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What's the point of having a B Zone if it isn't going to be cleaned up? You can look to almost any other racing sport to see how track boundaries are specifically designed to help mitigate risk. All auto racing tracks are designed with space on the outside of critical corners to give a buffer from hitting a structure, or if there is no room, the walls are specially constructed to absorb impact. Or look at ski racing, which takes place on these same mountains, and notice the layers of different types of fencing, and the pads on the trees...

What sucks is the UCI highlight video of the last EDR race was almost 30min long and only 3 minutes of that covered the e-EDR race at the end of the video. It seems like the lack of coverage is because of the ebike haters are always whining and complaining about it. They should have equal coverage or a separate highlight video of their own.

Wow! “EDR-E is pretty disgusting”? That seems overly harsh and unwarranted. But dudes who wear leotards or spandex and shave their legs when they ride XC is cool though right?😂👍🏼 So then is any other sports competition that isn’t 100% human powered also disgusting and are they all decided by the person who has the best equipment and not rider or driver skill?? That is one of the stupidest and ignorant statements I’ve heard in along time. The only difference between a regular mountain bike and an emtb is some pedal assistance on the climbs. EMTB’s have little to no...

I see both sides of the safety issue, it indeed is a sport based on risk... My day job is commercial construction management, safety is a huge part of the job. Safety is like anything, it can easily go too far... I for one, watch the streams and am sometimes mortified by a few conditions that seem needlessly unsafe. Most of it is small stuff like having provisions for if/when a rider were to ride off the side of a huge wooden drop/ramp. To not have the area just off course at least evaluated and had a once over, is...

I second Amaury's questions about safety. Our rider Tristan Lemire had a bad crash in practice that caused him to fall just to the side of the track. He came to a stop on the tree pictured here. He was very lucky to have only broken a metacarpal and will be back in Andorra. He very easily could have been impaled by the branches on these logs. He fell directly onto this pile of shrapnel. This is literally 5' off the side of the steepest part of the track inside the B zone. It's insane that this area is not...

for what it's worth, I'm riding a 38 @ 180mm no spacers and 115psi, Even if I lawn dart an 8 foot drop to flat I'll still have 5mm left in the tank. If sag is fine, cut the O-ring off, it should be renamed the anxiety ring.

Loved it! Our Luana took third! So happy for her! Luana is a multiple Romanian National Downhill and Enduro Champion and also holds a collection of medals in snowboard cross too. She rides since 2016, trains all by herself, tries to race as much as possible and she is one of the nicest people ever. Her last name is Cherecheș and you pronounce it ”KEH-REH-CASH”, not ”churches”. ))) Mx

b practice lenzerheide/leogang is up. we recorded a post-lenzherheide show only to have the podcast platform decide to not record anything but 2 hours of black video and flat audio. hence the delay and double-up w/ both lenzer and leogang https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/vitals-b-practice-podcast-lenzerheide…

Sure did. Though I’m not on board with short travel e-bikes personally. If it has a motor it might as well have 160mm plus imo. I was actually hoping for a new sight. But at least there’s no cable tourism

junior dh chaos (awesomeness). fyi, we've nuked the track walk vids to film jr dh practice instead. after realizing how epic the sessions were last week, we made the call. tyler ervin does top-to-bottom track walk in vital insta stories, too.

Show us the shifter!

That might be the best looking DH on the circuit!