All

new #USDH team! sure hope to see more! BGR Mondraker/Ohlins Team Announced Saint Charles, IA - BGR Mondraker/Ohlins is pleased to announce a two-rider team focusing on the Monster Energy Pro Downhill Series Championship. Downhill racers Kallie Stewart and Carson Morgan join team manager Clint Mongan for the team’s inaugural season in 2025. Kallie Stewart is fresh off a Monster Energy DH championship in the 15-16 Cat 1 girls class and will be making the jump to the Pro Class in 2025. “I’m really excited to have the best people and brands in my corner for this important part of...

I host "The World's Okayest Mountain Bike Podcast" - it's pretty casual. Clean. We try to cover universal mtb topics when we can, but do have a lot of Midwest/Missouri content. When we do nerd out, it gets downright philosophical.

maybe riders/teams chasing points to get a wildcard spot for world cup race? a win at crankworx is 60 points ( equivalent of 13th at at world cup) plus exposure from being broadcast on Red Bull.

One not mentioned I listen to is Front Lines MTB, a podcast solely focused on advocacy for trail access... or in their words: " A Podcast for the people that truly make mountain biking happen. Not the riders, racers, or product designers but the builders, advocates and the often forgotten Board Members of your local Mountain Bike Trail Association."

Purely anecdotal, but as someone connected in both the climbing and mountain biking communities, in the past decade I personally know 4 people that have sustained spinal injuries while climbing (specifically, all from bouldering falls) but 0 people from mountain biking, despite being and hanging out with a bunch of bike part rats. Thing is, these are inherently risky hobbies. There are choices we can personally make to manage and limit those risks. But isn't the lack of guardrails what makes these things exciting, fulfilling? So much in our lives is safe, sterile, boring. Unless we seek out the things...

I think the risks of a sever injury crashing are under estimated because most of the time you are fine. Little scrape here or something and move on. I have also seen people increasingly push their own boundaries into things they are not capable of doing with reasonable expectation of success. Basically if they don't crash it's luck not skill. I don't think warning's like you get on a pack of cig's is the answer. Shocking I think people need to take responsibility for their own level of risk tolerance. If you can't tell that the possibility of hitting a...

Escape Collective (reincarnation of Cycling Tips which was bought and then burnt by Outside) has some mtb tech (mostly XC end but do touch on all the mtb tech other than DH maybe) in their Geek Warning weekly pod (out Fridays). Brad Copeland (most recently Kate Courtney’s mechanic) is there (almost) every episode to bring the mtb expertise. There might be some other podcasts from them for those interested in performance / physiology side of riding (some might be behind paywall - yearly subscription to EC). In the same vein, Silca’s marginal gains. Very much on the performance side of...

The difference between the 2 is that Red Bull's events are private events, organised, produced & broadcast by them. They can invite whoever they want, no one can argue otherwise. WBD are organising World Cups on behalf of the UCI, the world governing body for competitive cycling events. They should be completely neutral & the only way to be free from bias/influence is to go off points for all teams. Personal opinion... I don't agree with handing control of the highest level of a sport to a TV production company to shape it how they want. I think I might've...

Happy to make the list with OTB, it's all still a learning experience and a side project for me. Always interested to hear what people are enjoying though!

And in my opinion, this is the problem. It's going to come down to personal opinion & relationships & that's not a fair way to run a sport.

I fear it's going to be a shitstorm when it comes to WBD allocating those wildcard spots. To my mind it should be teams ranked 15-20 (surely that's the fairest way?), but I doubt it will be that simple. I can see WBD jumping through a lot of hoops to get their preferred teams/riders in.

It’s their total of Uci points including national champs, euro champs etc not just World Cup points