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Junior women Winner was faster than Elite woman winner

"Man, it's rough out there on the track today. I either need to add some high speed compression, bump up my fork pressure, add some low speed compression, add a token, pump up my tires, add a front tire insert, raise my bars, or increase the psi in my stem suspension. One or the other, I think."

Ah yes, don’t we all just yearn for an authoritarian dictatorship to keep us safe.

No place hates mountain biking more than the birthplace of mountain biking.

Wouldn’t this program be the one that produced a world championship winning rider. Why do school boards attract the most asanine of people.

Marin sounds like the worst place in the world to be a mountain biker. I’m always amazed at how terrible that place sounds.

With talk about Danny doing his own thing/team and Athertons buying a defunct company to start their own brand and Gwin basically investing in Intense, could we see someone setting up a team with non-frame-related sponsor (gear and outside sponsors) with a relatively big budget and get someone to design and build a bunch of one-off, proto style bikes and make dunno, a new frame specifically for each track or like Nico used to do it, designed around the world champs track? Considering what Barelli said about the Grim Donut and the possible performance of it in Chile, it could...

Nice, 2021 rumors thread before the 2020 season has even started, what a year!

To kick things off with some truth before the rumors, Madison Saracen has announced that they are parting ways with Danny Hart for next year: ------------------------------------ After a year where it’s fair to say that things haven’t gone to plan in the downhill world – or the sports world in general – here at Madison Saracen we’re looking forward to 2021 with a renewed sense of optimism and some changes to the line-up. For 2021 we’re introducing a well-rounded team capable of great results in three different categories. First up is Jordan Williams, an exciting young talent who joins the...

This tread is hilarious I’ve taken the stuff that boys got pinged for and it’s not even that good, a hard dose of caffeine, taurine and beta give you way more of a kick and they are all legal Yes they are banned and yes he got caught. But he has served his time, which is in proportion to the crime. Stop making out like these guys are bad people who ran intentional, calculated doping programs to rip off other athletes, they made a mistake and will now move forward in their careers much wiser, as will the rest of...

@tmano2 that's a pretty loaded and dangerous accusation to be throwing around about a professional athlete simply based on your feels and not one shred of factual evidence. There an interview with Jerome Clementz and a few others in VeloVert this past winter that posed the question of Richie passing Oton as you mentioned and not one racer thought it was a big deal... For one, no PED work that way. You don't get superhuman powers and at best it is small marginal gains. Even Jerome blew it off as Richie seeing his closest competitor in front of him and...

Weren’t the substances totally legal the previous year? Everyone in the field could have been taking it in 15 & 16 and wouldn’t matter. Likewise I bet there’s a lot of people taking what’s legal now but next year would be classed as a cheat. He’s no Lance Armstrong and the stuff he was taking wouldn’t turn him into the Hulk. Yes it was on the banned list but I don’t think doping can be classed as black and white.

VitalMTB needs to get Richie to sit down for a Maury Povich style *lie detector test* where Spomer asks him a series of pertinent questions- and the polygraph technician then gives a Thumbs Up or Thumbs Down to each question ........that’s about the only way anyone would believe him