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June 24th They are very good if you want the ultimate enduro/ebike smash down steep stuff fork.

Thanks for the post Spomer. I was litereally looking at a V10 yesterday and thinking "man, I'm still surprised nobody has really retrofitted a good solid batter+motor to DH bikes yet that has a throttle". While I may be dreaming to some extent there, the one thing I'd like to point out is we've been hearing the same thing for over 5 years and from what I can tell, not much has happened. E-Bikes haven't served catalyst to mass trail closures. I see zero data to suggest more trail conflicts are occuring. The sky is not in fact falling. This...

barely within 2000 but Jurgen Beneke has been 2nd 3 times and somehow has an overall and 2 runner up seasons. don't see any wins registered. not sure how points worked back then 🤷‍♂️ active from 92-09 (would love to know more about his career/story)

Was going to mention the DT internals from Mic. He stated that multiple riders are running them, but didn’t point towards who. As for the steer tube shake weights, I think you need to just start causally sliding your finger into some tubes….definitely keep a tally for reactions to that one please.

I found it insulting to the racers and the sport. We have a bigger star from a bigger sport than mtb so let's suck up to him and not talk about the action that happening in this minor league sport. Like having Ken Roczen there some how legitimized downhill racing. It certainly doesn't hurt to recognize that legends from other sports are into dh, but a couple of quick discussions between race runs would have sufficed.

try to count to 30 in 2.668 seconds. that's making the show LOL.

Were track conditions improving through the day? The top 15 from Q2 had times that would have put them in the top 20 in Q1, with Kolb, Gwin and LMS all beating Loris!!!

Agree with this. I think WBD is going to need to really consider a live broadcast of qualifying (especially Q2). It's been fun this year and today's Q2 times show how much everyone is laying it on the line. This could be a value add for the big teams because they will get 1.5 -2X exposure with quali and finals with people paying attention.

I know I'm probably asking too much, but separation of Q1 and Q2 results would be good, so we can look at who got through without risking seeing the Q2 results before watching the replay.

Regarding " And we are losing people perfectly capable of winning the race on race day from participating..." this one is interesting to me. If they are perfectly capable of winning on race day, then they are surely capable of qualifying for one of the 30 spots. A few other people have expressed the same opinion "but we are losing some of the fast guys now..." which seems to imply that the new qualifying format is somehow putting some of the fast guys at a disadvantage? I think there's definitely a generational shift going on, and many of the riders...

https://youtu.be/-oiwsn6G8MQ?si=qZFhHjdUsbd_qANb Sleeper edit

Losing Vital Raw hits hard, ngl, its just a big part of the DH weekend.

Make tiers to how it functions. The NX Ochain has lead installed into it to make it a little heavier and 2° of disengagement. Then the GX is a smidge lighter but it contains more degrees of disengagement. The Eagle Pro Premium will give you 360° of disengagement as well a cool bird and the additional benefit of less mass moving on your body because you just emptied your wallet to buy it.

This is a step backwards. They should’ve made a full power, long travel, up and downhill beast as light as possible. Preferably with a gearbox motor and belt drive with the option for a big or small battery.

Same here. Cost seems good for what you get. I think the commentary could be better but it's certainly acceptable. Rick is getting better and I really like Neko. Warner and Neko would be great, but that's not going to happen so I'll take what I can get. The racing was really good too, and as much as I hate that there are extremely capable guys missing the finals, 30 riders makes for less of an epic than it used to be, much easier to digest the whole thing without getting bored. I do think that there should be a...

Crestline went DJI. Wasn't on my 2025 E-bike Bingo card That's a full power, 800wh battery bike. Jeebus!