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Sadly, I think for the world cup the management is hoping to weed out privateers. I think from the UCI and big sponsor's perspectives, the privateers are just clogging up the works without being helpful for their marketing. If they could cut the whole race series down to just 3-5 big teams I think they'd do it in a heartbeat.

kolb lost the race in the woods. every section is important.

What edr needs most is to return to being a destination series with a focus on quality trails, experience, and a serious fitness requirement that served a purpose at the more remote rounds. It’s fine if a couple venues are regulars and a couple a year are at bike parks but what drew riders, media, and fans a like was that it was this pinnacle version of the sport to aspire too. they just keep dumbing it down into something nobody is interested in. And attaching these events to dh is severely limiting their ability to draw riders, have quality...

Recent pod I listened to with Dan Wolfe was really good in going over history and development of enduro. Dan's idea, which I think is a cool one, is to make EDR enduro two days again. Have one massive backcountry day that served as a "quali" for a more park-focused day that could be broadcast (stage DH racing, basically). I like this idea as well, because you could harvest narratives from the big day that are in the spirit of enduros (Jack Moir fixed his flat by stuffing grass into it, etc..), which you could weave into the broadcast on...

Not sure that's what the race results tell us though, looks to me that there was around 1.5 seconds between the first and tenth place in the woods section over less than 40 sec of track, in Sector 2 there was 2.3 seconds between first and tenth. Seen as Sector 2 was nearly two minutes long, seem to me that the woods were quite important?

The difference is that Peaty spent his whole career helping younger riders with teams, deals and advice. Brendan did a podcast recently where he was saying how Peaty even explained financial advice to him. So he fits naturally into a team in a coaching position. Minaar, while obviously the GOAT and an amazing racer and ambassador, is also known for intimidating or confusing his own more junior team members. It is a part of high level sports/racing, so not dissing him (Palmer and even Bruni admitted to doing this on GypsyTales recently), but it does make it harder to find...

If that is a concern around the Downhill pits, I imagine the enduro crews are having a hard time sleeping.

won't disagree that there's health benefits in many cases, but pretty big assumption to make that this (or any person) has any weight to lose. nothing wrong with product innovation to accommodate a broader range of body types.

Welcome back to the Life Choices and Personal Fitness; Rumors and Innovation forum. Can we go back to bikes please.

Yeah I get what you mean, if it gets stopped you need to reload the page after a few sec and it should come back. Agree it's not perfect but I'm in a country where the rights-buyer is only interested in the Men's XC race because MVDP is racing, and won't show DH live, so Tiz it is for me..