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Dh may be the f1 of mountain biking. But it’s the professional disc golf of racing sports. Unless you mountain bike almost nobody cares and the percentage of mtbers that watch World Cup dh is slim. Now that doesn’t take away how amazing it is and how hard these athletes and teams work to take part. But to think the sport is suddenly going to become popular by cutting the field and participants is just frankly stupid thinking.

Hurts man, right in the chest. I loved that brand. I steered several of my mates towards them, and they loved how they rode.

latest fox dialed (irrelevant side note: youtube doesn't recommend this video to me even though i watch dialeds all the time, but they continue to shove the same popular MTB superstar vlogger down my feed over and over again even though i've never clicked on them. the gatekeepers of MTB )

Dakkkkkkk! 2nd place with feet out like 6 times. Looks like that time in France has really paid off. Loic definitely had a slightly dryer track. What a run from both of them.

Damn Gwin is a natural in the commentary boot. So well spoken and does not pretend to be talking to casual viewers.

The World Cup of tripodding

andreas kolb in slopestyle mode

raw in a bit : )

Clearly the next big innovation in forks from rockshox will be a stanchion coating you can ice skate over ;p

another fox dialed in the house

https://www.cyclingworldchamps.com/championships/mountain-bike-downhill/ - not a drip of info about how to watch (other than in-person spectating) on the official site, but this is LOL. only the super-strong need apply to DH.

USA legally is through flo sports - https://www.flobikes.com/articles/11001662-how-to-watch-2023-uci-mounta… the UCI "race hub" has zilch on how to watch - https://www.uci.org/race-hub/2023-uci-cycling-world-championships-mount…

It was always going to be a more HP oriented dual link in my mind, but was curious to see if they were gonna go full 6-bar or not, but it doesn't look that way based on this bike at least. I must say it does look very clean and aesthetically pleasing though.

the DHSE crew knocking it out of the park with a national champs race replay!

Yea, my first thought when I saw the GG/Yoann post was that GG is on the ropes financially. There have been rumors that many brands are really lean right now and hurting. This is quite likely the situation here given the "2.5 year relationship". He has always seemed to have a great relationship with them, so when leveled with him that they were in financial trouble he understood and let it go. Which is another reason for the great parting ways post.

2.5 years seems like an odd duration for a sponsorship deal... Regardless, that post is a pretty good example of how you depart from a sponsor, even if it's unexpected (at least that's how I read it).

My guess is that GG is being hit pretty hard with the bike market glut. So many big brands are blowing out bikes at 25% off because they overproduced, it's hard to compete. They're probably making some really hard cost decisions right now, and ending sponsorship deals is a not uncommon one

More photos of the Vorsprung Shock

New RS shock looks to be called a Vivid

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