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Welcome back to the Life Choices and Personal Fitness; Rumors and Innovation forum. Can we go back to bikes please.

Furious Sheep Ahead!

Conti 29" DH tires are 1300g and seem pretty tough to me so far, good damping, feels more substantial vs Maxxis DD for sure. Argotal DH Supersoft ft/ Soft rear has great traction in steep/loose and isn't bad at all on rock and hardpack. A friend just put on Argo DH SS front (replaced an Assegai Maxxgrip) and was also raving about the grip in loose conditions. In my limited experience so far the new Contis are excellent.

Not sure if this has been posted about the new Pivot DH bike https://flowmountainbike.com/features/pivots-prototype-downhill-bike-ch…

It definitely IS vittoria, they did a nice closeup of the branding when Hugo Frixtalon finished with a puncture.

have heard rhys won as well. i asked a squid about enduro vs dh at same venue, and how they tried to cover it. response, "enduro spent the day away in another valley and returned at 630pm for the final stage when everyone had left." something about lift being closed for media during final stage, so they couldnt' really cover it and liaison from race start to stage 1 being 3 hours (lift ride then a big climb). i don't know if that kind of liaison is typical, but it sounds long. xc, dh and enduro seems like a whole...

My name Is Justin Started MTB in 98, been away from it for the past 8yrs. Got back into it hardcore again and purcahased my first new bike since 2011. Brand new Santa Cruz Chameleon.

Troy from west MI. Just getting into the sport. Planning to replace running with mountain biking. Just got an upgraded mid 90’s (I think) GT All Terra Tempest with RockShox fork. Any info on those is appreciated. Thanks!

Hey Losifer, couldn't agree more. Was surprised to check Vital this morning and see a wall of female butts in panties facing me. Like you said, if this was an ad selling women's panties to a website with a predominantly female audience, then sure, fair play. But that's clearly not the case here. The last Vital audience survey in 2022 said this audience is 96% male! I don't know how many times I've heard industry people ask how we can get more women into mountain biking and I'm pretty sure the answer is "Not like this." Selling products to dudes...

new slash

we just experimented with a live pit bits. lawlor cruising around. we'll work out some kinks, make it a bit more formal and keep it going in leogang and if you're online at the time, can ask questions via youtube. our regular pit bits video w/ more deets will show up later today. boosh!

I feel like people keep forgetting about this, so I’ll re-post it.

Tasmania only recently got colour TV bro.... wtf is starlink

This is wild, Milan Vader replaced the shock and link w/ a rigid strut for XCC today and will (presumably) switch it out for a shock/link set-up for XCO. Bets on whether the UCI shuts this down or lets it stay? https://escapecollective.cc/cervelo-turned-a-full-suspension-bike-into-…

How 'bout you two little boys go out for a ride on your bikes and quit being rude or I'll delete all of your posts. M'kuy? And now more Tech Rumors!...