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I'd take everything on that other site with a grain of salt. They seem to work on at least a week of delay maybe more. Danny said that quote quite a while ago now. I seem to remember reading it at least two weeks ago somewhere else.

This is the best Vital content in years. An all-star cast that shred and don’t take it too serious, along with a nicely selected group of bikes. Great insight on each bike along with the industry in general. A+ footage is just the bonus. Thanks for the hard/fun work.

Awesome to see a big boy review, so tired of the 150lb guys riding the bike in it’s designed size and trying to figure out what that means for me at almost 6’4” and 200-210 pounds. Almost 2.5 years on my S5 Enduro and I’m still loving it. Custom tuned Avy suspension has been amazing. Wish I was skilled enough to hold it on the edge for more than a few seconds at a time…

Welp, I am the newb and just learning how to internet. When I clicked and looked it was all 27.5" and I didn't scroll thru all the options... I'll just keep my mouth shut and go back to PB. My apologies and as you were.

Gee I don’t know bro are you learning how to internet? They have 29” forks in stock in every travel and color except black 160 and 170. 27.5 front wheels don’t count because those are for peasants.

I just wanna ride like Sam Hill in Earthed

Yeah this was super bizarre, although not that surprising given the platform. The review was pretty accurate but terrible timing when the new version has already been launched and addresses every one of those shortcomings! The problem is people are going to skim the article and think it’s referring to the new one, so it’s straight up terrible journalism. I don’t strictly mind reviews calling out a bad product, but if it’s not even remotely current then it’s either lazy content creation or they have an agenda

Thinking out loud here. Maybe ESO heard/read all the comments about how the trackside coverage by Vital, edbullmedia and moimoitv was leaps and bound better than their coverage, postrace coverage by wyntv. Possibly took that personally and will make freelance coverage like this much harder next year and heading into the future. They have already made it harder for riders who like to post their vlogs from race weekend.

It's a rumors thread, not a one person gospel thread... It's perfectly logical he doesn't want to share the source.

Is this still the team rumours thing? Asking for a friend.

But notice how Emilie has been MIA for quite a while now? She missed half the season this year. I know Cami got hurt at Andorra, but ever since Emilie has not been present at the Pivot camp. Whereas before she was there very round, even after MSA in 2022 when Cam wrecked her collarbone. Maybe there was a falling out after Bernie started dating his 19yo employee?

Absolutely noone wants to read your political posts, and your name dropping really isn't helping either. Loads of folk in the chat have contacts with high level names in the mtb world but dropping them like you are doing is just weird. We are all here for fun team rumours chat not politics. Take it elsewhere.

"I actually kept up with Sam Hill" should be the headline. That's resume material. Who cares how many practice laps, still counts in my book.

As a junior I used to race Sam Hill & Nathan Rennie, could you imagine how badly I got beaten lol. Rennie would often turn up hammered from the night before and still wax everyone.

Back in my motocross days, I passed Zach Osborne. He then picked his 80 up and passed me on my 450 shortly after.

Brage's dad liked one of my posts on instagram once.

This year I've chatted briefly to the Commencal Muc-Off chef and Thibaut Daprela, and bought a t-shirt from Mama Ruffin. I'm basically one of the team now.

Steve Peat came to the dirt jumps I built as a teenager. Then they got bulldozed.

Lopes yelled at my son and his friend to "put their helmets on" during a transfer at an enduro once.

Luke Strobel and Bryn Atkinson told me my chain guide wasn’t clocked right in the lift line of the Mt. Hood Fluidride Cup in 2009. I built Christian Wright’s 2011 Champery World Champs race bike, where he proceeded to be the fastest junior American male, in 38th place. Shaun Palmer stopped by the shop I worked at on his way down to Sea Otter and I installed a bottom bracket into his girlfriend’s Intense XC frame. He paid me with a copy of his autobiography DVD, I was psyched.