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I'm sure Marc is vastly more intelligent than myself, but he's also a malignant narcissist whose vision of the of the future is terrifying if you dig into it. He doesn't explicitly state it in his manifesto, but he's clearly all in on accelerationism and the Neo-Reactionary (NRX) movement AKA the "Dark Enlightenment". Tech billionaires are attempting to trying to destroy America and rebuild what they are calling "Network States", which are essentially corporate fiefdoms. This is part of the reason why they are trying to sell off public lands. They need land (and farm land) to accomplish this. https://thenetworkstate.com/...

What? Mud produces some of the best runs in the history of the sport! Sam's 2007 Champery run, Danny's run in 2011, Gwin's run at Mt Saint Anne in 2018, Recces's 2020 World Championship-winning run, Amaury's 2024 Les Gets run, Ronan's and Max's 2025 Les Gets runs were all fun to watch.

CAN WE PLEASE STOP WITH THE RELATIONSHIP STUFF? this is a dead horse that is now pulp. (not saying i agree with it). PLEASE KEEP IT OUT OF TEAM RUMORS AT THIS POINT Go make another thread if this is that big of a deal for you guys

Long ramble, sorry. Just offering a different perspective from this because my first reading of the podcast episode was completely different. I listened to the whole podcast. I think the answer BK gave seemed accurate and I didn't hear it as complaining (and he even said in the podcast that it's going to sound like sour grapes coming from him). Did you listen to the whole podcast? What was the question Elliot asked again: "How has Hardline changed?" He described a particular way it changed: It used to be everyone being cool and helping each other and racing in an...

See, when we talk about chainstays we should be describing the physical object, like the down tube, or seat stay. When talking about Geometry numbers, which are mostly virtual measurements, (think reach, stack, front centre, seat angle etc.) That's when we should be saying rear centre. Long chainstays for me is a misnomer, as the physical object is not always correlated to the axle-bb measurement. I don't get why we can't agree as a community to use these terms, I mean it's not like anyone has ever gotten reach mixed up with the top tube length?

New game - one hub, two caps-s. Hadley XC front hub with standard 15mm endcaps vs properly executed torque caps. Will I be able to tell a difference in torque stiffness of my Intend fork?

In regards to the Junior stream, I’ll give discovery this: Keeping Josh Carlson out of the commentary booth makes the broadcast significantly better. Now do it for Elites Fuck a goolie.

Who is that guy and why does he look so disappointed in his bike?

If it was for the fender why the one in last picture look to be still zip tied on? Hopefully they use the Boxxer air spring theory on the new one and make it an upgrade. Then I can try coil and not have to worry about going back to air 😂

First off, I don't think each fork has been taken apart by Jordi personally and sprinkled with fairy dust or anything, but the idea that they would spend all that money on a press camp and then just give the reviewers production line fresh, never checked forks seems wild to me. I'm not suggesting in any way that 1 in 20 forks has issues, but I bet 1 in 200 isn't the best example of the girls and not one that they would want in the hands of the reviewers. You think they are willing to take the 1 in...

Can we make a forum thread where people complain about edit music, its guaranteed every single time sleeper post something that isnt 20-40 year old generic rock and metal. Let sleeper be a creative. As a big metal guy, this slaps.

You are so lost in the sauce. Like 4 different people gave great explanations of how flex stays work and you dismissed every single one, but want a "data driven discussion" when you can't comprehend a literal Microsoft paint diagram. Now you don't like "buzzy undamped coil spring", this is comedy gold. @CascadeComponents Can i formally apologize for this member of the forum and please say come back to discuss things with us Vital users that don't have a crayon missing from the box.

This a mtb forum where anybody is free to post or not. You are not paying Cascade components an engineering consultancy fee so they don't owe you shit.

We spent so much time worrying about pedal kickback that we didn't stop to consider pedal kickforward

should be time stamped to the MTB convo at 2:29:30... i feel like you've all been had by the media. I'm not sure if there was like another post or something. as somebody who ACTUALLY watches moto and ACTUALLY watched the podcast and ACTUALLY paid attention and isn't reacting off of what the internet told me to feel he NEVER says he could jump in and win a cup. he hedges his bets so much he honestly doesn't even say anything along the lines of qualifying. literally the most he says is 'a moto guy could "do it"... basically saying...

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Random observation: Niko is a bit of a low talker. I think his mic needs to be turned up on both the race streams and on the podcast. I often feel like I'm straining to hear what he's saying, especially compared to Shouty McLaughin on the race broadcasts. Strangely enough I watched a bit of the last podcast on YouTube and the levels seemed better there compared to when I download it on Itunes. It also could be because I'm an old man and my ears are wrecked.

At this point , we desperately need a "simulcast" audio commentary that we can sync to a muted broadcast. There has to be 2 or 3 dudes out there with the knowledge , wit and skill to save us from the WB offering , which seems to be getting worse rather than better and is detracting from the pleasure of watching WCDH racing for a lot of people.

ESO is the organizer. If they can’t introduce a venue that they choose and produce a race then what are these teams paying them for. Yeah if the lift was down or there is severe enough weather at the time. But mud? These guys cancelled a mtb race at the highest level for mud because of bad planning. It’s their literal job to work with the local organizations to have a all weather track so teams don’t pay them and fly across the world to not race. Red Bull never was in charge of medical. But they were pretty instrumental...