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metaphorically speaking

I want to gouge the guy’s eyes out with my thumbs

Sounds increasingly like after 30 years, WC DH as we loved it will be over... I for one don't care to watch a curated liste of "elite" teams race each other and pretend their are the best in the world haha. I never pay for sports, but I surely won't even try to watch now.

Another quote about feeder series " I firmly believe we have to do that (catches himself again)........err I mean when I say we I mean we as a community ........not we as Warner Brothers" He talks about the lower football leagues as an example......The premiership give between £500,000 and £5million to every club in the lower divisions. WB want other people to do all the legwork and then they get to keep all the money.

To be honest he's closer to Saruman. Good interview. The closest Ball has got to any form of honesty. Bullet points. 1. Confirms that they want Wc to be Elite only. 2. Says it's not their job to support a pathway to actually becoming elite. 3. Their goal is 'growth' to 'increase value'.......but only in casual viewership and value to themselves 4. The path to this is 'simplifying' the sport ie making courses shorter, shorter broadcasts. 5. That everyone needs to stop complaining. Wb are not in this for shit and giggles. They are here to make money. It's value...

haven't watched, is his transformation into Gollum complete?

Looked through the thread and didn't see anything on this bike. New Obrea or just some rebadged bike I'm brainfarting on?

How did they determine protected status? It seems to be based off current MTB World Series standings but that seems odd considering everything else is based on UCI ranking and this race is technically separate from the series. Pretty silly anyone is protected and even sillier they have qualifying, let alone qualifying that doesn’t even determine start order.

Thats the new „Shredda Front“ Ebike Tire (with radial casing),launched with the Albert, it has absurdly tall knobs, even higher than the Dirty Dan. There is also the rear version, which has the exact same profile as the albert, only a bit taller and spaced a little bit further apart. I have the rear one on my dh bike up front currently to test on the weekend, as the albert is nowhere available here atm.

If I remember correctly, in a podcast Greg said that his deal includes after he retires, running the team, developing the bike. I would imagine he wants to have a similar role like Peaty does with Santa Cruz.

in our interview w/ him earlier this year he made it clear he'd still be involved w/ the team even if not racing at the WC level.

Not to sound like a dick but I hope most people ignore this. 1) Martin is one of one. You don't ride a bike like him and neither do I. 2) According to the telemetry data I've seen, most (good) riders do in fact use their brakes for ~85% of a descent. Even Neko just noted at the WC level guys are on their brakes 80% of a run. 3) The whole point of a brake is to take kinetic energy and turn it into thermal energy. The more "room" a system has with respect to heat management, the better...

On the Propain Website you can already spec the Enduro Supersoft Contis, haven‘t seen that elsewhere.

Nooooo. Please don't tell me that same BS nomenclature is now going to migrate over to cable operated components as well. I'm not sure I can take it.

There's something comforting in knowing that no matter where you are or the level you ride, it will always be wonderful weather before and after a weekend, but rain on your ride 🙄

We knew it was coming, but still sad to see. I'm afraid I think we'll see a few more of these announcements before the year is out.😪

I wish people would quit using the F1 comparison. Supercross/MX is a little closer, but both are still worlds beyond where MTB is. Some quick googling informs me that the 2024 F1 team budget is $135 million per year and that EXCLUDES driver salaries and the salaries of the three highest paid employees. A friend of mine worked for one of the top 450 teams in SX/MX and that was a $20 million/year operation which included the salary of two riders. Between the racing formats, they do what, 31 race weekends a year in moto?!?! 14 rounds in F1. And...

are the downvotes based on? cause i'm talking facts here, oh let's remember the 28gr for a udh, so at the axle, Gx vs GX t-type you have ( cassette + deralieur ) 738gr vs 936gr, so 200gr of extra unsprung weight, on a total of 219gr more for t- type, now on XO is 370gr, so the huge (100gr) weight saving on the frame are not only gone but gone right at your rear axle, nice

he said 100. which is quickly reg gained right where it matters, at your rear axle with those bricks, hem, sorry, transmission deralieurs