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You don't need to pedal a motorcycle for 4 hours up hills...

Is it really a rumour if you post your own bullshit?

Team tin-foil? The world cup rider's association has always been only the top 30ish men and top women riders. It was never a union of hundreds of riders and was never planned to be such. It was, from the outset, about protecting the careers of the most elite riders. As you said, "saw from the outside", so what you saw and what is reality in this case are two different things.

Bruni has always been generally unlikable for me. He has always seem spoiled and entitled. He has moments where he see like a fun decent human but then he always finds a way to remind me why I don't like him. I remember there was talk about all the riders just not taking a run to prove a point and it was said someone would not follow. Bruni is the one who would take the run. He would say look at all the points a just gained like that would make it ok.

Just use a free vpn like windscribe and change your location to canada. Don't have to pay espn. Judging is already jacked. No way tom van's run was 1st thus far.

If you're going to pull the waste card for online ordering, you're ignoring the waste of an item being packaged/shipped to the LBS and then you driving to the shop to pick it up vs the item going straight to your house. I agree with your concerns about keeping money in the local economy but where do you draw the line because basically every brand makes all of their products abroad? You're upset with Yeti for selling direct but not for them making their frames abroad?

Virtually every shop I have ever been in: “We don’t have that at the moment, but we can order it for you.” I can order it too, and it’ll come straight to my house. I’m going to install it myself anyway regardless of where it was purchased. Why would I make a second trip? Complete bikes are the same. I’m going to go over your build with a fine tooth comb, so why wouldn’t I just build it myself from the get-go. I don’t understand people arguing so hard to support brick and mortar just because that is the long...

Do you shop exclusively with your LBS for all things MTB related?

Edit your post, it got broken a bit, at first glance it looks like you're posting pictures of the current/old demo saying it's the proto one

Can you people PLEASE take the Pivot stuff somewhere else. It's NOT racing talk.

Gwin owns a team so would have to be a move for the full team to YT yeah? Also I’d say Gwin was well established when he moved to YT back yonder.

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...

He gave props to GT's new Fury for carrying speed on flatter/faster parts of the track in addition to the Specialized/Maxxis chatter. Don't think there's anything at play, he's just a solid dude on commentary and to me doesn't put any bias into it even when his teammates are on track.

This is spammy AF. Knock it off.

and The Most Fried Take award goes to...

MTBR forums are HUGE compared to a what's happening here on Vital. Every mtb niche imaginable is well covered over there. The main page content has always been crap, but there is a vast wealth of knowledge buried in the forums.

The purpose of DH racing isn't to sell dh bikes. It is for general marketing and to sell mid to high level trail and Enduro bikes.

Why does DH have to be like F1? Gets tiring be compared to other sports. the only improvement DH needs is better pay for the riders.

How many times in the last decade has a rider been up by 10 seconds? Like I said, riders are so close it's not really relevant.