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mickey Added a reply to Lightweight eMTBs = heavier MTBs?
12/3/2022 4:59am 29” wheels, and frames strong enough to be ridden on modern trails with 29” wheels are obviously going to be heavier than 27.5” wheels and frames. It seems like many consumers don’t believe or understand that bikes, especially the previous few versions of the carbon Fuel EX, have been woefully underbuilt for real world users for generations. As someone who...
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mickey Added a reply to general Outside+ discussions / topics
11/24/2022 4:02pm Yes, that’s a “prime synergy” Outside Inc wanted to leverage on the NFT portion of their peak late capitalist fever dream, The Outerverse. Insert some indecipherable boilerplate about “earning” things with your gps track that would unlock blockchain enabled something or another, blah blah blah. Also, the BRAIN website hasn’t loaded for me for the last 2 days…
mickey Added a reply to Young guns: Who’s the next Sam Hill?
11/22/2022 8:26am We have a world of kids in the Southeast that are thriving on chasing Dak, Gwinn and Neko Grice and the Shaw’s around the hills. I spend more time than anyone scoring local dh and enduro races. To get into “the pipeline” kids need to be pinned by 14, so managers can watch their 15 year and make plans for...
mfoga Liked a reply to forum topic 2023 TEAM RUMORS
10/13/2022 6:40am
Does more world championships mean a shit ton more money for UCI? Do we need a gravel WC? A pump track ? What’s next? Strider, snow bike? All this but still no Dual Slalom which is probably the most TV ready bike event EVER.
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mickey Added a reply to Lightweight eMTBs = heavier MTBs?
9/29/2022 2:58pm So a 32ish pound bike with a 52 rear cog and a potential 63.5 degree head angle is heavy? Last time i checked a bike needs to weigh at least 32 pounds to survive even 10 minutes of modern, brutal trail riding. Good brakes and survivable 29” wheels aren’t light. If you can actually survive a ride on a 28...
mickey Added a comment about video SQUIDS in the USA - Burke Mountain EWS
8/12/2022 8:16am
That’s shakedown day dawggie
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mickey Added a reply to 2023 TEAM RUMORS
8/12/2022 5:20am Dave, oligarchs using family foundation money to build trails isn’t a “return of corporate sponsorship” though- of the walton owned properties that have been brought in to sponsor stuff(like last year’s Walmart Cyclocross worlds in Ar), When they do engage in sponsorship, it’s meaningless. qwik trip, Intelligentsia, Moosejaw- all properties owned by walton’s that have been title sponsors of cycling...
lawn dart Liked a reply to forum topic WC DH Racing's Future is Uncertain, Can We Do Anything To Stabilize It?
7/16/2022 7:21am
"It's the Bike Parks (not the bikes), Stupid" First off: I'm not sure this is a real problem. Honestly, I'm not. Can manufacturers afford DH even if they're not selling a ton of downhill bikes? Maybe? What's it been... almost ten years that enduro bikes have been capable of handling most gravity and bike park terrain? And, because they are also rideable on local trails, who wouldn't want them, instead of the, "two-bike solution"? This is even more the case now that eBikes are taking over. They're just enduro bikes with a battery. But downhill racing is SO COOL: And...
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mickey Added a comment about news story Discovery / Warner Bros / Eurosport Talking About Covering the World Cup 2023-2030
6/15/2022 4:46am
I see lots of rage here, but not enough directed toward gravel racing. Remember that the bicycle industry doesn’t actually like mtb racing any more- and that the brands are wasting tons of money on big dumb corporate gravel stuff. Mtb does kinda need a savior right now- the Outside behemoth is far too focused on “Participation Based Cycling” to do anything for real mtb racing. All this hate towards the “new guys” when there is already plenty of invective that should be funneled toward the most recent media roll-up. This forum is almost all Americans. Let’s complain about our...
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mickey Added a reply to EWS Coverage & the overall ROI for companies sponsoring enduro racers
6/8/2022 6:09am Going Racing is almost never “worth it”, but it is always worthwhile. Fielding a race program is about the Values, not the “ROI” racing brings to a brand. Racing at an EWS venue during the same time period as the marquee event is open to just about anyone with the desire to experience top-level enduro racing. Like the NORBA series...
profro Liked a reply to forum topic EWS Coverage & the overall ROI for companies sponsoring enduro racers
6/8/2022 5:44am
Maybe ask Downhill Southeast how they do it?
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mickey Added a comment about news story FINAL RESULTS - Tennessee DH National
3/12/2022 6:10am
good catch guys- I just logged in and changed that out. Looking at reg data, Dak pre-registered before the IFR announcement. At Zone4(the timing vendor) we import data from BikeReg.
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mickey Added a comment about press release Alloy, 135mm-travel, 27.5-inch wheels - The New Airdrop Filter
3/9/2022 3:44pm
Let us yankees buy them, please!
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mickey Added a comment about photo Zalen Harmon
3/2/2022 4:26pm
8 years old!
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mickey Added a comment about photo Bailey McLure
3/2/2022 4:18pm
He's from like two miles away from me and I forgot to correct you, sorry!
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mickey Added a comment about photo Interbike 2005 Throwback
2/18/2022 3:35pm
Splinters still are the most planted feeling bikes I ever raced. Macheeeeeen
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JulioValiente Liked a reply to forum topic No Vaccine, No Lourdes World Cup for Racers?
1/25/2022 5:05am
Off topic: Americans are weird. Whenever this topic comes up it's always some American that regurgitates these talking points. I know that generalization hits a lot of good folk out there but, wow - you guys have a serious problem on your hands. Flatlander over here isn't even a rare exception. He's just one of the few that accidentally found himself outside the imaginary world he and his fellow bubble dwellers live in. On topic: France is outside of the imaginary world the new breed of American conservatives have created. More power to them. Push bike athletes should not be...
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mickey Added a reply to No Vaccine, No Lourdes World Cup for Racers?
1/20/2022 4:32pm Reading this while taking a shit after a LONG day building pumptracks in florida. Why was it so long? Millennial anti-intellectual un vaccinated pseudo libertarian co-workers are all fuvking useless with Sars Cov19, all the un-boosted members of our team are all down for the count right now. As a former mid-20’s libertarian douche i am sympathetic, but BROSEPHS: science...
Lucent Liked a reply to forum topic No Vaccine, No Lourdes World Cup for Racers?
1/20/2022 4:21pm
Cant' remember the last time there was a Polio, Tetanus, Measles, Rubella etc. global pandemic.
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Velia Prost Liked a reply to forum topic 2022 Mountain Bike Team Rumors
1/8/2022 11:58am
Thought this was team rumours? Barrelli is not racing? Drinking wine and bucking him self of shit. Who cares what he is on……
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