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I'll be surprised if Jackson still shows up while leading the WC overall.

It was the net, not the tape. You can see he's well BELOW the tape (and upside down) here, then his bike fell against the tape and pushed it down towards him, but it was still against his back/above him.

Seems they intend to make the USB-C port at the seat clamps, so that eliminates one issue...

Spectator's race summary from Val di Sole: Good - Insane race, and the venue was electric from Brosnan's run till the afterparty died sometime around 4am. - Course-taping was great to keep the track safer and more interesting. VDS is an A+ venue to watch lines most of us can only dream about (ex tripling into a steep braking zone), so many interesting sections to check out and see how the riders could make the most awkward looking section fast as F$#%. Can't believe some of the hits that people's wheels survived. 10/10 recommend going if you're within 6hrs drive...

A couple of things that have come up for me regarding courses and rider safety. I'm always saddened to see a rider injured. When it's someone as fast and high profile as Amaury Pierron the situation brings a lot of attention from fans, although this stuff probably happens more than many of us realize. AMBA just signed our contract with US Forest Service for a series of DH trails here, so some of this stuff is at the front of my mind. USFS separates "hazards" from "risk". That pile of logs and branches just off the trail is a good...

I see both sides of the safety issue, it indeed is a sport based on risk... My day job is commercial construction management, safety is a huge part of the job. Safety is like anything, it can easily go too far... I for one, watch the streams and am sometimes mortified by a few conditions that seem needlessly unsafe. Most of it is small stuff like having provisions for if/when a rider were to ride off the side of a huge wooden drop/ramp. To not have the area just off course at least evaluated and had a once over, is...

First, all the best to Amaury in his recovery. Such bad luck lately, but I am sure he will be back when everything is healed and still will be riding bikes better than anyone else. I agree to some extent that the courses should be as safe as possible, but honestly there is so little that can be done. DH racing is a very dangerous sport, and WC riders take the biggest risks. Someone goes flying out of control head first almost at every race weekend, and as @bizutch said we can't expect every rock or stump gets padded. It...

I still think there are way too many points for semi’s. I don’t like the fact you can win the race, but if you didn’t have a great semi you might not come out with the most points in the strongest position. It’s more like a 2 stage mini enduro than a one run for all the glory race like it should be. I love the fact there is more to watch as I just like watching racing, but it all being in one day caused me problems, I can’t commit that many hours (family) in one go and as...

As someone mentioned, this format seems ok at best on a short track like we had, but when we get to longer tracks like fort Bill, or worse weather, or gnarlier tracks, things could get out of hand really quick. With any luck, there will be adjustments made throughout the season if needed and we wont see too many injuries. I tend to remember lots of injuries at the first race, but I can't tell if that's because there's more or I just remember them better...

"I’ll probably only watch finals live and watch semis sometime I can’t sleep at night. I think more racing will make for a dramatic overall and more opportunities for people to shine." This part is contradictory & you're basically saying semi-finals is too boring to bother with in anything other than "highlight" format. Rather watch ALL 60 come down from beginning to end in a single rip with tension slowly building rider by rider to the fastest qualifier. In the past, the #1 complaint was we would miss Bruni or Gwin or Amaury or Danny have some blistering morning run...