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This will date me. My last DH bike was technically an SWD. That dick from the company (Not Steven or Hank, the wannabe Jeordy guy.) ripped me off to the tune of $800 for one of the bad batch of frames that came out after Steven's death. The ones with XC geometry and DH travel. Hank, the stand up guy that he is, invited me to come to his shop and make a new front end for it that worked great and had modern geometry. Then I realized that the Bullit gen two swingarm that I had was a perfect...

Mt Snow NORBA National 1998. Best DH course I've ever ridden to this date. Forest Service shut it down after this year. 3 lines wide through the woods. Worst drought they'd have in decades so deep loam. Snapped chain on the 2nd grass straight under the lift with a rag doll. Was so broke I stuffed my chain in my Intense Grassroots Team Issue XC jersey pocket & kept going. Assumed it was over but like everyone else, passed 4 or 5 guys. Big giant 44 tooth. 4" White Bros DH 110 fork w/ bent stanchions and motor oil from...

There's clearly two different ways to answer the question: guts and numbers. Choices made by feeling, preference, or guts are always going to be vague, personal, and more interesting to discuss. An Aussie might be more inclined to say Hill over a Brit, who might root for Peaty. But they'd both be wrong based on numbers, which are exact, precise, and unfeeling. So I think (having done absolutely no research at all) the numbers would determine the GOATs to be: DH Male: Nico The Alien, and Winnaar. DH Female: Anne-Caro (the undisputed, no-argument, alpha GOAT of the sport), and Rachel...

Nerds! I'll buy a brake for a myriad of reasons, but what fluid is in them is not going to be the determining factor (at all). I do hope someone does an updated test like this with all the new stoppers... https://enduro-mtb.com/en/best-mtb-disc-brake-can-buy/

"Dennis skips leg day at the gym too much." Gold. Great video, and hope Yuroshek can have a full recovery on that knee. Gnarly break.

ugh...after suffering from a compound fracture of my tibia plateau I can relate. Wishing Dennis a quick and full recovery - sending over positive healing vibes. +~+~+~+~+

rough. for those who don't click the insta link, brannigan got blown by the wind on the on-off and crashed, breaking collarbone. @eoin, just because someone can't spell doesn't mean they should be banned : ) most of the replies are legit discussion.

Slightly less of both. (To clarify: the power is slightly down, and there is a bit more freestroke before pad contact, even at shortest setting. At least that’s how I remember the Diretissima).

No, that's because of the Earth's rotation. Duh.