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was this ever confirmed? DIMITRI TORDO: COMMENCAL ENDURO PROJECT we like dat sheet!

New "BNC Racing" team with a load of privateer Brits - presumably a joint effort to form an elite team?

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I happen to be friends with one of the first Red Bull sponsored mountain bike athletes, at that time, you were considered a Red Bull Athlete for life. My friend still gets Redbull helmets to this day and she hasn't raced professionally for almost 20 years. I have no idea if she is still compensated or just considered a sponsored athlete. I think once there began to be a lot more RB athletes they went to the more traditional "contracts" with specified lengths and could be renewed. For example, I think Brook Macdonald just announced a few weeks ago that...

Martin Soederstroem just leaked the new Ramson https://www.instagram.com/p/C2ztsBLilkZ/?igsh=amJxdmt4cW80bWJ4

New Chilcotin Medium is 483mm reach, thats a stretch.... I love this bike! https://knollybikes.com/en-ca/products/chilcotin-170

Dude, I feel you, but they can't get more basic things figured out, like listening to the riders if it's safe for them to ride that damn semifinal or not. It's pretty much like if your house is on fire, but what you care about about is that the lunch that you are eating doesn't feature enough wild salmon and caviar. I'd like to see permanent numbers too, but it's not exactly the main thing that we are missing. We are missing VENUES. At least two big ones are no more this year. Riders are struggling to find teams, brands...

Even better, just make bamboo grow in frame shapes.

As long as we're getting rid of 203 / 223 rotors, let's do away with centerlock too. A solution in search of a problem, that mostly just ends up creating more problems.

Superboost for sure, good wheels are expensive and there are many bikes I won't even consider because my nice wheels won't transfer easily.

SO HARD TO PICK Headset cable routing dies forever. Passing a law that all stems and handlebars have to be two-piece on new bikes (you can buy your stupid one-piece bar/stem combos aftermarket if you want them so bad). All mountain bikes run a 73mm BSA BB. Downhill bike engineers, see next bulletpoint if you're worried about chainlines. One front and rear axle standard for all mountain bikes. It could be 15x110 and 12x148 and it would be amazing. It's easy to build downhill forks with too much torsional stiffness (see: OG Fox 40), so you don't really need a...

Get frames to spec 8x30 shock hardware on every frame every time- can run standard hardware or bearings that way. More compatibility for shock swapping. 34.9 seat posts 49mm chain line (6mm offset chainrings) Design 29” bike kinematic for 30t chain rings 31.8 handlebar Everything is pretty amazing now considering where we were 10-15 years ago.

15mm fork axles. Bring back 20mm for single crown (Intend leading the way there as ever) Everything else I can live with (for the most part) as there are always several options to chose from.

I'd kill 203/223mm rotors. 200/220 is the way.