod has also been very much on point lately, well done Spomer.