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Karabuka Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
6/26/2025 4:45am This seems to be going along the route professional skiing has already gone: Competing as national level is doable for a lot of people but as soon as you transition to international junior category it becomes crazy expensive. I know this from a first hand, a sister of a friend was a national skiing champ pretty much her whole juvenile...
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Karabuka Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
6/16/2025 12:08am I'd just add that VDS track gets pretty bad gopro effect... And keep the hype train rolling, this year we still get Champery worlds!
dolface Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/5/2025 4:20am AFAIK chains don't actually stretch in any meaningful way, the rollers (and maybe the pins) wear allowing the rollers to sit off-center on the pins. The plates stay the same length. (Or am I missing what you're gettting at?)
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Karabuka Added a reply to 2025 World Cup Downhill / EDR - Loudenvielle, France
6/4/2025 6:32am Throwback to last year VDS https://youtu.be/gsBqtNcxCI4?si=i2VHaHy3L-G9pHME&t=1024 where Tahnee Seagrave provided a great discussion about the protected status!
Karabuka Added a reply to 2025 World Cup Downhill / EDR - Loudenvielle, France
6/3/2025 12:24am Fast AF provides by far the best insight into the french riders, it always feels like a bunch of friends talking at pub where they just give it all out!
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Cableguy Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
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f.i.t.nj Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
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notthatbryan Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/15/2025 3:10am The red is a small belt. Specialized is going after the Gates $100,000 just like the other teams, they are just being stealthy about it. I hope that's it just because it would be funny.
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Karabuka Added a reply to 2025 EDR #1 - Pietra Ligure
5/12/2025 1:34am No! Gates is also continuing its trailblazing €100,000 Belted Purse contest for the 2025 race season. This incentive rewards the first elite racer, male or female, to win a UCI Mountain Bike Downhill event on a Gates belt-driven bike.
Karabuka Added a reply to How does Frameworks afford Asa?
5/6/2025 9:05am Exactly this, we've had amazing juniors in the past who absolutely dominated the field but not everyone really made it in the elite, for example Finn took a few years before winning his first elite race (has been close a lot of times though) and even Vali struggled in the first year but she pulled it together eventually while Jackson...
jonkranked Liked a reply to forum topic How does Frameworks afford Asa?
5/6/2025 8:52am one thing that's always talked about is making the jump from jr to elite. by all accounts its a significant change - from the size and depth of the field to the overall talent. staying on the same team that's been supporting him from day 1 is one less element of change, allowing him to focus on the racing aspect of things, rather than that plus getting situated on a new team and a new bike.
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Karabuka Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
4/25/2025 12:55am This is not mtb but its one of the more interesting ideas lately, has it been already mentioned here?
Karabuka Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
4/24/2025 4:33am I believe the majority of Fox sales in Europe are made by the companies assembling bikes here like Canyon, YT etc and these numbers are obviously not small...
ctbiker888 Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
4/24/2025 1:03am
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sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
4/24/2025 1:02am this press release i just received seemed pretty tech but maybe it belongs in the geometry thread. i'll start here... I am reaching out to you because I believe your audience would be interested in our company's launch in early May and the two new products we're launching with, the Cardio Speeder and the Super-E. These are the first-ever "procumbent flying position" electric bikes on the market. The procumbent flying position, a new riding position invented by Martoni CEO, Marty Williams, is a posture that combines ergonomic riding with speed. On a procumbent bike, there is no saddle; riders step...
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Karabuka Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
4/16/2025 3:36am Really, why would you use road mount on a mountain bike? I know there are adapters but PM is honestly the best mount there is...
Karabuka Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
4/15/2025 10:46am Orbea is making a live version of Tech Rumors, what a crazy world we are living in... 😅 https://experience.orbea.com/en/fmd-show-me-the-bike