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Lance_h Liked a bike check Chromag Surface Titanium
8/30/2018 10:37am
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scarface Liked a comment about video LUDICROUS LA BRESSE - Vital RAW World Cup Downhill
8/23/2018 5:41pm
you look boring
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Kiwifruit Liked a reply to forum topic Little Black Book (of bikes) | Can you remember all your mountain bikes?
8/9/2018 4:58pm
First time I've ever posted on vital or any forum for that matter. But I can't resist the temptation. Bought my first bike 2nd hand in 1998 as a student. An Avanti hardtail. Had it for two years then got a good job which enabled an obsession with bikes to be realised. 20 years later and I need a bigger shed. Every bike was purchased 2nd hand. Normally I pulled them all down and rebuilt them with a variety of parts preferred parts on hand. I rode/ride them all, although admittedly some only a couple of times before selling on...
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Foes Racing Liked a bike check First Generation FXR in Team Red Rider Robert O.
8/8/2018 8:48am
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Nozes Added a comment about video DH COURSE POV - 2018 U.S. Open of Mountain Biking
8/3/2018 1:21am
and slick.
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grundletroll Liked a comment about video First Look at the 2018 Mont-Sainte-Anne DH Track Changes
7/28/2018 3:29pm
natural trails that only required a minimal amount of clearing and grooming are the way to go. all my favorite trails are natural and raw no bike park crap
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onenerdykid* Liked a comment about video First Look at the 2018 Mont-Sainte-Anne DH Track Changes
7/28/2018 3:29pm
Not trying to be a negative Nancy, but instead of busting out the excavator, how about just cutting some sweet natural lines through the trees & using the awesome natural terrain that MSA is legendary for? Either way, MSA is one the best venues of the season and it's going to be a sick race!
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Nozes Added a comment about bike check Giant Trance 2 LTD "Nozes Edition" ...mullet?!
7/28/2018 9:53am
Took some time,but I came to the same conclusion
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Simão Oliveira Liked a bike check Proflex 953 - Generation 4
7/28/2018 7:06am
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iceman2058 Liked a comment about bike check Proflex 953 - Generation 4
7/28/2018 7:06am
Bike of the Day July 28, 2018!
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TheDeadSailor
7/22/2018 10:23am Please do not dumb down northstar or the CES even more. Getting crazy or pushing the limits is exactly how you progress the sport and people's ability. That's why we have enduro now. Our bikes are so good and better than the DH bikes of 10 years ago that a lot of these tracks were designed for. Top riders aren't stoked to race places like toro. China Peak and Northstar keep things interesting because they are so challenging(and completely rideable at slower speeds). Downieville and Ashland are arguably more dangerous than Northstar because the buff trails and lack of true...
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Heath Sherratt
7/21/2018 2:40pm Wow, I literally composed an email to CES organizers, Northstar and Erik Saunders about this exact thing. Stiks, I said the same thing about the late 90's Norba issues citing it as the beginning of the decline of DH in America. I'm glad Mitch spoke up, he knows the difference between gnarly and stupid. Getting crazy to get crazy is not the way to grow the sport. There's a better way to improve attendance and grow the sport and that's the next step in putting on races. Places like Downieville and Ashland have natural trails that are ridable at slow...
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Stiksandstones
7/21/2018 9:20am EWS is going through a NORBA late 90's crisis, where each track tried to out do the next and ultimately removed the fun, became a test of balls---it seems anyway, from sitting in my living room
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Nozes Added a comment about slideshow Gone Too Far? Enduro World Series, La Thuile
7/21/2018 3:04am
Great to hear Mitch's take on this kind of track. Yeah we all love to see the best in the world being challenged,but track design is going too far many times IMO. Not a problem for most of us,but the enduro bike development is getting far from all-mountain and it's now on park/mini-DH territory. No one I know is willing to pedal a 170mm,38lb 29er.
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sspomer Liked a comment about Feature 14mph Uphill! Vital's First Ride on the New 2019 Trek Powerfly LT
7/20/2018 3:58pm
the first sentence of the article says "trek invited us to mammoth." i feel that's pretty transparent. like grambo mentioned, they hosted us. this is a long-time practice in any industry unveiling a new product for editorial consideration. additionally trek is NOT a current advertiser on our site. this may not be obvious unless you're really paying attention to the ads on our site. despite that lack of support from trek, we still used our own time and resources to attend their camp because we wanted to ride their new product (specifically the "updated products" also mentioned in the first...
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obygobywanoby Liked a comment about Feature 14mph Uphill! Vital's First Ride on the New 2019 Trek Powerfly LT
7/20/2018 3:53pm
I'm all for e-bikes if the rider has some sort of injury, disability, or any other legitimate reason that makes the e-bike his or her only option to get out there and rip some trails. But all I see on my local trails (which are closed to e-bikes) are completely healthy and young looking riders on e-bikes who are just too lazy to pedal uphill under their own power. And more often than not their trail etiquette is completely lacking... full Jerry mode.
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banj Liked a comment about Feature KS Lev Dropper Goes 27.2
7/9/2018 9:51am
Ummm, hasn't KS had a 27.2mm Lev for years? Pretty sure I have an old one in my shop somewhere that never worked very well. Maybe I'm wrong and it was a different KS model.
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Victorise Liked a comment about Press Release Indiegogo Campaign Launches for EyeCo
7/2/2018 6:58am
@Tristan_Mayor: well I'm sure you got the heads-up part ;-) the colored light is the display! but I understand where you are coming from. You heard Heads up display and you think, numbers, text and image, like in science fiction movie (Iron Man, Minority Report), video games or fighter jets! It was our initial intent but we realized that we did want to ride with some text/ numbers under the eyes. After testing, a colored light appeared to be significant enough (everybody understand, red=bad, green-good) without keeping eyes out of focus from where you are going! There is way to...
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