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Standard dw-link as opposed to dw6, too

Imagine dealing with an employee that's always thinking of retiring but never quite ready to go. Your industry's is then going through a bit of a rough patch and at the end of the season they tell you they are wanting to stay and not retire. Every season up to now it's been fine but this season you have a tighter budget with no wriggle room. What do you do?.

He also would have won if he hadn't flatted in either Andorra or Snowshoe, strongest rider this year by far imo.

Whitely is managing Frameworks now.

No, they do NOT have brake by wire in F1. They have standard hydraulic brakes with no boosters even, like most racecars. The caveat here is they use a Moog valve to modulate (remove) hydraulic pressure from the rear brakes, controlled by the ECU, to feed in the energy recovery and keep the overall braking forces and thus brake balance. Just throwing in energy recovery or removing rear hydraulic brakes would throw the balance front and back wildly and unpredictably. Coincidentally, there have been failures on these systems, causing drivers to spin off the track (balance issues) and the first...

Automotive systems have built in redundancy. The BBW and SBW systems have hydraulic and mechanical backups in case of failure. (I'm a brake controls engineer). True brake by wire, electro-mechanical (EPB's), would still have a secondary redundant power source, possibly even a third, to prevent any 'no brake' scenarios. Wireless braking is sketchy and I'd personally never use it. Always have redundancy.

Just wild speculation here, but at this point in his career he's probably playing the long game. Switching brands just to avoid a cut in salary doesn't seem like it would move the needle. However, starting your own race team and anchoring it at least the first year would set him up long term. With ESOs push to make the sport more "elite", the established teams could become more valuable.

Referring to Minnaar as a guy who “has podiumed” is like saying Jordan is a guy who “scored some points” in the NBA. i think they’d word it different if he really was going that way

I've been calling regular bikes "Naturally asperated" for a couple years but it hasn't caught on yet.

Tacky Chan Super Trail would probably be up your alley if you want a precise tread with minimal/no transition knobs and a supportive casing that still pedals fast.