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Intense can quite literally use anything their minds come up with that isn't under 25 year patent, which I think are currently DW Link, Maestro, Delta Link, ABP & Split Pivot? FSR, VPP & most all other linkage patents are open source now that their exclusivity has expired? Am I right?

We are one is creating a new Enduro team, they just signed Emmet from PB academy... Maybe the other spot may be filled with Keegan Wright, he spent a lot of time in bc, maybe he got in contact with them... Another option could be Florian Nicolai? Miranda Miller?

It's not just relatability, it's partly that certain personality traits are a benefit for a public figure. People love loud an bombastic people like Tippie, but he's said himself that he was a pretty terrible person when he was taking drugs, and he was using during most of the height of his fame. Gwin just isn't a super personable guy during interviews and such. there's nothing wrong with that, but it's a disadvantage as a public figure. Gee gets kinda tarred with the same brush. Edit: what i should have made more clear, is that Gwin sometimes comes off as...

I was planning to leave you alone but this is a complete lie, you did not speak to anyone in Ukraine. I work with Ukrainians daily and their attitude is one of defiance, if Russia is going to come just let them do it and let them see the shit storm they are in for. My professional staff and their families are ready to drop everything and join the military. Meanwhile, there is literally no panic or fear, everything in Kyiv is completely normal right now other than meetings about preparations for what may happen. How the hell did we...

The Australian Federal Government essentially overruled their own sports governing body -- Tennis Australia (who initially approved Djokovic's participation), on who can compete in one of the biggest sports events held in its borders. The IOC usually frowns upon (and, in some cases, even sanctions) governments meddling into sports organizations or sports governing bodies. In this case, they (and the ATP) will look the other way. This sets a precedent that I am sure most countries with major international sports events will follow. In the case of the UCI, it's been pretty clear that the policies of the country where...

So, there will be a war breaking out on February 7th. I was thinking about taking a day off (we have a bank holiday on 8th, so it would be a LOOOOOOOONG weekend). Seems only reasonable to not go to work considering there's an imminent war breakout.

Angel Suarez announced as Commencal 100% rider on Commencal Team web page

Off topic: Americans are weird. Whenever this topic comes up it's always some American that regurgitates these talking points. I know that generalization hits a lot of good folk out there but, wow - you guys have a serious problem on your hands. Flatlander over here isn't even a rare exception. He's just one of the few that accidentally found himself outside the imaginary world he and his fellow bubble dwellers live in. On topic: France is outside of the imaginary world the new breed of American conservatives have created. More power to them. Push bike athletes should not be...

I just apologized to my phone for opening this thread on it. Sheesh.

The people yelling government overreach wouldn't likely be shouting then, but a whole bunch of other people would. Preventing Muslims from racing is simple discrimination without any grounds. Enforcing vaccinations in a pandemic is at least debatable, it has a positive end game. Preventing people from participation based on race/religion doesn't have a positive end game. As for mortality rate, I'm guessing you'd still have a ton of vocal people even with a 100 % death rate. 'Just don't catch it, why do we have to vaccinate'. BTW, I'm REALLY interested in how many antivaxxers (the diehard ones, that don't...

What would the level of Mortality for a pandemic need to be to change peoples minds like Bizutch or FLFlatLander's? Let's hypothesize that getting the jab prevented a 12 monkeys type apocalypse, would they then be ok with mandates? What if the scenario was that the French government was not allowing riders to compete from Muslim countries "that harbor terrorists" instead of non-vaccinated. Of course there aren't many pro riders from these countries, but if there were, I bet we would see the people in this thread who are yelling "Government Overreach" suddenly be less vocal. What if riders couldn't...

Cluster B personality disorders Cluster B personality disorders are a categorization of personality disorders as defined in the DSM-IV and DSM-5. They are characterized by impulsive, self-destructive, emotional behavior and sometimes incomprehensible interactions with others. They include antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.

Just stop. Civil war? Now you are being absolutely stupid. Spend some time and look around. Read your history. Look at the news (not Fox/ Newsmax/ OANN). Real news like the AP. Show me one modern day nation that came out ahead post civil war. I will make it easy for you- there is not one. You throw around "liberal" like it is a bad thing not realizing that most of the freedoms people enjoy are actually "liberal". The Constitution is a "liberal" document (not a single nation in the world had a representative limited democracy). There is not a...

Anywayyyyy, back to the team rumors. Seems like the only team rumors left to solve are on the EWS side

Don't get me wrong there is clearly a lot to be said for small batch local production and I think what the Atherton's are doing is super interesting and I would love to see them succeed. Buuut I think that time is always going to be the limiting factor with SLS as your primary manufacturing process. The frame shown in the video has a print time of 20 hours! Meaning that if they're running at absolute maximum capacity they could put out 365 frames per year (let's ignore weekends, bank holidays and failures for argument's sake). They probably need 20ish...

Trickstuff has pushed their re-opening back to March 1st. It was originally Jan 18, then Jan 23. The modal on their site says it's so they can migrate to a new ERP (enterprise resource planning) system and I am not surprised by the date changes; migrations like that are brutally complex (I've led a few) and I was surprised they originally said they'd do in a month. From the outside it doesn't speak especially well of whoever is managing the project though, and they have my deepest sympathies, this stuff is freakin' hard (and if they're trying to integrate w/...

Just leave the troll alone at this point

So you're saying that there is no way to prove that the vaccine leads to a milder outcome? But we're to believe that because someone had a heart attack several days after a shot that the vaccine was the cause of the heart attack? Mmm'k Cousin, friend's aunt people at my church = not science. While we're being antidotal, my coworker's wife is a nurse. At the hospital she works at, which once again is full of Covid patients. Guess what the one thing they all have in common? That's right, unvaxxed. Crazy coincidence I guess...

I guess Djokovic won’t be racing at Lourdes then 😂

So wait... Vaccine stuff once again aside... They're making the creation of false documents illegal. Isn't that already a law for most documents? Government issued or otherwise? Medicare cards, drivers licenses, bus pass, voter information, etc. This isn't a new thing to making false documents illegal. https://prisonprofessors.com/forgery/