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That's pretty funny. The whole discussion is completely meaningless without camber/rocker/sidecut/stiffness/width/area being taken into account. Almost as meaningless as this thread i suppose. You can chunk up bike design into fairly separate parts - geo/wheel path, kinematics, stiffness.. to a point anyway, they're still very interconnected obviously. But you can nail one and not the other. Ski design is holistic voodoo, everything is connected to everything else.

Flick-ability could likely be definable along a spectrum based on the amount of input force needed to change the direction of the bike. How this direction change is defined or quantified would be situation dependent and further define what is flick-ability for each person. However, the concept remains the same. If your goal is to perform a moto-whip in the air, a bike that takes 10N of force to throw the back end sideways would be more flick-able than a bike that takes 100N of force. You could then assess what variables on the bike affect that required force, i.e...

jackson's most recent post (does not show crashesbut discusses them) brook's is pretty heavy

Adolf Silva speaks about his injury. We're all wishing him a strong, healthy recovery!

I'm not 100% opposed to that idea, but I think it comes with a few caveats. A shorter final will make for a better media product, but overall worse for us hardcore fans. That would have to come with Youtube live Q2, so you can still have a chance to watch your favorite riders. And the tracks would have to be more difficult with impressive features if you're really trying to catch the barely interested TV viewer. Then you will need more non-endemic sponsors because Larry watching channel 23 doesn't give a shit about which suspension brand offers the most...

I like to do all my speculation on the shitter.

I think his comments about hardline TAS being unfair really were the nail in the coffin for a lot of people

I look at those quotes and see someone who seems to be dealing with depression rather than entitlement. But to each their own.

Myriam Nicole out for this round Kaspar Woolley in

I think the pad is there since it's assumed riders will be clipping it as they try to stay tight through the chicane. A single pole would likely get kicked out repeatedly. I'm not saying it's possible in this section, but since the pole is outside the pad, wouldn't it be legal to jump over the pad instead of zig-zagging around it?