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My two cents. I like watching “second tier” riders right along side the pointy end dudes. Especially when you get to see a rider develop over a few seasons. The rider that starts to qualify more regularly, then becomes a top 15-20 dude, then top 10, and finally a podium threat. I like to see this on the same courses as Loic and Jackson, it gives me scale. I love WC racing, I pay to watch. I am not going to suddenly start paying close attention to IXS Cups. I’ll look at the results of a Monster Energy Series race...

Jeff, I have been doing the same thing. Here is finally what I decided to go with: The great thing about this forum is great ideas and opinions are abound. It is clear everyone here wants the best for the sport and for the athletes. There is a line that we all fear being crossed and more are seeing it as a real possibility as the event is reaching some scary levels. It has always been a gnarly event but it is starting to hit differently. We seem to all agree on a few things. Riders enjoy taking risks, every...

Sure thing. That said, I appreciate @mickey raising the broader implications. We all know there’s no crystal ball when it comes to geopolitics, even the most experienced and “in the know” get it wrong. I’m less interested in what Joe or Palmer specifically think and more interested in the overarching impact, which I believe was the real tie-in to this thread. You could debate the “if” and “when” of this topic for days, citing Jeffrey Michaels, Bonnie Glaser, Oriana Skylar Mastro, and a dozen others... and still come to no meaningful conclusion. Also, calling Palmer a “mediocre electrical engineer” is...

Like I mentioned, it is an extreme end of the sport and brings about very different opinions on it. We may not agree on the value of it or the values of the riders. I appreciate you sharing your thoughts, gives me a different perspective to consider. You point out some rational concepts and consequences. We all share a passion for these two triangles connecting two circles that we control with a stick. And we all take them very seriously. I do question the long term validity of the event. For the first time, I turned it off mid stream...

The sad thing is... we all knew "THIS" was eventually going to happen, or even worse, a rider dying. It was just a matter of when, NOT if. Plenty of professional extreme sports athletes have paid the price with injuries and/or death. We all know the consequences of our sport. Some of us may treat those "consequences" as the pink elephant in the room, ignoring them and some of us use it to slow down. We all remember the day we fell in love with this sport. We do it for that "feeling". As for Mr. Silva, let's pray that...

enough product talk in team rumors.

Cam just put up a post with Adolf! So relieved to see him smiling

Look maybe you have a point but chatting shit about Dak on Vital is just such bad manners. We don’t do that here

No - biggest story is someone wearing shorts in Quebec on October 11.

Hilarious this is now hidden due to downvotes 🤣

Strava is a social media platform.. The only difference is that you generally have to go do something to post there..

I've seen it dozens of times where the ebike is the equalizer.. One person is the stronger rider and the spouse isn't as strong or as serious of a rider.. Suddenly, the ebike allows them to ride together and both are able to have a good time. If there's one thing I've learned during my 30 years in the bike industry, it's the bike industry does an amazing job of marketing to the customers that they already have..

Looking forward to the discussion on this. The public history tells the story of a founder cashing out at the peak of the boom, retaking the reins when things got rough, failing to make the necessary changes to the business, and ultimately having to declare bankruptcy. How do you hire Kolb mere months before going bankrupt? How do you run a flash sale mere days before your investor pulls any future financing? Decisions like those indicate a management team that did not understand the state of the business they were running or the market conditions they were operating under. Or...

Great. So all we need is for the sneaky guys who have never done the right thing to be transparent and responsible and do the right thing!