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I get that, but typically he’s worn Leatt whilst riding moto. Time will tell!

Their enduro team was done last year but they graciously kept me on board for this year with my contract having another year on it. Sounds obvious of course, but the bike industry isn't always so giving. The DH team took me in and I had a blast all year long, which was the main reason for doing DH at the end of the year. I just wanted to hang out with the team some more, and who wouldn't take the chance to race World Cup DH while they can. As for next year, stay tuned.

If this is the plan. I'm not mad. At. All.

I'm sure quite a few kids are messing up their education while they chase their dreams in the junior world cup. Don't roughly only 5 or 6 from the juniors rank every year make it to professional level?

Ok here is my unified semi-conspiracy theory that explains the proto V10, Jackson Goldstone's bike weights, the mysterious lack of a Specialized Enduro, the development journey of the Demo, lagging enduro enthusiasm from bike companies in general, and even the Orbea Rallon. Manufacturers think that e-bikes are the future and are orienting themselves toward dedicating a majority of their efforts toward producing them. They have the following assumptions about e-bikes: -E-bikes have shown that the weight of the motor under the bottom bracket can actually play a positive role in how a bike handles. It drives the front tire into...

Dak goes all in on explaining his race run. He might need to do another version that is more so 'explain it to a 5 year old' for me because I could never process the amount of data these racers do. Really highlights how racers need to just know, not think about, but know where every rock is that could put them off line. Because one bad rock strike and that could be your tire done...

I don't really buy the idea that Gwin was “impeded.” He started where he started just like everyone else. That’s racing. We dropped protected status from World Cups for a reason, and I don’t think it makes sense to bring it in here either. Seeding matters. The whole race weekend matters. If you mess it up, you deal with the consequences like anyone else be it riding through dust, having a weather affected run, whatever. It's not just a one run race it is a whole weekend from track walk, line choice, practice, quali/seeding, and a race run. You've got...

I'm on desktop rn so I can't link it but the IG is @globalactionsportssolutions

Additionally, heres a gif. The colors come out weird because the two bikes are layered on eachother :/

As the parent of a kid who is looking to head down that path from way outside of Europe , I don’t necessarily feel no juniors would be a bad thing. I would be pretty happy for him to have a few more years of life and education up his sleeve before needing to move to the other side of the world to chase that dream. It would take the pressure of kids, especially non euro kids to “ make it” on the world scene at 17 or have to give up and head home.

why not just make WC open to all ages? maybe that's what the rumors are involving? w/o knowing UCI rule specifics and how difficult it may be to open things up, plenty of juniors right now would be top 20 in elite. x games has 10-year-olds competing against 40-year-olds. if age categories were removed, i doubt teams like yeti or commencal would look very different. all riders would just compete in the same class. not sure why age actually has to matter in a race environment like MTB (insurance issues?)

I wrote (then deleted) a (poorly written) post last night, but I’m in the minority here; I agree with Needles to a large extent. I'm not bitter, and I'd be totally fine if they kept the junior category, but from a precedent standpoint, it's rare to have juniors compete alongside elites in any sport. To be fair, it's also rare to have men and women race the same course on the same day, and that won't (and shouldn’t) change. The real issue WBD is trying to solve is how to make this “property” valuable. I don’t think juniors are the...

FWIW, front wheel loading and more upright positions or higher bars, I'm pretty sure there can be situations where higher bars will enable a rider to generate MORE front end grip (loading) than lower bars. I've mentioned the skiing analogy - if you can't load the fronts of the skis, where do you need to raise the boot - at the rear or at the back? Common logic would say at the rear, to rotate you forwards. But in actuality it's the other way around. Raising the toes requires the skier to lean forwards to be balanced, loading up the...

Brian Cahal's vid of him using the raised reversed stem also featured him washing out the front and eating dirt. You know it's something riders won't mess with when even the guy known for having a ridiculously high stack (Dak) runs a stem that roughly matches his offset. To me it seems like there's absolutely nothing to be gained from really short stems.

PIT BITS video Leogang World Cup DH.

For those who want to start prepping for fantasy, here are the results from last year - https://www.rootsandrain.com/event12176/2024-jun-9-whoop-uci-world-cup-…

Fast AF's RAW 😳

Jackson's course POV