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I've been working on getting a mini-enduro network built in Meredith, NH, USA. I first went to a conservation commission meeting to gauge interest, and also contacted 2 local NEMBA chapters to see if they would support it. I had briefly considered just building the trails illegally, but it's pretty close to houses and town, so it was a bit too risky, and likely to be shut down, ruining any chances or good will later on. The commission was all retirees, so they were a bit skeptical, but thankfully the chair of the commission is himself a mountain biker, so...

And the financial reward for hyper-specialization of fancy doctors vs. minimal payout for GP's and pediatricians. If we can make $600k a year on heart or vascular surgery that's great, but heaven forbid we provide good consistent health care to that same patient for the first 55 years of their life. How is a GP ever supposed to pay off $400k in high interest student debt when they make $93k a year? Not saying it's impossible to pay that off, but if you're smart enough to be a GP you're damn sure smart enough to make 3x that money with...

I've long wondered why jrs are only in gravity racing but the delineation is u23 for xc and road.

Who is that guy and why does he look so disappointed in his bike?

Even if we bring a large amount of manufacturing back to the States, I don't think that Americans are willing to change their spending habits. I assume most things that would transition from foreign to US made would see an increase in price, and at the end of the day I doubt your average American is will to pay more for the same product simply because it US made (assuming its the same quality). So either the corporations producing these products would either need to accept smaller margins (I assume they wont), the product will be of lesser quality, and/or...

While every 13 year old boy has a butt drawing bench, butting draw benches are rare. Shame. these seem to be the fundamental flaws in the Make American Manufacturing Great Again echo chamber. The equipment isn’t here to do it. This is true not only with metal, but textiles too. 15 ish years ago I recall learning from a moderate sized fancy technical clothing company how they would love to do production stateside, but the equipment is all in Taiwan and China. Domestic manufacturing wasn’t even an option for them. Nor were the raw materials (including plants and animals) needed...

Dedacai will draw you 6061 over in Italy if you order about 3000 pounds worth. They don’t have any stock profiles that would work well for your bikes though, so you’d be on the hook for mandrels for each tube. As i’m sure you know, a butting mandrel is spun up on a lathe to precise tolerances, and it’s usually paired with a forming die, so tooling for new mandrel butted cold formed tubes is also pretty dang expensive… When Sapa was still around, and the facility in CT was still around, you basically had every mandrel and die the...

Kids ebikes. The end if nigh.

Using weed based composites in vehicle production is nothing new, they were doing it years ago. 🤣

An EXTREMELY simplified explanation of why video gets blurred: The more detail in an image, the more data is required to describe that image. There's a limit to how much data cameras can capture in real time, how much they can send in "real time," how much broadcasters can send in "real time," how much internet service providers can receive and send in "real time," and how much your TV provider can send in "real time." The downstream folks tell the upstream folks how much they can handle. The on-site broadcast is assembled in real-time and sent to the folks...

Good to see Jackson using those run bike skills.

Havnt watched 4x in a while, that shit is rapid fire! Crankworks could take a note, I dont need rider bios or how much air Bas is putting in his minion ss tires. Just show me racing!

They were filming XCC instead.

IMO these are after the moto crowd, not MTB. And, bike prices are only going up.