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The Canadian sleeve almost went to an enduro racer today. Jonathan Helly dropped last but finished 3rd. Kasper Wooley took 2nd and Jakob Jewett took the W. Jesse Melamed took 4th and Eliot Jamieson 5th. Women’s side was Emmy Lan taking the win. She’s been doing more dh. Gracey Hemstreet then ALN followed by Sophie Lawrence and Miranda Miller.

Thats actually funny because if I ride in the alps I don't see expensive ebikes that much on the trails or in Bikeparks. They are mostly parked in front of 'cabins' with a restaurant that can be reached by fireroads or asphalt roads and are ridden by pensionists or couples and upnto 50% sag (yes I saw a guy riding an Enduro ebike without a helmet and approximately this amount of sag). And they pedal with maybe 30rpm and shift with the motor. So of course they need big batteries and strong motors. Also in germany ebikes are subsidized via...

In my experience, "Pro" tends to mean it costs more. Also see "Elite," "Ultimate," or the model with the most extra letters after it.

Danny’s 1st run: If that doesn’t get you frothing to ride…

Ok forgive the quality I drew this on on canva.com with a touchpad, after work I can CAD it up but hear me out- a dampen(ing?) reservoir attached to the rim to control tire rebound. You pump your tires up to like 40 PSI, but then this reservoir has a piston that moves up and down that allows your tires to have a real, effective larger air volume but when you compress the piston to get more air volume the piston returns based on a rebound shim stack EDIT this could live in the hub and use a hollow spoke...

1. An application that could use the hell outta this is fat bike tires. Likely a minority in this thread, but getting a bigger, floatier contact patch without having to drop to low single digits would be a helluvalot of fun, what with making a zippier experience on snow or beach days. 2. Getting a casing that damps out vibration better will allow suspension to work better. Watch any of the super slow mo huck to flat vids and you can see the hiccup the rebounding tires adds to the suspension action, basically bouncing the bike a bit before the...

So it sounds pretty novel! Read all about it on the other site, and if AP was actually running 30 psi in the wet at Les Gets, then it really is a big change from existing tire tech. I believe AP has been on the French nearly-flat-tires program for a while prior to these. Very cool to see actual innovation in tire tech, although it sounds like this is more a case of borrowing an existing idea from another application (as it often is in the bike industry). And it sounds like it worked as advertised on the discontinued Maxxis...

some of you wouldn’t be happy in heaven. each and every time I crest the top of a climb on my eeb I shake my head and laugh at how great it is. Playing with house money after my first day on an eMTB, they’re so sick! I’ve never expected a bike to last more than two years, so maybe that’s the issue, but my eebs have been right there with every other thing in this hobby. Unsure if Shimano are the worst, but certain they’re more fun than any pedal bike (DH bike + chairlift is the only thing...

Having run plenty of demo days I'd say it's about 30% just having a go on an expensive bike for free, 20% just telling you what is wrong with the bike, 20% "just confirming that my bike IS better", 20% "I'm thinking of replacing my 2011 bike in the next 3-5 years" , 9% having one of the bikes on a shortlist but "I'm going to buy whatever I get the best deal on" and 1% actually going on to buy something from the demo. A couple a year was more than enough to never want to do it again.

U.S. National Champs Race Replay video

As a person who HATES marketing but had to work in it for a while as an advertising filmmaker (I made commercials and short form video; I loved telling stories) and currently does not work anywhere near the marketing world: Cutting marketing budget during a slowdown is very often a bad choice. Marketing doesn't have to be commercials. It's whatever your company does with the intention of making your target market feel more favorable about your brand. So much of selling a product is about being the brand/offering a product that is recognized and trusted by your potential customers as...

MTB = Monetary, Tariff, & Budget rumors

Marketing (the department where demo programs live) is typically the first place to get their budget cut when sales slump. A friendly reminder that not all marketing is evil. Free demo programs are pretty great for customers.