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gibbon Liked a reply to forum topic 2024 Red Bull Hardline
5/27/2024 10:51am
Old person here. Rampage is too groomed.It's so 'mid' now. 90ft jumps are not the norm for pro's......not even the darkfest crew. I know some of the 'boyz'. Most of them are scared shitless. *You're The event is owned and run by RB. The diggers (some of the Dyfi crew) are contracted to build/maintain the course. Dh is a minority sport.....but that does'nt mean that there should be a high chance of death for a minor mistake. Both Bk's and Jims jumps could have gone very,very,very badly wrong.It's bike racing.....not Beyond Thunderdome (ask your Dad). I'm going back to my...
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DirtyHal Liked a reply to forum topic What happened to neck braces in DH?
5/25/2024 8:17pm
To dig this up, suffered a crash in my sight lap last weekend before the actual dh race that day. Ended up in the hospital Sunday night and ultimately got a surgery first thing Monday to fuse my c4,5,6. The spinal ortho surgeons at Harborview were adamant that the leatt brace did not make my injury worse and likely prevented it from being worse. It is expected I will make a full recovery minus the 10% loss in flexibility in my neck due to the fuse. I’ll be pushing these things on my friends for the rest of my life...
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sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/25/2024 7:41am
teamrobot set a record for forum thumbs up, so here's a preview of what's to come (unlisted, only for the special people in this forum topic) regarding taking out pawls and testing ochain.
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synBike Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/25/2024 7:35am
The rules around this seem very ambiguous (or people at the UCI aren't clear on what telemetry actually is). By the letter of the rules it seems fine but I know Nick at Downamics/MucOff Younguns has inquired several times about running our data acquisition systems (which have no transmission ability) for race runs and has been refused. It's now a situation where you can run electronic suspension which collects data AND acts on it while not being able to just collect data. Feels a bit inconsistent to me.
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mntnmrtn Liked a reply to forum topic 2024 Red Bull Hardline
5/25/2024 2:59am
Maybe it’s the angle of the picture, but with the speed they’ll be coming down on that ramp, the flat part before the takeoff looks like a weird flow breaker.
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barryjenson Liked a reply to forum topic 2024 Red Bull Hardline
5/25/2024 2:57am
For me, the scaffold structure takes away from the rugged Welsh mountains bit of a shame to see it head this directions on track building
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TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/22/2024 9:47pm
Would y'all want to see a 15-minute VitalMTB video with back-to-back testing on a section of brutal rocky chunder with different pedal kickback theories to see if the Ochain really works as advertised?
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mx_563 Liked a reply to forum topic Poland World Cup Downhill - Bielsko-Biala 2024
5/16/2024 9:34am
I was born in Poland, but I grew up in California....spent 40 years there. Now I'm back in Poland...as luck would have it....in Bielsko-Biała. For the past 3 years I've been riding most of the trails that'll be used at the event. Prior to that, my resume includes mostly Skegg's Point and Braille in the Santa Cruz Mountains, a run down Mt. Lemmon outside of Tuscon, and some Tapia Canyon (Castaic, California). I'm old and mostly ride motorcycles with MTB stuff peppered in here and there. Nevertheless, I think I have some unique credibility here. So if you will endulge...
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Onawalk Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/11/2024 11:56am
The important part for all of us to remeber is that its all just individual opinion, about adults playing on bikes in the woods, none of it means anything really. We dont have all the info, we dont know exactly whats being tested and ridden, or how, why or if it even works, we are just guessing. Its cool stuff, thats really the end of it.
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dolface Liked a reply to forum topic Poland World Cup Downhill - Bielsko-Biala 2024
5/10/2024 9:09pm
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nsp234 Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
4/30/2024 3:54pm
They wanted to, but from what I've heard a large part of R&D resources went into the development of the bike diaper...
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Losifer Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
4/29/2024 5:06pm
Chris Canfield has a new company coming, Vampire Bikes. Appears to be a steel front triangle, alloy rear. He said that it will be DH/"super enduro", not unlike the Canfield ONE.2
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carlinojoevideo Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
4/29/2024 5:01pm
Does it looks like like oval chainstay is on Amaury’s frame compared to rectangle? Also an axle mount to chainstay option vs stock is mounted to seatstay.
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carlinojoevideo Liked a reply to forum topic Tire chat (nerds only)
4/27/2024 3:12pm
Here are my non-scientific results! Frozen Tire Durometer Test Details: Used IRC Tanken treated with hot laps tire treatment(Applied months ago) Used durometer hardness tester Type “A” Temperatures taken with infrared digital thermometer Tire Temp: 58f in garage Durometer rating: 56-61 Put tire in sun for 1 hour; Tire Temp: 110f in sun Durometer rating: 55-58 Put tire in freezer for 5hours; Tire Temp: 13f Durometer rating: 65 Tire after frozen but at room temp; Tire Temp: 68f (room temp indoors) Durometer rating: 58-60 In Garage after frozen Tire Temp: 59f Durometer rating: 58-60 Other ratings for comparison (Temp 58f-60f)...
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Nzdinosaur Liked a reply to forum topic Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
4/26/2024 6:26am
I've wanted these brake tests to be run in the opposite format as itll be more relevant to the user. ie , run the dyno at say 200Nm and see what lever force and distance is required to stall in say 2.5 seconds. This should tell a better story as lever geometry will be considered in the results. As an end user I'm more interested in how much hand force is required rather than comparing max figures. Does the lever swing 10 or 25mm? These factors contribute more to ride feel and use.
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kcyeeto Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
4/26/2024 6:24am
sick pirellis
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krabo83 Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
4/26/2024 6:24am
sarcasm isn‘t your forté… name checks out 
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anotherbikerguy Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
4/17/2024 6:03pm
Steel for the teeth, carbon for the spider, aluminum for the direct mount attachment. $149. I wonder if you could reduce the eventual cost of replacement by making just the wear portion of the chainring replaceable, and integrating the spider into the crankarm since the spider doesn't experience any wear.... no, that's too ludicrous to consider. (I'm sure it's a very nice chainring. Just funny how we end up engineering ourselves almost all the way back to older concepts.)
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