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hogfly Added a reply to Midwest(ish) DH Races/Series
4/6/2023 10:05am Intense Downhill Series on the East Coast, which will all be like 12+ hours from you, most likely. Arkansas is all enduro, unfortunately without any DH.
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thomas.gehrig Liked a reply to forum topic Lew Buchanan Banned from UCI Racing Because of OnlyFans Sponsorship
4/5/2023 9:43am
Americans are funny, you can have the Nascar Freedom Jesus 500 sponsored by NRA , big pharma and like Busch light and people will say that this is acceptable and more than ok for kids/role models, while "porn" or weed (remember when JD Swanguen got a ban from racing due to having weed in his system?) are still seen as big bad evil and will corrupt the mind of your young teens.
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w4s Liked a reply to forum topic Lew Buchanan Banned from UCI Racing Because of OnlyFans Sponsorship
4/5/2023 7:31am
I understand your point and i'm not really defending either side but I could argue that Neko's helmet sponsor could be much more destructive than Lew's OF sponsorship. OF is a paywall site, no kid who decides to look up OF is going to see a ponanny getting stuffed with a cucumber unless they steal their parents credit card, but they can steal a can of their parents Dales out of the refrigerator. As you already noted, alcohol is a physical addiction and is much harder to stop than something like porn addiction, so shouldn't we have much strickter regulation...
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Salespunk Liked a reply to forum topic Lew Buchanan Banned from UCI Racing Because of OnlyFans Sponsorship
4/4/2023 7:53am
OnlyFans have been trying to change for a while and even announced a ban on adult content at one point. The backlash was so quick and loud that they had to reverse the decision. Their quest is not altruistic though, they want an IPO and the only way they will get it is by breaking the association with adult content. Back to the subject of LB specifically, the UCI is headed by a bunch of rich white guys (I am one as well) who are embarrassed/upset by women taking control of their sexuality(I am not one of those). The historical...
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hogfly Added a reply to 2023 TEAM RUMORS
4/3/2023 7:31am The UCI is ridiculous.
hogfly Added a reply to 2023 TEAM RUMORS
4/3/2023 8:49am Isak Leivsson? If so, he moved to Norway fairly recently.
hogfly Added a comment about feature Downhill MTB Racing, Sponsorship & Social Media Discussions - Rich Houseman of Hookit
3/31/2023 7:45am
That's possible, but while Instagram isn't transparent about the way their algorithm works, there definitely seems to be more to it than "people like this, so we push it further." Or maybe all the SEO folks pushing how to "hack" the algorithm are just blowing smoke. Here's an article: https://sproutsocial.com/insights/instagram-algorithm/
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hogfly Added a comment about feature Downhill MTB Racing, Sponsorship & Social Media Discussions - Rich Houseman of Hookit
3/31/2023 7:11am
Haha. Agreed. But when you have a random reel that within a few minutes of posting gets like 5k views and another within minutes has only 50 views, it's obvious that one post got thrown into a lot more people's feeds than the other by the algorithm, not because actual human viewers were interested/disinterested by the content of the reel.
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hoeperjoe Liked a comment about Feature Downhill MTB Racing, Sponsorship & Social Media Discussions - Rich Houseman of Hookit
3/31/2023 6:15am
great listen - enjoyed it a lot. I missed Robot's on this one - I love when he is included in discussions. more team robot, please!
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hogfly Added a comment about feature Downhill MTB Racing, Sponsorship & Social Media Discussions - Rich Houseman of Hookit
3/31/2023 5:48am
Loved it! Really great interview. I am a little baffled by his dismissal of the fickleness of the algorithm. Anyone who works in SEO and with social media knows that Instagram is constantly tweaking their algorithm and it’s way more complex than just “make better posts and they’ll get exposure.”
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hogfly Added a reply to JASPER PENTON UPDATE!!!!
3/30/2023 4:45pm Fairly….
hogfly Added a reply to JASPER PENTON UPDATE!!!!
3/30/2023 1:19pm Man, I hope not. Hope it also doesn't indicate being in a bad spot and having to sell a bike. Hopefully he's just got a new ride and is about to start shredding. Guy is like the DB Cooper of mountain biking.
hogfly Added a reply to Brendan Fairclough arrested in Mexico??
3/29/2023 11:16am On the Ride Companion, Olly Wilkins (one of Bren's best mates and helped build the Guanajato Urban DH course). He also mentioned that Anthill films were down there filming in the area.
hogfly Added a reply to 2023 Racing Talk
3/23/2023 5:45am Windrock is unreal. We were there for the Enduro. On Thursday, I saw Gwin, Pinkerton, Luca Shaw, Dak, Frida, and Grice in the shuttle line. That area is really becoming the epicenter of the DH scene.. and for good reason.
hogfly Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/15/2023 5:00pm It actually looks decent on BMX bikes, but the he size and proportions don’t work as well on a MTB.
hogfly Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/15/2023 9:42am Their instagram has the "Stomper Ace FS" on it today, which appears to be a legit kid's full-suspension bike with a dropper. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cp0MmPyKRKG/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
jason.west.750 Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/15/2023 9:40am
New Sensor to be released in a month per GT.
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hogfly Added a reply to Brendan Fairclough Compares Supercoss vs. World Cup Downhill
3/14/2023 5:32pm This shit was hilarious.
hogfly Added a reply to WTF is up with USAC?
3/14/2023 9:56am In all honesty, I'll be curious to see what the numbers look like for Gravity Nationals. In Winter Park, at least, it felt like the XC crowd made up the large majority of the participants and spectators, dwarfing the gravity crowd. Even when the DS was packed with spectators, it was a lot of XC folks coming to view.
sspomer Liked a forum topic 2023 USA Cycling Gravity MTB National Championships and National Downhill Series (NDHS) Schedule
3/14/2023 9:04am
USAC Gravity National Champs - Ride Rock Creek, NC - July 12-16 (also at same venue in 2024) www.riderockcreek.com 2023 NDHS (National Downhill Series) - Tennessee National, March 25-26, Windrock - www.tnnational.com - Mountain Creek Spring National, May 25-28, Vernon, N.J. - www.mountaincreek.com - Fox US Open of Mountain Biking, September 21-24 - Killington, Vt. - www.usopen.bike USAC has finally announced the Gravity National Champs location and date. It's at Ride Rock Creek in North Carolina July 12-16. XC and Gravity Nat'l Champs are no longer together at the same venue. USA Cycling has also made the National Downhill Series...
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