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to me it looks more like MotoGP bikes controls. How top athletes like Bruni process information at the speed they're going is pretty nuts!

Sorry, wrong study, but acute damage is not what's worrying anyways, you typically can still function after long day of riding right? This is the right study and I will repost the right link in the first post too.https://www.napier.ac.uk/-/media/worktribe/output-1822898/elite-mountai…

I struggled with arm pump for years racing motocross but have never suffered actual arm pump on a mountain bike. Arm pump where you cannot pull the clutch lever enough to shift gears. Coming down the hill at Glen Helen moto 2 at 4pm is a come to Jesus moment when you have real arm pump. As I got older I paid more attention to my body position, technique, and strength training rather than just pinning it everywhere trying to beat the kid that had the nicer motorhome so my dad wouldn't hit me with the pit broom lol. Bar...

It's only telemetry if it comes from the telemetry region of France; otherwise it's just sparkling data acquisition. But actually: If the data being collected aren't also being transmitted, it isn't telemetry.

teamrobot set a record for forum thumbs up, so here's a preview of what's to come (unlisted, only for the special people in this forum topic) regarding taking out pawls and testing ochain.

Telemetry is the new dampening.

The rules around this seem very ambiguous (or people at the UCI aren't clear on what telemetry actually is). By the letter of the rules it seems fine but I know Nick at Downamics/MucOff Younguns has inquired several times about running our data acquisition systems (which have no transmission ability) for race runs and has been refused. It's now a situation where you can run electronic suspension which collects data AND acts on it while not being able to just collect data. Feels a bit inconsistent to me.

A couple thoughts: First I don't think the race format and the broadcast has anything to do with the audience.. The problem is not the engagement or the retention but the awareness.. There are just not enough people aware of the sports and the athletes... hiding the final behind a paywall on only one platform is never going to help.. I would reckon the finals should be available for free on YouTube and everywhere possible with tons of highlights, shorts, memes, and whatnot then maybe WB could try to monetize for behind-the-scenes, exclusive content, live content, replay of all categories...

B Practice from Poland is live! We start with Dak breaking down the highs and lows of his weekend and what happened in that darn left turn. As always, he's got some rad insight into his headspace when things don't go exactly to plan.

Not magically, but maybe with 10 years of hard work, developing your race craft, etc you can get there. https://www.rootsandrain.com/rider63964/dakotah-norton/results/filters/… If the last 10 years was limited to just the top 20 or 30 guys racing, I don't see how Dak gets to where he is today.

I don't think there's an issue with the cameras, sure commenting could be better, and season schedule and venues could be distributed more globally. These are all things that take a lot of logistics and training on to make better, which (fingers crossed) will come. My big concern is access and hype about this. Very limited numbers of official videos on youtube before/ during a race weekend for any MTB sport these days, and wtf is up with viewing access to the races? Most of the positive experiences with WBD seem to be coming from Americans who have Max, but...

Especially at an outfit as pro as Trek Factory Racing…red tape navigation and staying current with all the boring shit has gotta be on day one of team camp, right? I love any Romanian actually named Vlad, and I enjoyed R.Warner saying it. He’d kind of run it together vlaDASKaloo. I seem to remember Dascalu reminding everyone that he pumped higher watts than MvDP after a race though—xc / road racers are among the most desperate/ insecure men on this planet, but it stood out to me like dude are we talkin bout practice??? whatever. Whereabouts Failures is a great...

Hit the nail on the head with the last paragraph. Viewers/riders/fans/whatever you call them were far more tolerant of mistakes errors and missteps from the RBTV coverage as it was free. By charging for it, WB by default has set the expectation that there is a certain level of quality that needs to be delivered if they expect people to pay money for it.

IMO the hate towards Warner Bros/ Discovery/ the UCI is completely warranted. They took a reasonable product from RedBull that was FREE, added a paywall, started dismantling and taking apart the sport we love and seem content to just throw out crappy coverage. They are not following through with promises to grow the sport and cutting the numbers of riders is only going to reduce the prospects for future talent - would Ronan be winning this w/e if racing as a privateer back then (2021) was as difficult as it is now...? I haven't watched since the first free semi...

I think one thing that has worked against them is that they have made a lot of noise and claims about how they are improving things and growing the sport. They have then fallen short on promises made on numerous occasions. From what I remember RB never got into the habit of blowing their own trumpet, instead they just got on with providing great coverage of WC events, alongside bringing ground breaking events such as Rampage and Hardline. Don't talk the talk if you can't (or won't) walk the walk.

The coverage is only part of the issues with UCI/WBD Enduro is being sidelined, geographic spread of events is shocking, rider numbers are being cut, privateers being priced out of racing, etc.. I'm in Scotland and ESO bought out our national series then canned it without explanation, and have ignored any questions about it. The Tweed Valley EWS round had a five year contract in place with landowners and they canned that after two years. They also screwed local riders by halting a major trail development to run the XC World Champs on the site, then bulldozed what they'd built...

Upside to "this economy" is there should be some deals to be had. Hopefully they bought the brand for pennies on the dollar and can make good on its future potential.

The other site is reporting that the original owners of Kona have bought the company back from Kent Outdoors. I'd love to know what they sold/bought back for. Nice to see a good news story in the current climate.

I don't think it's coincidence that Charles Murray is racing the SJ Evo instead of the Enduro. My son is about to make the same call to move from a Capra to a Jeffsy (which he will coil and overfork to beef it a bit). He was with GT previously, and he was going to move from a Force to a Sensor (coiled and overforked) this season before moving to YT. More and more racers seem to be moving away from the biggest and burliest bikes on all but the gnarliest tracks. Even then... there's so much more time to...