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I agree. He’s her boss.

Asa on Frameworks confirmed Furthermore 5Dev stepping in as major sponsor

I know this is the internet, but multiple things can be true at the same time. Could Gwin have been wanting to help a fellow 'merican? yes. Could it have not been possible to sign him for more based on the teams budget mid way through the year? yes. Could Dak have deserved better compensation? Yes. IFR could have "taken advantage" of the opportunity to sign Dak for less than they may have if the situation was different. "Taken advantage" does not have to be framed in the context of abusing a situation or person. It could just be that...

Exactly. It's as if I mentioned this before but was shot down by people wanting to believe that Gwin was helping out a fellow American. Dak's contract is far from great, IFR had all the leverage because of his bad luck with the YT timing and they really took advantage of it. People may not want to believe it, but it's the truth. The guy deserves to be on a better program with better compensation. On that note. It sucks to hear about teams potentially folding, but from my understanding, there are actually some new teams and money coming into...

yeah, he said that also in a interview. I don't recall which one, too many vlogs

Dak was quite vocal on the last Inside Line podcast about his financial status riding for Intense. Unless his contract terms improve substantially he'll get poached by another team for sure.

DAMPING

Gonna unsubscribe from the forums for a while. Let the rest of you have a civilized chat.

I’ve drawn some lines to create a triangle that illustrates why it doesn’t move if you were to lockout the shock. The pivot up on the seat tube by the yellow line is fixed. The pivot that is the red circle is effectively fixed when the shock is made rigid. Those two points define the blue line. The green line and yellow line are fixed length. As a result their positions are completely defined in space.

from our g-out project at world champs. always something in the way but you can see how the upper link moves and the chainstay pulling the lower link.

A few things I don't think there was that much to hide to be honest we all knew, well most of us knew it was a modern version of some Italian bikes such as DM and Ancillotti from the early to mid 90's I think maybe its more the shock they have been hiding and not the frame, this seems a bit of a set up with the bike being photographed on the edge of the van and inside the van, its not like anyone was hiding it. Lastly if it is super secret and this is a leak its...

Not the big reveal from Specialized marketing I was expecting.

Too much victory water at Snowshoe?

Finn’s mechanic right now:

I bet someone isn't super happy with someone else.

the experts on this thread would say that this was planned to give advantage to the euro-narcissistic racers that ride under rain and cold, conspiracy from organizers to also make the UK riders feel at home ; )

It is a flat track, and you are allowed to think that this is not what is good for the sport you are at the top of, no ? If you go extreme, why not add the sea otter to a world cup, it is still downhill in the end. Yet it is not what I or Loris think downhill should be. Some guys might even like Sea otter track, it doesn't make it a good downhill track. And this season Bruni is the fastest on all the flat sectors, so he doesn't need straight ski slopes, he needs flat...

Would be a big surprise to see Lake Placid/Whitefish on the schedule. DH Mike...you lurking? He was pretty adament that he pushed every day all day for a World Cup there but that the wealthy elite of the mountain were super dismissive. I remember that 8 minute race weekend, he held a DH race followed by a chainless DH. Gerrit Beytagh won both...only 4 seconds slower chainless. The pics & video of that mountain were amazing looking. Could fire road down to get a start hut of 3 minutes. But pretty sure that's just not happening because rich people. And...

Yea, I was speaking towards the casing/sidewall prototype. But I actually raced both of them, I swapped halfway through the day. The Mudslayer(not the actual name) was also super good.