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Athertons just posted this, the irony speaks for itself. I’ll happily move this to tech thread

Ordered myself a STFU for my trail bike. Because World Cup. That Williams hub silencer looks cool.

Sram bought out ochain.

this makes no sense to me. what happens during cautions and red flags in other racing sports? competitive advantages are often lost by those out front. there was significant interference on the track. she deserves a re-run if she protested (which it sounds like she did). before the "pedestrian" she could have the run of her life at the bottom and earned another spot or two at the bottom earning 5 or 10 additional points. they all add up. if this was an olympic run, would there be a re-run? 100%. UCI claims to be olympic-level racing.

Rick cut Neko off a few times, which he did with Gwin, too. That seemed to zap Neko's energy.

Isn't this a valid justification for a rerun?

Agreed. Hats off to him for noting Dapréla “won’t take no for an answer.”

windrock stacking up with commencal muc-off in attendance along w/ Trek, jewett's and others. can't wait!

By my calculations (could be wrong), 18 of the top 20 ranked teams earned their "spot" fair and square. It was only Cube and Yeti, ranked 20th and 21st who got wildcard spots instead of the slightly higher ranked teams of Rouge Racing and Goodman Santa Cruz. Tough times, but alot of stacked teams in there none the less

WHOOP THERE IT IS

Huh. I always thought it said ‘Don’t post to Vital’.

no way will 32 be for anything except XC or gravel, right? please? pretty please? make it stop?

oli clark on ms racing

If I remember correctly, it was Kalle Nicolai and Horst Leitner who invented the horst link and patented it, and Horst Leitner got the patent for America, and Europe was kept for Nicolai to do whatever. Leitner got into a money squeeze and sold his patents to Specialized and European brands could do whatever but sell their bikes in the US - up until the patent expired and several European brands were starting distribution in North America (Canyon amongst others). And the invention/patents predates EU.