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These green poles are truly one of the worst changes of this post-Red Bull era. While the tapes provided a perfect perspective of the track, making it easier to see the curves and obstacles, these green poles are the opposite, difficult to see, often camouflaged in the green of the vegetation or tree shadows. Take the case of the excellent track in South Korea; the poles are placed like a chess game, making the track super difficult to see... curiously, the tape continues in UCI XCO and in all other world-class Downhill championships as well... before, with the tape, it...

While I don’t think Jackson would have been saved from going out from having poles with tape, I do think they need to bring it back. Any time there is a crest with a corner after your shooting in the dark and having to use visual markers in the background to know where to go. The stall wall is a good example, riders can’t see where to aim because the poles are a foot tall. Dak also mentions MSA had a ton of these last year, making it really hard.

I am not seeing how the last 4 pages of this thread have anything to do with rumors or innovation.

How about we you just post the data. Its been spoken about a lot but I haven't seen it. Would be cool to see actual numbers. Rolling resistance, impact resistance across the skus.

Long time lurker, first time poster here. For some background I’m an aerospace composites engineer and spent several years in Advanced Product Development with an emphasis on environmentally friendly materials. There’s so much to get into on this topic and if folks are interested I’d love to start a dedicated thread on materials and environmental impacts. The TLDR is, carbon fiber as a green product on its own is a fallacy. The raw fiber production may result in a certain level of carbon sequestering, but the process is still so energy intensive I wouldn’t call it an environmental positive. As...

Are less oChain options an innovation? I might not know the meaning of the word "innovation" if it is?

New service kits are not backwards compatibility to previous “A1” models, per SRAM. They say it’s due to new unified internals but I haven’t pulled an old & new one apart to spot the exact compatibility issues. They did say they will continue stocking old service kits into the future.