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The 2028 and 2029 UCI Masters Mountain Bike World Championships have been awarded to Aprica, Italy, featuring both Downhill (DHI) and Cross-country Olympic (XCO) disciplines. Quick goggle search, and did not fact check.

Beyond looking for 2 extra venues for the off season in 2028 . The response for the first event must have been pretty positive. Good for them 👏

It will be either Continental Champs or Master's World Champs. That's the usual way a new world champs venue prepares for the event. They do a big UCI event like continental or Master's and then a WC followed by World Champs.

I think that’s what the 2029 World Cup race is for. Maybe a Crankworx then? That could be classified as a “major international” race. I forget about Crankworx all the time…

Your second paragraph falls in line, in my opinion, with the direction Cannondale racing has gone (not including the HQ lay offs), and looking more to influencer, lower key customer engagement. I think there are other brands gone along this route as well and may well in the future as well. Especially as racing becomes more expensive. These are interesting times. As long as things done become too fragmented and to, niche, within a niche, within a niche.

I think the reality is that watching mountain bike racing is only ever primarily going to appeal to mountain bikers . Its a niche within a niche and I dont think that will change . Once you have a corporation like warner bros involved it becomes about growth and i just cant see a time where people who dont ride bikes are specifically tuning in to watch world cup racing , at least in any great numbers . That's why I think something like the beyond race in Tasmania could be a blueprint for the future, give the actual fans...

Money talks and if the prize money of a new competition is good enough the riders will compete And if the media exposure is big enough then it won't be hard to please the bike companies who are probably unsatisfied with the recent world cup format limiting their appearance time on screen Much as I want it to happen I have my doubts that a successful series can be successfully organised outside the UCI by anyone apart from Red Bull. They have the experience and the commentary team for it

Rosa has signed a long term with Cube.

Used some top secret forensic enhancement software from the CIA to recombobulate the pixel matrix and guess what:

That one hits hard. Props to her and endless props also to her dad for fighting for his daughter.

She was super consistent until the first biggy. Most injuries are at the start of bikig season or after an injury. Wefeel like we've had those moments of brilliance and that can fool us in to thinking we're back but the consistency isnt there. Us regular joes have the luxury of easing into it ,if we haveenough situational awarerness, but its hard. Add the extra pressure of earning a pay cheque and being young and shit happens. Compound that with being crazy fast and its explodomat central. I think she just needs to chill abit more, ya capt obvious, and...

You're on the internet. There are losers on the internet. There's a certain base level of negativity from that part of the population that you've just got to laugh at and ignore.

Also, production quality (especially the alignment) on the Meta V5, Meta SX V5 and Tempo V1 was absolutely AWFUL. So many forum posts showing misaligned frames of the models using the VCS suspension layout. I really wanted a Meta SX V5 when it came out, immediately ordered a frame kit as soon as it became available and was devastated to see that the swingarm was so warped that it scraped against the linkage during suspension compression. Returned the first frame, just to have it replaced with another one that had the exact same issue. Those frames should have never passed...

I just noticed that all of my posts since @iceman2058 shared the link to our tool received exactly one downvote. Therefore I would like to learn what was the reason for the downvotes. If the users who were responsible for the anonymous downvotes could be man or woman enough to explain here, what was wrong with what I posted, I'd be very grateful. I'm happy to learn and improve. If, however, they only have a personal issue with me and nothing is wrong with the actual posts, then I recommend to go grow up or touch some grass.That's childish behaviour.

Not exactly a tech rumor, as this is actually real, but worth a post here I think - BikeYoke has just introduced their new "Cockpit Calculator" (do you have a better name for it?), basically a 3D visualization of how changing your geo and cockpit parameters affect your riding position. It's a pretty neat concept, with a few nice use cases that jump out at us. For example, if you're changing your frame and you want to get as close as possible to your old fit, this could help you figure out exactly what cockpit components you need to get...

This is just my stupid opinion but I don’t think I’m missing the point. The “previous” aka the same tempo with dumber routing was super hyped up for being a super efficient bike that also happened to be sort of smashy. All they did was change the marketing language to convince you a bike you should hammer like an enduro bike lol. Some bikes ride better than others for a certain travel bracket. But a 125mm bike will never be a 150mm + bike.

In the days of the 36SL, I'm not sure why any 140mm or less bike is getting a new Lyrik, other than supplier partnerships. Seems like the 36SL is the objectively optimal fork for the Tempo. Is the Pike really too flexy to hammer? Anyway, now here's my maybe even hotter take: Sure, the commencal might be Cat 5, but I don't think bike companies can justify a short travel bike breaking or being less durable because people might ride it too hard. You can't make a bike with enduro-like geometry and then when people ride it fast on hard...