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I think I could count the number of times I have washed any of my helmets ever on two hands...

This is the midpoint of the Downhill season, race 5 of 9. Here's a look at where things stand: Notes on Current Elite standings: Elite Men standings: Only 12 riders have earned points in each of the first 4 races. Oliver Davis, 25th in the standings, is lowest ranked among riders who have earned points in each race. 3 of the top 10 Men in the standings have earned points in only 3 races. Finn Iles leads 2nd place Amaury Pierron by 41 points. No Elite Man has earned at least 100 points in every race. Elite Women standings: Only...

I kind of agree that the music hasn't hit as hard lately, but that is based on my personal preferences. Also I like Vital polls. I do however, disagree that a poll should decide their music. Part of what makes Sleeper so good, is you'll never know what video style you're going to get, and that is based on the filmers knowing the vibe and the shots they got. Democracy is cool, but art decided by democratic votes won't be as good. That's how you get grey paint on walls and only silver and black cars. They are the least...

Every time I hear sixfinity

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 sport. I also will cast a little shade on our community. We've bemoaned the loss of grassroots accessibility to the World Cups while also bashing hardtail dude, who represents just such grassroots privateerism. Dude managed to navigate the red tape...

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...

Unfortunately, a 140 mm head tube makes running a dual crown difficult. Oh wait…

Norco team for track walk this year

Since you guys are talking about Sam Hill, this is pretty timely - a brand new mini documentary on the man himself!

VALI! looks so fast, strong and fit...also nice to see her back in a D4 and TLD kit-it's where she spent most of her helmet and kit years and just looks right on her. As long as she keeps reminding herself that this is just bikes, fun, she will be hard to beat in an overall title chase.

This is so perfectly in contrast to the comments above about Hill and a sad reality of the world, ones maybe the best MTB rider ever.. won everything, not a big media guy, no endorsements. Yet somehow a 40-50 guy gets endorsement deals because he likes to talk to a camera.

If you ever rode bikes, that were in mountains, or woods, and jumped a lot, or made curvey turns and felt good riding said bikes in said mountains or woods, until dark, at any point in your life: brage. Get that trek deal and get that money and get those bontrager wheels popping and JUST KEEP SMASHING. Yeah. We like brage. And Sam Hill. GTFO.

I have designed a 40mm rise, 25mm reach for 35 handlebars for my 29" modified Intense M9 not long ago😜 I do it for the love of the game, maybe we can work together on something? We can end up designing something custom and having it made there in the land of the free (?)

Some enduro observations from the UCI Teams release I made: - the new rider Cube was teasing a while ago is William Scheele from Norway - the only rider registered for enduro at Pivot Factory Racing is Morgane Charre. What happened to Ed Masters? - there's a new Speed Project team, with Adrien Dailly, Melanie Pugin and Julie Duvert among others - there are only 5 times with EDR riders registered: Abetone Vittoria, Cube Action Team, Pivot Factory Racing, Speed Project, Yeti/Fox Factory Race Team

Commencal 101 is a development team and was only kids until now. They've been on the euro circuit for a while.