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You should see Kade ride in the flesh....

It's all splitting hairs but I recall reading that Goldstone was originally going to be a slopestyle rider before he took off in DH, he's super comfortable in the air. Didn't he come 2nd in his first city race last year as well? Kid is just phenomenal on a bike but we have to see how his career develops but it feels like it can only get brighter. Curious if he would do something like Rampage if the risks to his DH career weren't so high, his hardline run was amazing and he always seems to fly through the portions...

having also been following DH for as long or longer, i'd say he's the most gifted racer... i still believe fairclough is the most gifted bike rider we've been fortunate enough to witness.

Defs Unno. Hey went through the trouble to perfectly trace that weird seat post clamp and seatpost mast area juuuuust right lol.

Forbidden ?

Even if every time you put a camera in front of him, he complained about the bike and team structure?

“Dude that would’ve been so sick if I landed it!” —me, when I was a kid, completely missing the point. This is why we still run em, right? J.Goldstone is so rad, I’m rooting for him. But the only sure thing is there’s no sure thing, and that’s why I watch. I get the impression that he’s fully put together, very comfortable in his position, and that appendix shit can only serve to make him even stronger mentally—he lost like 20% of his body weight in a couple weeks, and still showed up to race? Gnarly! But yeah, even if...

I have said it before, been watching/following DH for well over 25 years. I have no idea where his career will go with wins and championships, but he is by far the most gifted rider I have ever seen. The kid is something special and just fun to watch ride a bike. Nico was like a calculated surgeon, Sam Hill when he came on the scene was amazing and loose, then Gwin a professional in every sense of the word, Stevie had a great run going, Amaury too, Minnaar has always been top of the game. Goldstone just makes it...

Barad-dûr

Yeah that definitely looks like Unno’s pillar of doom to me.

seat tube looks pretty mast-y, I'm betting Unno

even tyre logos blacked out, which suggest leaving continental

He also would have won if he hadn't flatted in either Andorra or Snowshoe, strongest rider this year by far imo.

Hard to support international racing if you aren’t selling bikes. I think bike companies need to offer something more than a few percentage points of bike performance if they want to sell bikes to the average committed enthusiast who owns a bike made in the last 3-5 years or the average once a month biker who owns a bike made in the last 8 to 9 years. Resale value is terrible currently and gone are the days of significant improvement to geo and parts quality by upgrading your 1-3 year old bike. And for the guy who isn’t that serious...

The purpose of DH racing isn't to sell dh bikes. It is for general marketing and to sell mid to high level trail and Enduro bikes.

I don't see Aaron retiring without at least attempting a full season on good tires and on an ok-to-good frame. Would be the first time since the YT days for him. I could see him returning next year, getting on the box a couple times and retiring after that. Wins will be very hard for him and Greg to come by in 2024 and beyond with this new younger class of riders pushing the limits of speed and safety. Also, will add that Gwin has always been a businessman and has always maximized his income (to his detriment many times)...

not exactly, gwin‘s contract was being up and they during the beginning of his last year and YT signaled that everything will be fine and he shouldn‘t worry about it. then bang they dropped/didn’t extend him. dak and dave trummer where still under contract when YT pulled the plug on supporting elite riders. to me they are just a marketing firm with solid bikes after all that nonsense. i mean, now that they‘re back they‘re promoting the motto „live uncaged“… what utter BS!

And on more than one occasion too. We know of the big names (i.e. Aaron Gwin) but I wonder how many other not-so-famous athletes around the world got the shaft.

Didn't they drop riders under contract previously?