All

Elite men highlights: Elite women highlights:

Wow, that looked like a great race to watch. Thanks UCI, for paywalling it--ya suck! Top four men within 1.5 second, all under 22 years old. Jonty coming up next year. The sport is NOT slowing down.

Good interviews in this Fast AF* debrief. It's pretty clear how much a World Champs title means to these riders.

Was easy to watch from Japan on Youtube.

Future GOAT

Jackson’s POV. Hit the ludicrous speed button

They weren’t broadcasted

Did they show Jrs? I couldn't find them on UCI YT

I was so confused looking for him in the live timing and then couldn’t find him forever on the quali list until I finally scrolled to bottom and saw DSQ. Since he’d finished originally with a time, I guess it was a DSQ after review.

Jackson's winning run. I'll just post a link here, rather than embedding the video, because even though it's on Youtube I expect it will get deleted. Also, the audio is horrendous. Still, if you want to see poetry in motion and you haven't seen his run, the video is apparently from the broadcast and is excellent quality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqOG3G4K5Yw

Jordan gonna go back to not smiling and shoot for silvers, not bronze.

Did we figure out what happened to DAK?

@sspomer and @Jason_Schroeder I just listened to the recent Inside Line pod where y'all were perplexed by the Avinox haters. I wanted to provide some honest insight into this: for many of us, it's because they're higher power than Class 1 and we worry that they're going to jeopardize e-bike trail access. I'd like to see DJI and Specialized eat dirt since they don't care one iota about trail access dynamics. I'd love to hear you start calling Avinox (and others) out on being over 750 watts and not Class 1. It's maddening whenever there's a review that doesn't bring...

well this is optimistic news

I tried the WT ones for a couple of weeks and ended up taking them off for a few reasons. They made my existing bars feel too narrow. I’ve run this width for a while but the bar end changed arm angle and felt awkward / super tight. Might be my hand position. I really disliked them when climbing my enduro bike. I’ve never noticed how much I move my hands, rest on ends of the bar, flare at an angle, etc. These made me feel constrained on climbs to a certain position and made my hands tired.

TPU as a print material? TPU will probably be even gripper than straight plastic... Good point on the flange to insert becoming the weak point. If you still went that route a big spacer on the outside might help things to take the load or at least compress things a bit.

Yeah I pondered a few orientations, this is strongest since: - weakest point is flange to bar insert joint and there's not much you can do about the stress concentration there... So don't want layers coinciding with it if you lay it flat. The flange will just pop off. - failure mode for me was bending moment on rear edge, probably because my angled flange now means it's the main point of impact. This orientation keeps main bending moment in xy plane I like the foil tape idea though, thanks! I might revisit TPU

Print it in a way that's best for strength (lay it flat or rotate it by 90 degrees so you're not bending it across layers) and then put some smooth foil, tape, etc. on the inside to prevent gripping.

I've been doodling around with my own design for a few months now... I quite like the surface to be harder*, flatter, smoother so it has less friction and doesn't grip the glove/hand, as long as the flange is at the same angle as the edge of the hand... I can then push my hand against it without pinching or friction All selfishly optimised around my hand, my bars, my grips (sensus EMJ). It's a work in progress, but thought I'd share the variant currently on my bike if anyone else wants a try/meddle: https://makerworld.com/models/3232426 *that in turn leads to...

yeah, idk a little rough but still better than wearing gloves. I would say that the small crack is more annoying than the flange.