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K. That’s enough of USD fork talk here.

The point is that the 5 person podium is only there because the Australian federation wanted to grandstand a junior rider back in the day. Returning it to the 3 increases the prestige of being on a step and makes it a bit less of a medal handout.

Don't think the riders will be happy to be paid peanuts for the fringe sport entertainment for a few core fans?

Yer I see the points made but there is no pont in a five podium. Any other sport it doesn’t exist WB are putting mtb up against main stream sport on a Saturday and Sunday afternoon it’s a big ask but for the sport to grow it needs to align with other sports how poor did Xc look with riders getting off and walking / running. Doesn’t make it look a great TV spectacle. close racing in dh does, with riders on the same .*** of a second and then being the top three for a podium. big times gaps...

Name another sport that has a top five podium? 5 podium is a joke. It’s gold silver bronze may as well have everyone as a winner and give them a medal like in kindergarten this is the last year with top5 podiums at a race round.

AI should be banned lol

Who cares ?! If they are happy that’s the more important. You are not better than the keyboard warriors / armchair riders from the PINK site that you are complaining about.

Those frames looked pretty good with Pinkerton and then Ethan this weekend…

I have been riding motorcycles for 40 years. E mtbs are nothing like a motorcycle. I get a great workout and cover 4x the distance in the same amount of time on mine. Time to retire that argument. Love not get annoyed by biting flies on the climbs too. Underrated benefit IMO

6 years ago Gwin claimed to be making over a mill and that would have only risen now he owns and runs the IFR team and has shares in the brand. Gwin is very smart with money (knows his worth and is driven to get it). He owns and manages the team so would be pulling a salary from that, the team sponsors are chosen by who pays top dollar to be involved rather than performance. Even his move to Tennessee from Cali is financially incentivized. Out of all fifty United States, California is ranked 10th out of 50 for...

A few things I don't think there was that much to hide to be honest we all knew, well most of us knew it was a modern version of some Italian bikes such as DM and Ancillotti from the early to mid 90's I think maybe its more the shock they have been hiding and not the frame, this seems a bit of a set up with the bike being photographed on the edge of the van and inside the van, its not like anyone was hiding it. Lastly if it is super secret and this is a leak its...

prototype demo without clothing! #allhailLawlor

RIP EDR or EWS or whatever you want to call it.

Why is there hardly any coverage of enduro this year and where are the E-EDR results?

pretty much

well here we are (new pinion goods from eurobike) https://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/features/eurobike-2023-day-1/pinion-mgu…

Ben Deakin has a new Focus

What sucks is the UCI highlight video of the last EDR race was almost 30min long and only 3 minutes of that covered the e-EDR race at the end of the video. It seems like the lack of coverage is because of the ebike haters are always whining and complaining about it. They should have equal coverage or a separate highlight video of their own.