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Can check out PB right now. lol at Kaz citing Skye Schillhammer, 'Transition’s marketing director and parking lot supervisor' with the spy shot in Transition's hq.

I love that it's Neko Mulally doing this. Nobody else would get out alive.

The tread pattern was also changed to make less of transition. Schwalbe say the 2.5 will be better if this is what you're looking for

TubeLessReady if I'm not mistaken

e13 radial tire lineup explained (by e13)

I'll take the chance that this is somewhat on-topic and race-related. I'm probably missing someone who should be on this short list, but here are four riders who I think might have the highest combined winning percentages in UCI World Cup and World Championships. I didn't include wins in Juniors (Vali's percentage would be almost double, if I did.*) Rachel Atherton: 42.1% (46 wins) Vali Höll: 34.8% (16) Aaron Gwin: 17.9% (21) Greg Minnaar: 13.1% (26) Nicolas Vouilloz, 37.9% (22 including 7 World Champs) [Thank you, @RadAxSmirch for bringing this one to my attention after my original post!] Anne Caroline...

Race Cascadia thinking outside the box for race coverage.

Rik's ok as an anchorman, I guess BUT if he's going to be sat in a West London studio he's going to have to take MORE NOTES and be up to date with any course changes, for example. A quick scan of forums and socials on the build up will give him enough factoids to take up plenty of the dead air. But he needs a colourful and knowledgeable co-commentator, at least the XC race, despite being a run&bike mudfest had Oli Beckinsale who is experienced enough to keep Rik on track.

If they're going to have a remote studio in the UK (which sucks) that at least means they could get Brits to commentate for way cheaper than having to fly them out to a race. Rob Warner, Rachel Atherton, Gee Atherton, Brendan Fairclough, Ratboy are all right there. They all either have way more commentating skill, have raced more recently than 1200 BC, or both. Ric wasn't that bad, but was definitely not "good", and whoever the new guy is was atrocious. He just repeated what Ric said, and said "when I was racing when the wheel was first invented"...

I knew it! What a shitty decision. Gotta believe this, as a brand new venue in Asia would’ve been one of the ones to DEFINITELY have boots on the ground. I’m doubly disappointed. Not only on the noticeable drop in quality it brought, but that they were shady with it. Spin it as some sort of pro move, that you’re holding it down in Digital Mountain Bike Studio Four or whatever. Or just say it. I could hear MBeaumont struggling with the location charade but RicMc was saying “here in Korea” …and they only had what?—three people there as mans...

The foam is for SRAM riders running bluetooth valve stems to protect it from rock strikes. Apparently they've been running them a while.

Wow, part way through the Downtime recap and it sounds like this race was a total junk show from a safety/organizational standpoint.

It wouldn't be. Those little electric pumps are not exactly light and mounting one on the rim like that would throw the balance of the wheel completely off. That balance is super important, especially at this level of racing. It's just a piece of foam to protect the valve stem from rock strikes since there was so much loose rock on the track. You could do a pump like that built into the hub, that wouldn't throw the balance of the wheel off.

Actually mind boggling they're still banging on about the step down? Was there ever discussion of re-opening it? How is there no one in the 'truck' saying it? Like Carlson... They keep bringing up things from Carlson on track despite him not having a hot mic.

Whoever suggested "ask the riders what to expect from them this season" needs to be canned. Quite possibly the worst and most pointless question one can conceive to ask an athlete. Literally only one answer. Provides NOTHING to anyone, the athlete, the production, the audience. In between that and the commentating (not being there?) I can't believe it's somehow gotten worse. I'll take Carlsons ghoulies at this point...

Dude they’re not there. The commentary team for Warner Bros Discovery is not on site! They’re not fucking there! MB just said he can hear how windy it is on the feed. I’m more clued in than these dudes. How embarrassing.

Holy shit the commentators aren’t there, are they?

Is RicMc pretending not to know the big jump is closed?

Lawlor come through with the first episode of The Weekend, 2026 following Luca Shaw, Matt Walker and Remi Thirion this round.

It seems like Neko and Aaron might be busy this season, but if they can find an English speaker who is as experienced, who actually knows the racers' stories, the broadcast would be sooooo much better.