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hogfly Added a reply to 2026 Loudenvielle World Cup Downhill
6/1/2026 10:02am Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed that "Flight attendant" was constantly talked about. And I don't know... it seems like to me the other commentator has almost given up on the job. He would, occasionally, have something insightful to start offering, only to have Ric interrupt him to say something pointless. Maybe that's just robbed him of any...
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hogfly Added a reply to 2026 Loudenvielle World Cup Downhill
5/29/2026 8:59am I've noticed that Frameworks (Asa specifically) don't seem to participate in Timed Training. Anyone have any insight? Is this strategic on their part? Do they feel like they have their own timing system (maybe via GoPro) that they use to gauge how their riders are going against other riders? They just don't want to know? For at least the last...
hogfly Added a reply to 2026 Race Talk
5/17/2026 6:25am 2030 for World Champs with, I believe, expectation for a race there in 2029 as well as a "test" event.
hogfly Added a reply to 2026 Race Talk
5/12/2026 5:46am It’s kind of the opposite of the GoPro effect in making things seem even steeper and narrower though I know that terrain IS steep.
hogfly Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
5/11/2026 10:25am Maybe this has been covered, but Spesh made huge drops in e-bike prices. In listening to the JRA podcast this morning, one of the hosts who works for a large SLC specialized dealer said it would be better if he didn't talk too much about how this is screwing over Spesh dealers. Assuming that Specialized just did the price drop...
hogfly Added a reply to 2026 Race Talk
5/9/2026 9:06am I recently listened to the episode, and I think he was talking about the Trans Tasmania race that he and Jack did. It was a “traditional” format Trans race (multi day, multi location, “blind” individual stage racing) but since they seemed to be doing it probably for an appearance fee and not actually racing, they did a bunch of followcam...
hogfly Added a reply to 2026 Race Talk
5/7/2026 11:25am Hell yeah. I said it after watching Jack and Charlie's followcams of the Trans Tazzy race, but I think a team race like Cape Epic (somehow timed to encourage proper followcam) with followcam footage would make for a pretty awesome race format. I thought that Martin Whiteley (or someone I heard on a podcast once) was pushing for an enduro...
jessemelamed Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Race Talk
5/7/2026 11:18am
How do we like this?
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hogfly Added a reply to 2026 Race Talk
5/6/2026 7:36am From the DT recap, evidently the issue was that it was: A blind landing A long run-in to the jump with the blind landing without any course marshalls along that stretch, so no warning whistles of approaching riders The B-line rejoined the track in the blind landing. Take a combination of any 2 out of those 3 factors, and it's...
amaranth Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Race Talk
5/6/2026 7:32am
Ah ok, I thought it was the big jump. I stand corrected.
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hogfly Added a reply to 2026 Race Talk
5/5/2026 5:05pm I can’t remember if it was Charlie Cs wet track did video or somewhere else, but evidently WYN’s crash was on a jump further down the track. Downtime post race with Neko and company indicated the same. I thought it was the big jump everyone was casing as well this whole time, but I guess it’s further down.
hogfly Added a reply to 2026 South Korea world cup
5/1/2026 8:34pm One of the podcasts, I believe Downtime, said that. I assumed it was a 2 year and was a little surprised to hear 3.
Clownshoe Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 South Korea world cup
5/1/2026 11:33am
There's two things in my opinion: The design of the B line for that jump joins back up in the landing of the jump. The B line should continue further along the course, maybe to the next corner. Hard to tell from the video, but it looks like that would've been possible. HT guy is a cool story and all, but at the World Cup level I don't think the novelty bike should be a thing. I'm sure he's fast as fuck, but he'd certainly be faster and more competitive on a full sus. But he somehow navigated the red...
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hogfly Added a reply to 2026 South Korea world cup
5/1/2026 10:48am I'm not going to cast too much shade on Hardtail Bro. I will, however, cast plenty on the mixed messaging and policies of WBD/UCI. Their implied goal has been to raise the professionalism and elite nature of the sport. Simultaneously, they've allowed a racer to use a hardtail to compete. This is inconsistent with the way they're supposedly pushing the...
hogfly Added a reply to 2026 South Korea world cup
5/1/2026 6:56am Yeah. Theres clips of Asa’s pass of HT guy. He did nothing wrong and pulled out just fine to allow the pass.
hogfly Added a reply to 2026 South Korea world cup
5/1/2026 4:10am Asa also had to pass hardtail bro in his quali run.
hogfly Added a reply to 2026 South Korea world cup
4/30/2026 8:55am I think that's also the one, in Jackson's preview, where he says "that's really hard to make the corner for." So it seems like the lead-in to the jump screws with the speed needed to clear it if you don't hit it perfect.
hogfly Added a reply to 2026 South Korea world cup
4/30/2026 7:38am I imagine it's the one that everyone was casing. Sleeper put out a post of tons of cases on that jump and captioned "Obligatory hucks on the questionable jump"
hogfly Added a reply to 2026 South Korea world cup
4/29/2026 8:32am According to Chris K. on Downtime, they were too crowded with traffic jams and such and people standing in the way of being able to see the lines. He said the managers would often sort of have a gentleman's agreement from weekend to weekend of who all could come, but he said like girlfriends, family, etc.. and such would come...
sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Race Talk
4/28/2026 3:14pm
Just some heads up on the World Cup this week. Lawlor is there and will be providing the goods! We'll have PIT BITS, RAW and The Weekend once again. We have a South Korea World Cup forum thread here - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/2026-south-korea-world-cup?page=3 Fantasy will be up and running once the quali start lists are in - https://www.vitalmtb.com/fantasy/2026/round-1-south-korea#round-desc Join the Global League to get in on prizes - https://www.vitalmtb.com/fantasy/leagues 2026 details - https://www.vitalmtb.com/fantasy/how-to-play
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