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I agree with your statement: it's mountain bikers who watch mountain biking. I teach in North Vancouver, and I can confirm kids who don't ride, don't care. I will sometimes play an objectively sick bike video (Semenuk, Jackson, Asa, Fairclough, Sleeper edits, etc.) in my class. The sad part? I'm usually the only one who's into it - even on the North Shore, MTB is not mainstream - we are niche and will be niche. With that said, I'm pretty excited about Beyond Gravity and hope that it's a success, showing brands that there is value in supporting riders.

I think the reality is that watching mountain bike racing is only ever primarily going to appeal to mountain bikers . Its a niche within a niche and I dont think that will change . Once you have a corporation like warner bros involved it becomes about growth and i just cant see a time where people who dont ride bikes are specifically tuning in to watch world cup racing , at least in any great numbers . That's why I think something like the beyond race in Tasmania could be a blueprint for the future, give the actual fans...

Would Max Commençal transfer Tilly from one of his teams to the other? With Vali, Lisa Baumann, and Tilly at Commençal Schwalbe he has arguably the strongest group of women of any team. I'd be surprised to see her move over to the Muc-Off team. (She's got one year left in Juniors and I'm assuming she has a contract for a second year, but I don't know that for a fact.)

SuperFan pass purchased. Honestly I’d support this even if I can’t watch it in real time- I don’t have a better way to give to the sport I love. Time to put up or shut up, everyone who wants good racing and supported athletes.

Ella Svegby has shared her battle with anorexia and why she hasn't raced over the last two years, signing off with a planned comeback to racing next season.

This is the weakest team rumours thread ever.

Best guess is that it’s a UCI sanctioned race so riders would have to be at least junior age.

I thought the race was fantastic. I agree it's a weird mix of people talented enough to do the course and people talented enough to race the course and the former category is wildly small. However, the course is so hard, I found every run entertaining and then I was awe-struck whenever one of the racers were able to properly attack it. It really shows how on another level Asa, Jackson (before he fell!), Lachie, and Bernard (basically the only one trying to hang on with the young'uns) are.

Millie just posted a clip of Gracey and Tayte hitting the final jump together with a comment that it unlocked the full course for both of them.

I'm pretty sure Tayte Proulx-Royds is a privateer (rode a Polygon this year). She improved all season while racing Jr's, earned an invitation to Project 17, and is riding hardline this weekend. At just 17, she could be an excellent lower-cost pickup for some teams with lots of upside.

They didn't give us any instruction on that in training. I didn't even shout at them, partly because I was farther away than some spectators and it would have been a lot of yelling. Also, everything just happens faster than you think. This happened just below the grass flat right hander after you come out of the skinny woods. A lot of riders were blowing the rut and hitting poles. The marshals were spaced such that they couldn't see which side of the poles the riders were on, so as sector manager, I walked up there and specifically watched that...