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I'm sure I'll get hate for this, but I'm not sure a dh race is the place to bring your dog. I've had enough issues with trail dogs (I feel pretty strongly that most dogs shouldn't come along for the ride and aren't as great on the trail as their owners say they are) and not sure massive crowds full of yelling, screaming people is the place to bring your dog.

Was at a race spectating and some goon was ripping a chainsaw with ear defenders on, someone walked up, pulled them off his head and said if I’ve got to listen to that then so have you!

Yeah , fuck chainsaws at races. Fight me. 😋

So build a go around (with an obvious time penalty) for the juniors, or anyone for that matter, that aren’t up to hitting the big features. Wanna hit it? Hit it. Don’t want to? Don’t. They should be able to make that choice on their own. But that’s just like, my opinion man. Regardless, this has got to be the most looked forward to track in a really long time. Racings going to be insane. I really hope they film qualis this round. Would be a huge shame if they don’t.

what a great race! queue 20 podcasts and youtube videos about chainless runs 🤪

Welcome to the future. https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/news/results-val-di-sole-world-cup-dh-eli…

So they broadcast men's and women's q2 on the Whoop UCI YT-channel and it's awesome. Better not do that anymore then... What a shitshow😡

i think it is pretty easy to differntiate between a pedal powered bike and a full motor driven bike. I don't think they will police at all but respectfully do not agree that it will be too difficult for ht he man to differentiate.

This is the message that we are seeing law enforcement out here pushing.. A Surron, or similar bike, is still a motorcycle..

Probably the Scor, or Crestline e bikes come closest to full DH performance. The Slash + would be sick with a dual crown, but the low power motor kind of kills it for me. Haibike made the Nduro 8 Freeride, which looked pretty decent at 180/180 on Ohlins and mullet. The Kenevo Comp at 180/180 probably shreds hard enough, but that probably goes for rear shocks also with the supersized Stumpy design. The Niner WFO can be run with a dual crown, but it's pretty heavy, and Niner might not be around much longer from the looks of things. The...

I wonder which current ebike comes closest. I thought the SCOR 6080 was a super sick model on release. And kinda looks like the closest thing to a DH ebike. I know a ton of dudes on SoCal have been dropping dual crowns on the YT Decoys. Maybe not quite the same but fairly close. I like the overall build of that Canyon Torque ebike but... It's a Canyon, already seen guys with those locally that have failed one way or another. I think some dude dual crowned an Ibis Oso as well lol I think SCOR comes the closest...

Yeah, that's usually how it goes down in europe with illegal mtb trails that the land owner doesn't want: they go over them with machinery and destroy them. With surrons or more powerful ebikes this will happen faster and more. This discussion is very us-centric. In most parts of europe motos are banned in the woods or mountains on trails. In many parts of the alps there are de facto bans of bikes on hiking trails in national parks or countries like Austria or bavaria sometimes enforced by rangers. Also in regions like Vinschgau that market themselves as mtb destinations...

Make them illegal to sell or import, or some other avenue to shame them out of existence? Seems like they have created an impossible to regulate situation, unless they don't exist in the first place. Three wheelers used to be a scourge that killed or maimed their own riders - now they are not.

I don't understand the hate for e-bikes (pedal assist,) but I can totally get behind a ban on throttle-controlled e-motorcycles on bicycle trails. And this is coming from a motocross dude who also rides MTB. If it will go fast, spin the tire and uses a throttle, it's a motorcycle; It really doesn't matter if there are cranks and pedals attached to it if they don't have to be utilized. I'm also interested in seeing what's going to happen with these. From a legality standpoint, most of the trails around here aren't really policed by any authority, so it's like...

C.G. > Today’s commentary clownshow

Take a drink any time someone says "big man"

I'm guessing that the the addition of XC to this round means we might not get the DH Q2 coverage this round. WB have been anything but consistent with their coverage , wouldn't surprise me at all if this is the case. I hope I'm wrong.

When you read past position 30 and realize there are maybe millions of dollars invested into the people not getting to race finals, I seriously think this is going to choke off sponsorship & race teams. There is virtually no reason to field a rider and/or team. I mean, the elite 3-4 man factory backed teams are getting 1, maybe 2 riders at most into finals. But you have to field a team of 10 to get points? The investment versus the exposure is god awful.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole promise of cutting the field down to 30 riders was to make it so they could show all 30 of those runs in their entirety. It seems like WBD moved the goalposts on that front pretty hard if I'm remembering correctly.