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I'm at Leogang this weekend and wanted to get a sense of how widely pedal kickback devices have been adopted by World Cuppers, along with all the other wild accessories like TMD's/shakeweights, electronics, gearboxes, and more. So out of curiosity and as a service to my fellow nerds, I stood at the top of Q1 today and counted all the devices I could. Note that certain devices were almost certainly undercounted, like shakeweights, added mass, and fancy chainring devices like Ochain or Rimpact (drivetrains were facing away from me in the starting lineup). There were 20 bikes total where I...

Gwin some boy with the little program he's on to be right up there is rad. Faster than some top dudes on big teams oldest guy out there too.

Got some reactions following todays Q2 session here.

ESO is the organizer. If they can’t introduce a venue that they choose and produce a race then what are these teams paying them for. Yeah if the lift was down or there is severe enough weather at the time. But mud? These guys cancelled a mtb race at the highest level for mud because of bad planning. It’s their literal job to work with the local organizations to have a all weather track so teams don’t pay them and fly across the world to not race. Red Bull never was in charge of medical. But they were pretty instrumental...

I see Wyn’s reason for anger. Didn’t he fight as a privateer to move and up where he is now? He wants others to have the same opportunity not have mommy and daddy buy spots on teams. He IMO has done more good for the sport of late than anyone else. So yiu know Im going to continue to believe he if fighting a fight he feels is right and not just an old man yelling get off my lawn.

I assume you're referring to Kate Mason. She used to work for Sky TV and host The Football Ramble podcast for them. It proved unpopular and she lost the gig. She puts this down to sexism, but I have to say the more I listen to her the more I doubt that. She's now entering her 3rd year in the job and as far as I can see she knows no more about the sport now than she did when she asked Nina Hoffman if she'd be wearing the rainbow stripes to the bar that night (after Nina had won...

I am glad improvements have been made to the broadcast and we are at the very least seeing things go in the RIGHT direction, coming from arguably quite a low point. But at the same time I forgive any rider for having outright ill intentions towards the new organization considering WHAT WE HAD... And what we have now. I'm not saying they should have had their shit together day one, but they really dropped the... BALL from the start. And have absolutely crawled their way towards what you may call an okay or acceptable production. All while making cuts/changes and...

My favourite anecdote on the pricing that I tell people is that, 25 years ago in Eastern Europe, I paid 1K for a brand new Marzocchi Z1 Bam, which is exactly as much as I would pay for the current top of the line Zeb Ultimate. And there is more to compare, but the point is, we are quite lucky actually compared to other areas in life where things have gone through the roof (housing,...). It is not the cheapest sport, but what we can get these days for the money, the abuse it will withstand, and the fun you...

The UCI & WBD/TNT are trying to change the HISTORY of our sport. Fokk them. Announced Tahnee's record of podiums and cut it by half. They're trying to remove the 5 man/woman podium from OUR record books. I'm done. World Cup racers & teams are cowards if they let it happen.

Regarding " And we are losing people perfectly capable of winning the race on race day from participating..." this one is interesting to me. If they are perfectly capable of winning on race day, then they are surely capable of qualifying for one of the 30 spots. A few other people have expressed the same opinion "but we are losing some of the fast guys now..." which seems to imply that the new qualifying format is somehow putting some of the fast guys at a disadvantage? I think there's definitely a generational shift going on, and many of the riders...

They have. I also have no issue with it. I think full runs was a mistake from a broadcast point of view. When you watch a f1 race you don’t watch the pov camera of every racer back to back. When you watch supercross, football, basketball (even in person in the stadium) you miss some action live. Now that doesn’t mean you don’t need the cameras for the whole course for highlights, replays, and the last 5 riders. But 2 hrs of guys on the same line at barely a diffirent pace was not a good show. So then the...

I annoyingly just thought of a better meme:

How about Ryan Pinkerton into 6th and 11th at Poland. 2nd year Elite, checkers or wreckers last year but seems to have matured a ton this year and throws down fast but in control runs. If he stays healthy it seems like he could be a consistent threat

Sleeper Co shredit out yet? Killing a few minutes at lunch.

I'm 99% sure that the drone shots are fully added sound, including the drone sounds. I don't get it, because drone sounds are annoying, but when paying attention to it specifically, the pitch changes are not related to the angle or speed of the drone, and "pulses" at similar intervals each run. I know I'm no longer really the market for the broadcast, and it probably works well when heard over the din of a cycling cafe, but I would rather just silence or some wind noise :/

That's the real kicker. The situation was bad enough as is. But being, essentially, right after a junior being DQd for being seconds? late... A minute? How late was he... How can you be so inconsistent? Also, dunno if people already talked about it but Gracey's run needs to be remembered as one of the greatest come back runs in womens DH history. She was DEAD LAST at split 1. By the finish line, she was over 3 up. She gained OVER SIX SECONDS, in all the hardest parts of the track. Against an in-form Vali Holl (who was P1...