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I do a local Enduro with a night stage every year, it's fun and gets rowdy - though the lighting is pretty minimal and more for spectators so riders use lights. I think it was last year they ran the same stage during the daytime and the top guys were only a couple seconds slower at night so I wouldn't expect the pros to be going slow. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAwyGiER9YF/?igsh=ZHljZTR2N2J4ajc1

The night stage could be cool.

I'll say it again, the top eight junior women would have qualified for elite women's finals in Val di Sole. All the junior women that have been interviewed are upset they weren't given the option to choose their line and wanted to hit the road gap. Why do we believe that junior men are capable of making their own choices, but junior women aren't?

"2. Closing a feature to a single group of contestants alone is wrong. Build a course that is rideable for everyone! Also junior woman." Can't get behind this take. The difference in ability between elite men and junior women is massive.They should instead make a more interesting B-line than just a wooden ramp to the side, should make it more enjoyable for the riders.

I raced the EWS in La Thuile 9 years ago!!! The loam was really good, the dirt was also amazing. It seemed to have less clay content that what you find at lots of race venues in the alps so there was grip even in the moist areas. The fresh grass and heather was tough to race on. That Slayer proto was also tough to race on as the A-S and A-R numbers were aggressively high but that didn't seem to faze Florian Nicolai later on when he got a frame. This shot was from practice day as you need...

I’m stoked for this one. I think we are in for a truly iconic track. The trail crew clearly put a lot of passion into making it sweet, and they got a lot of rider input which I think is important because the riders play the biggest role in the narrative of the weekend. If everyone is hyped about the track, the overall vibe is good. It also looks dumb steep.

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!

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. 🤣