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I support my local bike shop even if the costs are a little higher sometimes. If we want to see the sport continue in the ways we want to see it continue, we have to help fund it. $10 for a broadcast is fine when I can spend $10 on a not-very-good mocktail. Skip a drink or two out at a restaurant and it's handled. I should drink less sugar, anyway.

It directly supports the rider though.

Worth noting- broadcast pricing is planned to start at ~$10 USD (depending on exchange rate at the time). This won’t be a normal race broadcast as you know it- we are building out a full show, and when racing goes live we’ll have 40+ cameras on course.

Here we go, the all-new "Beyond Gravity" race in Maydena has just been announced, with a new event model that aims to provide a generous prize purse and a share in broadcast revenues for the athletes. You can read all the details here: https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/190000-prize-purse-minimum-beyond-g…. TLDR: The race will use most of the Red Bull Hardline course, but with added focus on rider safety and weather-proofing of many sections. Rider numbers will be low with 25 invited riders (including both male and female riders) + 5 local wild cards who will act as reserves during the week. There's impressive potential for...

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I can add a bit more being on the design team for this bike. We can do a better job at calling out the "why" in the short press release. There will be upcoming videos talking about it, but here it is from the design side of things. As bike designers we are constrained by the shape of the motor and battery. We can't change these designs. Riders are wanting bigger batteries (800wh in this bikes case). We also have great demand to fit more shocks, from inline, to the largest enduro and coil shocks. We have to have fork...

Thank you for the explanation. It makes all the sense in the world. Not hating on Charlie. I just didn't get it. Cheers, buddy! Mx

What is the relevance of having a ”vertical shock”? Why does it matter? At some point I have heard a newbie say that he is looking for a bike and he had found a Santa Cruz, but he didn't like it because it has no ”vertical shock”. I laughed and explained to him that it doesn't matter so much in the grand scheme of things for a shock to be ”vertical”. Now I see this on my favorite MTB site. Is it a Pinkbike-ish ”wAtEr bOtTLe sPaCe iS sOmEtHiNG i LiVe aNd diE fOr”? Thanks, Mx

Can you imagine watching a 12 hour live stream ultra race? My own mom wouldn't watch that if I was winning.

When tape comes back 😂

Yeah they should do something safer than 4x... Like... Downhill

I think you of all people should have been STOKED on the 4x champs racing. Watching Neko use excellent race craft to hang on to a wheel and then out power dudes at the end. Sounds like you're not even giving it a chance tbh

Jackson’s POV. Hit the ludicrous speed button

Neko on the podium after letting everyone battle and crash in front of him