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Practice day on Saturday. Race on Sunday. Having the races on Saturday means you have to take off work at least all of Friday unless you know the course. So if you want to make it more accessible, or encourage people to travel to new places, not having to take days off work is a great place to start.

Bike park only events that are expensive. Lack of fresh cut courses. Showing up to an event with some taped sections is the best.

Came to the same conclusions after testing 10+ e-bikes on trails around Alps. But for me it’s not only the weight but the power itself. I kinda enjoyed full power as a novelty and also see its potential in winter (snow/mud) but for consistent/normal riding it is simply too fast. Mid power is just enough to make the climbing easier enough for me but I am not climbing at such intense speed that it takes away the meditative nature of an uphill journey. And then on the way down it feels pretty much exactly as a normal bike. Perhaps slightly...

I've been grabbing the charts from here: https://ebike-mtb.com/en/emtb-motor-comparison/ that use power draw vs. output. Then I feed the charts in to ChatGPT to get an average efficiency. It's worth noting that the Mahle derated when 250w rider input was put in, so even though it shows the highest efficiency, it was tested with only 200w input so is maybe an outlier. It appears that they are going from most efficient to least efficient. These efficiency's matter because if you need to add a bash guard and more battery size to equal meters climbed and protection, that's a more true measure...

To each his own. The good news is that in the next 5 years, I imagine we’ll have full power/full range batteries that are close to what a Relay weighs. For those who want more of a motorless experience, they can detune their bikes; anyone who wants more power can have it. We’re going to have our cake and eat it too in no time.

That guy continues to strive for the asshole of the year award. Any validity of his opinion has been removed by that kneepad/short gap and that’s even before we talk about his “low IQ” dismissal of everyone who dares to disagree with him 😂

ENHANCE!

RAAW just dropped updates to the Madonna and the Jibb LT with interchangeable dropouts for more adjustability: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/raaw-updates-jibb-lt-and-ma… .

Jett to Frameworks

i think it's time that you guys start a new dedicated "i hate BK" thread. would spare us all of that nonsense, thx

well, two riders left Pivot, so maybe the focus can be put towards Maples who could possibly get a ok salary there. But yes, i wish he had got a place at Scott or Frameworks or Commencal. Find all that BK / pivot hate a bit strange btw. Dude has done a lot for dh mountainbiking since many years and the bike should be good..

I would like to see Brage on the Raaw Yalla. Raaw got way to anonymous riders.

start a new freaking thread if you want to talk about that stuff.