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Glad my comments are getting mentioned in Inside Line. Amazing you guys are doing this on $400k. Those white pants are gonna kill your laundry budget, man.

Can't sort out the second champion but F me sideways... If Connor and Danny Hart are on the same team next year there's gonna be a lot of no talking and corner slapppping going on with that team. My two favorite racers on one team!? Hot damn! Make it be true!

Huh. Weird. Something must have happened during the 2019 WC season for Brook.

Longtime NE Patriots coach Bill Belichick is a polarizing figure in American sports, but there's this quote he said that I love and can't get out of my head, "Coaches don't win games. Only the players on the field can win games. Coaches can lose games, though." That's what I think about bikes in competition. Bikes can't win races, but they can lose races. As such, my goal in setting up a bike is that it doesn't lose me the race, i.e. mechanical drag or inefficiency, mechanical failure, flat tires, inconsistent or unpredictable performance, major unpleasant tradeoffs, etc. Basically if...

hey dude you wanna go ride the pump track this afternoon? yeah lemme just weld up a DJ bike real quick see you at 2...

Refreshingly SMART, not strange. The last thing the industry needs right now is somebody making a product that already exists in overabundance just because they can. Why waste any time, effort, and resources on making a DJ frame when you can source it as part of the deal with Spesh and get paid for riding it instead. We should applaud Neko's focus on what's essential here and actually providing some value to the market (the DH bike, in other words), otherwise they'll just turn into the 1547th "by riders for riders" company churning out generic flat pedals and handlebars...

Um, have you not been paying attention? Yeti built a new DH bike for Richie last year because he said he wanted to do some DH racing. Like a fully finished carbon DH bike ready for production.

Gwin back to Yeti, I'm calling it. Him and Richie back together would be great to see again, bring on the Two Turquoise Terminators

Lower height means a lower centre of gravity essentially. So Brosnan, Laurie & Jackson have a low COG = Turn better in science land. This all gets thrown out the window when you have Greg, Jack Moir etc who are well over 6ft with long limbs Taller riders have more leverage, can soak up bumps better, again in theory. This all gets thrown out the window when you have balls of muscle like Bulldog and Finn Isles. see where I'm going with this, In theory you can have a "perfect rider build" but I think the Cranial Matter up stairs...

i don't think it's getting into the weeds at all! it's a reality w/ downhill. different rider sizes, different track sections/conditions. the diversity is what keeps it exciting. the fact a jackson and a greg can be competitive on the same tracks is pretty awesome. i always fall back to a story told by friends racing sea otter DH. if anyone is familiar w/ the track, there's the upper section of track that ends up dropping into a steep (for the track) fast, straight line that levels out and goes uphill for a bit. in practice, a lighter rider entered...

He's got "Death Grip 2: Grip Harder" coming out this year, I'd assume no major sponsor changes?

team rumors posting as tight as leogang race times. .02 off and you're in 14th place. (and @chriskief, you're right, i failed re: mobile site and author labels yesterday)

THIS should be the Vital Bike of the Year post! so many incredible bikes and builds and ideas!

I am convinced that real racers - and not influencers like Wibmer for example - do not need to be loud and colorfull on the web. If brands need this they should just ask the marketing and production team to make it work. Influencing is a full time job. It‘s a lot different from building strenght for a race season. but I see that it can be advantage. For the brand in form of exposer and for the rider as additional income. but these two are not necessarely linked and a fast racer can be a hero even if he...

East & West Dh series with a National finals.