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Yeah, I'm a Vali fan, but boy am I becoming a fan of that whole team. Lots of good energy.

I see what you did there, and hats off to you. 👌🏻

Luca the time

These green poles are truly one of the worst changes of this post-Red Bull era. While the tapes provided a perfect perspective of the track, making it easier to see the curves and obstacles, these green poles are the opposite, difficult to see, often camouflaged in the green of the vegetation or tree shadows. Take the case of the excellent track in South Korea; the poles are placed like a chess game, making the track super difficult to see... curiously, the tape continues in UCI XCO and in all other world-class Downhill championships as well... before, with the tape, it...

The foam is for SRAM riders running bluetooth valve stems to protect it from rock strikes. Apparently they've been running them a while.

Serious question... Do Red Bull sponsored athletes get a special pay bonus if they win a Monster race?

Leaving South Korea today just wanted to say thanks to those that gave advice in this thread was really helpful. South Korea is amazing will definitely be back hopefully with a bike next time. Chatted to a few Americans at the race so not sure if your on here but this is me if you recognise me.

I knew it! What a shitty decision. Gotta believe this, as a brand new venue in Asia would’ve been one of the ones to DEFINITELY have boots on the ground. I’m doubly disappointed. Not only on the noticeable drop in quality it brought, but that they were shady with it. Spin it as some sort of pro move, that you’re holding it down in Digital Mountain Bike Studio Four or whatever. Or just say it. I could hear MBeaumont struggling with the location charade but RicMc was saying “here in Korea” …and they only had what?—three people there as mans...

The commentators should know if a feature like a big jump is closed of for safety reasons. As the jump was closed of a day earlier. There is a lack of present representation in the commentators boot.

It was cool to see Mio Suemasa on the Elite women's qualification list.

Yeah. Theres clips of Asa’s pass of HT guy. He did nothing wrong and pulled out just fine to allow the pass.

Aren't the marshals along the course supposed to flag riders who are off-pace and being caught by riders who started after them? This guy would seem to be similar to a rider who gets a flat but continues to ride down the hill. Or do they give a re-run if a rider is impeded by another? They started the riders 30 seconds apart. There were 12 Elite male riders who posted times more than 30 seconds slower than the leader, and 7 of them were slower by 45 seconds or more. I have to think some of those guys were...

What's the point of a new track if the goal is to burn it in like a well known track already... Now, gap jumps up top with nearly 90 degree corners before them and exposed to whatever wind or thick air is siting up top... That's another poll but you probly don't even need to make it.

Even nerdier, there are three pairs of twins in the finals: Till & Max The Mallens Rebecca & Thomas Bruno

It looks like 3 sets of brothers qualified for Finals: Pierron, Alran, and Mallen (Juniors). I have no idea if that's ever been done before, but it's kind of cool to see. I'm guessing they all had good support from their families when they wanted to grow up to be bicycle racers. And maybe some good genetics to start with!