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Ahh, not entirely what i meant, but i can see how my post was misleading. I train all the olympic lifts, and they're great for building general allround strength but i think there are exercises specific to bike riding that you'll see bigger benefits from, such as split squats. Dont get me wrong, id never sack off the big compound...

Depends what your goal is. As much as you can laugh at the Kenny Powers meme its actually true, do you want to get faster on the bike or better at lifting weights up and down? Personally i do both, and the the training for both is completely different, i dont for one second think that increasing your 1repmax on...

Fuck me, I was worried my comment was too transparent..... I'll dumb it down. DID FABIEN BAREL TRY AND MAKE THE LAPIERRE TEAM WEAR THE BRANDS HE REPS (URGE!) AS CONDITION OF JOINING CANYON? Just as a disclaimer, none of that was in reference to gwin.

Nice, really like the look of that Bergamont tr450.

Was the team manager urging them to choose a particular brand he reps?

This whole thread is just guessing haha, Personally im of the opinion that all of this excitement will be kind of for nothing, i think Gwin will announce hes riding on a team for Whitely with fairly standard sponsors, maybe a surprise big name like PayPal was for CRC

Thats pretty cool, Honda did a similar thing with the fireblade a few years ago when they started working with Ohlins, the swingarm was too stiff so they had to make a more flexible swingarm to damp some of the high frequency vibration i believe. Im assuming the beefed up shock link is to reduce the increased torsion forces coming...

surely too many of these sponsors conflict with Gwins personal deals?

Nice, so hopefully we will see a full team? not just Gwin? wasnt Greg Williamson spotted with a YT? Ropelato still to confirm his plans as well right? Also, is this the website that leaked the Sam Hill press release early? i remember Nigel Page being a little unhappy when all of that happened and he mentioned a German site

Is Sam Dale still gonna be riding for Canyon this year? Sounds like you and LapierreLoosely have the same sources bro

throw enough shit at a wall and some will stick.... so im guessing theres a big wall in NZ with some shit stuck to it, AKA "your source"?

So YT weren't bullshitting, the FOX spec was finalized months ago....... along with Gwin's contract. Did anybody believe otherwise? im sure new contracts and team setups are sorted well in advance of seasons end.

50% opinion, 50% myth and legend, 1% fact- 100% TEAM RUMOURS.

Hmmmmm, Brosnan/Bronson???? TROY BROSNAN TO SANTA CRUZ CONFIRMED 100% by my detective skillz

Buy a mountain, build a chairlift, build a settlement at bottom of said mountain- invite riders, watch the trails appear. heaven.

Yeah its only my opinion also, i have no true insight into KTM so im not saying anything you've said is wrong just that i don't find it likely. And i wasn't cherry picking, i also thought it was 2016 they were entering. I've worked for a manufacturer with an F1 team and its basically like being in a separate...

So you think KTM, who plans to enter motogp in 2016, hired an outside company to develop their bike, and that company has left it until late 2015 to hire an engineer for the project? And with regards to budget, companies dont pick one project a year and spend all their available cash on it, the motogp budget will be...

Why do Americans keep saying this? Do you have any idea how many bikes YT are selling worldwide- They have zero overstock, they sellout on pretty much every model, run no factories, employ minimal staff. They run the epitome of a lean business model, and have been doing so since forming over 5 years ago and you think they dont...

Thats a capra, its a trail bike. The significance is that when Zink signed for YT they started speccing bikes with brands that sponsored Zink. Gwin has a really strong relationship with Fox, and i doubt would ever move to anything else. YT has never specced a Fox fork on anything, so i think this is a fairly solid indication...

TLD A1 I think people may be slightly misunderstanding why KTM (motorcycles) would want to sponsor Gwin riding a YT frame- they don't care about selling mountainbikes to mountainbikers, they want to sell motorbikes to mountainbikers. Because as its been pointed out many times before "That DH bike costs almost as much as an MX bike" KTM cycles are on...