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Now that is cool. RC servos are pretty quick for their intended applications. This is a way better idea than wireless brakes.

My Italian is a little rusty, but it seems this was made using a servo from the RC world, connected to some kind of stroke measuring device on the brake lever blade. The idea being to change the compression settings of the shock under different types of braking events.

I have run two trail casing mid rears and one gravity casing soft rear. This latest trail casing mid rear is definitely wearing the fastest. The gravity casing showed some feathering of the side knobs at around 25 miles but no tears like the latest one. The first trail mid casing showed feathering around 50 miles and started tearing knobs around 80 miles and was done just past 100. These were ordered in May, July, and now August. If I was able to get acceptable (not asking for Conti level wear, just like 400-500 miles) wear rates out of them...

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well now i have no idea who to pick for fantasy if everyone is holding back with safer qualifying. i mean i wasnt gonna do well anyway but JEEZ

Elite qualifying done at the World Sandbagging Champs: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/news/results-val-di-sole-world-championsh….

Damn, that was a hefty slam. Truly hope he's ok. I was rooting for him for tomorrow's race.

eat your heart out! lawlor is there today doing some slowmo too. should be good

Looks like Jackson had a nasty crash in final practice - hopefully he's all good

I like scrubs… where they at???

bummer for gracey, but stoked to see her shred whistler! abigail hogie and jenna hastings DNS for quali too : (

Gracey not racing

I saw on socials that Aletha wrecked in her quali run. The scrub clips are bonkers.

Cannot get over the Rory Kirk scrub clips. Insanity.

The start order is determined by the latest UCI individual ranking and is the same for both qualifying and finals. Not sure about why Jonty has that number, but he did drop in last today.

Men's Juniors top 3 in qualis: Williamson, Boatwright, Forlin. I have no idea how they set up the qualifying start order. For some reason Jonty Williamson was 39th of 80 riders on the published start list.

Full junior qualifying results here: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/news/results-val-di-sole-world-championsh….

Yep, that did happen a few years back.

Top 3 in Junior women qualifying were: Rosa Marie Jensen, Tilly Boadle, and Indy Deavoll. A big gap between 1st and 3rd: 11.3 seconds. Aletha Ostgaard finished 11th, more than 17 seconds back. No idea if weather is affecting conditions. Full results at: https://www.tissottiming.com/2026/mtbwch/reports#15