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32" is a standard size that has existed for decades

Yeah this almost deserves it's own thread, Mert is one of THE greats and made a huge contribution to the mountain bike world that most people probably don't realise these days. On Any Sunday still holds up as one of the greatest sports movies ever, and the opening shot of Mert walking down the street with a suit then smash cuts to onboard footage of his flattrack racer is brilliant. RIP

Rik's ok as an anchorman, I guess BUT if he's going to be sat in a West London studio he's going to have to take MORE NOTES and be up to date with any course changes, for example. A quick scan of forums and socials on the build up will give him enough factoids to take up plenty of the dead air. But he needs a colourful and knowledgeable co-commentator, at least the XC race, despite being a run&bike mudfest had Oli Beckinsale who is experienced enough to keep Rik on track.

I know Neko is coming to Creek, not sure if he's racing or not. He has an event where you can sign up to do track walk with him and talk about lines, tips, etc.

Top 5 Elite women in the standings after Korea: Höll - 216 points Scarsi - 190 Harnden - 175 Nicole - 165 Roa Sanchez - 150 Top 5 Elite men: Vermette - 250 Bruni - 180 Pierron - 180 Vergier - 150 Pontvianne - 132 Top 5 teams: Commençal Riding Addiction -120 Commençal Schwalbe - 87 Frameworks - 57 M-S Racing - 55 Canyon DH - 53 Notes: Privateer Antoine Rogge is 18th in points. He also finished 18th in Q1 as well as in the Final. Kind of amazing how that works. (I've always rooted for him since he...

Again in the Women Elite race with those comments - how is the producer not getting in his ear about that? I didn’t think we could take a step back in the commentating but so far this broadcast has a lot of room for improvement.

And he did one run. He didn't insist on running that bike all weekend.

I don't like the things Sram appear to have learned from the UDH launch and adoption. Again, they're trying to be Apple, just waiting for the EU to knock them down a peg haha.

ahhhhhhhhh I did miss the joke

lawlor just now confirmed dak is NOT on a 32" wheel.

lawlor just sent this over. kolb's V10 27.5-inch wheel dropout on his XL. (sorry, had it backwards)

At the beginning of April, DT Swiss launched their new EX1700. XD and HG Slim hubs are standard offered hubs in those complete wheels:

and not only are they already really good, but you can’t afford to miss out on the next one. Happens in all the sports for a while…until there’s a few fizzle-outs and they change the rules. But our currents vets are the last actual old dudes. Bruni cracks me up with his tactics sometimes, I can’t believe they ever work on these dudes! He’s a bigger picture guy than most but I don’t know how he kept a straight face even pretending he’s not there to dominate! Worst reverse psychology verbal sandbaggery I’ve seen dude come ON! lol “oh yeah...

100%. If I see AI used to replace a creative thing, I'm out.

jackson's v10 from korea