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Hahaha we recorded a fresh B Practice Pod this morning chatting about U.S. Natty Champs, and we talked about the front tire test a bit. I had to give Dak credit for hyping up Vee tires since we all liked the Attack HPL. But turns out he's never ridden that tire and always runs the Attack FSX. Go figure! He said he likes the FSX because it reminds him of a DHR II. Also, the podcast will go live sometime in the next few hours.

The Vermettes recently moved to Cortez from Durango so that they could ride moto year round(like the Tomacs!). According to his dad he doesn’t really do any other training besides riding moto and having fun on his bicycles, he played rec soccer for 12 years, and around the time he quit soccer they started homeschooling him so he has more time for mid-day moto.

On the same topic of fast kids who will be at world cup age next year, keep an eye out for tyler waite and oli clark from nz. Both have done incredibly well in the New Zealand dh scene often challenging or beating times of elite riders. Tyler also managed a clean sweep in pump track, dual slalom and dh at crankworx cairns for u17. They’re gonna have a significant impact on the world cup junior scene most likely

Completely agree with all of this! They're already riding over around 5 days, so a couple of days practice and then a quali day. If weather looking poor for the following day, they run as a race day instead, or even the following day (Sunday). Also agree on the alternative lines, even if just for the two 90 footers and the road gap? Make them technical detours and it would still be awesome to watch with adverse weather.

Hardline is somewhat invite only is it not? Or at least choice riders. No Jr racers and not a couple hundred people on track, and you know what your signing up for with hardline, kind of like Rampage which also has death at every corner. World cup has Jr racers, hundreds of people on track over the weekend and less time to pick apart and practice so shouldn't they be held to a higher standard of safety and course design? It's the top tier of the sport and it should be treated as such. Going back a few years, would...

Bernard Kerr is TEAM ROBOT's consensus 2023 Hardline World Champion for being the first (and only?) one to do a full practice run in those windy and wet conditions, including both 90 foot gaps. Give him the gold medal.

Neko 10th? That's awesome

There are definitely some big names in there, but would have been nice to see 5-10 more. Figured there'd be a lot more than in years past given the new 1199 track, the world cup DH schedule having such a huge break and not enough racing to begin with. I assume it's just too costly for teams to send riders, bikes, mechanics, etc. around the globe for 'just' a Crankworx. That said, I would think North American brands would make a big push to have more riders here. It's also Whistler... would assume most world cup riders would love to...

Super cool to have the Motion Instruments data after trying out Tru Tune to back up your personal impressions. Seems like it really does what it says. Love it.

I was able to test the fork with the tru tune device in the airspring side. You can see the graph below difference in how much more linear the ramp up is. I don’t think this is a perfect fork or it’s necessarily fixed but interesting to see what this device does. A interesting thing to know is that true to recommends 10% or air pressure been previously run without their insert. I found that was way too much, so went back to the same pressure. 76psi stock air side I got 24% dynamic sag and hit about 145mm max...