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That's actually one of my favourite parts. I love the "open" part of Crankworx racing. Pros vs Joes For example, I can say I once beat Cedric Gracia in the Garbo DH back in the day. He had a front flat in the first minute of his run and continued to the bottom on it instead of getting a DNF. I beat him (by less than a minute). Truly the pinnacle of my otherwise inauspicious racing career.

You misspelled Asa. My dude Asa will be taking overall and hardline this year.

On top of the fact that most aged cheese has bugger all lactose, you can readily purchase tablets which contain the enzymes needed to break down lactose. You literally just pop one before your cheese orgy and you’re all g. The lady is actually lactose intolerant and does this on the regs. I actually had a cheese hangover going into 2026, was brutal.

I highly doubt amflow will stay popular unless they release a different bike soon. The motor/battery is good, but the bike itself is a stumpjumper knockoff from temu. I was not impressed with the one I tried. It's laughable that they're priced higher than a forbidden e druid (which is a much, much better bike). The teewing flux also looks vastly superior in terms of geo and kinematics to the amflow, but we will see how their production quality and detail work gets on.

Crankworx DH, World Cup DH, and (hopefully) Hardline BC would make for an all time summer of race viewing in southern BC

More excited about this than pretty much anything else in 2026. I hope they announce it soon so I can book it off. Probably more excited about that than the World Cup stop in Whistler...

Hardline British Columbia

Id love to see the big brands offer after sale support. Imagine buying a Stumpy, then having a direct line to all Spec parts - wheels, saddles, etc.

1. Vali and Gracey are neck and neck all year. My CDN heart wants Gracey to win, but Vali doesn't fold and wins again. 2. It's not even close. Jackson smokes the field. 3. Very few new bikes are sold. Tell me how you convince a guy with a 22 Hightower (just an example), that a new bike is going to change his world.

Rob Warner does a genealogy test, figures out he's actually one of the Warner Brothers, saves World Cup DH from itself

Not perhaps a 2026 but more long term. Bike brands are going to aim for much simpler line ups. Right now it's 1-2 ebikes and 4(ish, very ish) normal bikes (showing my bias). Hardtail. Race, Trail, Enduro. But I don't think we'll see 4 ebikes from a brand? So then is it going to be economic to still carry all the pedal bikes or do you go for just a couple??

Trek finally releases the Ticket S that every pro has been on for the last 8 years. Aluminum becomes the hot material for MTBs. Warner Bros continues to announce record breaking viewership, even though nobody believes them, and pro level enduro continues to be more of a feeding series to downhill rather than the end-goal. (Maes, Harnden, Rude, etc) 2.25 clearance on all new gravel bikes. That's the line in the sand that divides MTB from Gravel.

1. Loic wins the overall 2. Vali goes undefeated 3. e-bike hate will increase 4. The new demo will be made into an e-bike version - the 2 chain mechanism will be swapped for a new motor from Spec. 5. Bikes wont change much 6. Gates still pushes the nonsense purse to no avail 7. Reece Wilson will do something even more weird with his bike and still not make it through in Q1.

If this happens we’ll see the full fat segment morph into 55lb full power e-bikes with motor gearboxes. Then, the SL e-bikes as we know them (42lbs with Exo tires and 400wh battery) will fade into the bushes and be replaced by 45lb DJI powered bikes with 600wh batteries. 400wh just isn’t enough to not take your analog 120-140 bike out now that they’re fashionable again.

Hydration style packs for on trail butter churning. Start your ride at the dairy, charge up and down the local hills and at the end of the ride you have the freshest, best butter ever.

More compliant carbon bits. Burlier XC components. Dampers with the ability to generate more damping force.

"Premium" lol. Ain't gonna happen.

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In my limited experience, private equity is more like swinging a dick. They are all dickheads anyway.