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For what it's worth, I had the chance to ride my old tyre setup for one short trail over the weekend on a borrowed bike while otherwise riding my bike for most of the ride. The borrowed bike had an admittedly quite worn Big Betty in the rear and a Magic Mary in the front, both diagonal trail, soft, set to my old pressures of 1,4 bar, and the grip was nowhere. My bike is equipped with radial US Magic Mary in the front and a soft Romy in the rear and the difference in very dry, loose conditions was...

Agreed on all of the above. Rather than having a different line of colors and names, they'd be better off putting lighter tuned shocks, shorter cranks, narrower bars/saddles, and smaller grips on the size XS and S Santa Cruz bikes. That will help smaller riders of both genders.

Downhill has been submitted as a new olympic Discipline for the Summer Games in Brisbane 2032. Now the IOC has to approve it…

It isn't like inflation statistics are difficult to find. Based on those tables, the highest rate of annual CPI inflation in the US this century was 3.8% (2008, i.e. The GFC) and the average was 2.1%... until COVID happened. Since then the average has been 4.4%. If that continues, it will take less than ten years to exceed the preceding 20. Although if you're here to complain about the concept of inflation in the first place, well I can't help you there.

Pressures seem way off. I'm 150lb and on my trail casing running 25/28 on a 140 trail bike. On a heckler (assumed 50lb) at 210 lbs, wolftooth calculator you should be running 30-34psi. I recommend dowloading the app "tire pressure calculator" from wolftooth. Put in radial as the casing type. It seems to be pretty accurate for me. I have time on Schwalbe Trail Radial and Specialized Gravity Radial. I would say the latter is more similar to a regular tire, with better support. Additionally with Spec they recommend "normal" pressures, so I have been at 22/24, and works well...

How is GoPro not related when I'm watching winning world cup race runs week in and week out on the GoPro Bike YouTube Channel? (Daks helmet sponsor too) On YouTube GoPro Bike has 91k subs vs GoPro Snow at 152k. I honestly thought the gulf of bike to snow would be much larger. Seems like bikes are a huge segment of the market for GoPro (and it's slowly slipping to Insta360 and DJI) I bet a fair amount of people in here have owned a GoPro and basically only used it on their bike. Highly relevant.

Gopro officially goes through with their merger according to PB. I know it had been speculated about here. I had hoped there would be a bankruptcy discount but now unless I pretend to be a warlord I may be out of luck.

I don't think this has anything to do with environmental protection but instead the organisation of the event. Do you guys not remember how often course marshalls were busy fixing the tape when a racer missed a line and went through it during practice? Or how often tape got wrapped in a wheel and dragged with the rider for the remainder of the run? Not talking about all the helmet POV cam footage where at every stop during practice the racers needed to lift the tape to get off an on course. I think the pole are an improvement from...

gotta hand it to canyon, when it comes to aesthetics they are hard to beat. Their bikes and kit almost always look slick and clean.

Droolworthy pics from Canyon:

Todays races were epic, i even shed tears for Hattie. Too bad there will be no WynTV for this one though.

There is probably single digit mm2 of contact area, the pressure acting on that surface is going to be huge! I don't think the you'd be able to feel a soft tape like that and it's likely to just disintegrate in the hub and cause issues.

October to March series. Southern hemisphere and places that have milder climates year around.

How did we ever have fun riding bikes as kids before batteries and motors? What a terrible childhood I must have had.

This is an Axel: This is an axle:

Im excited to watch this on replay after I know nobody got seriously injured or died.

I don’t think they would work for Rampage riding. There would’ve been no direct indication Adolf was going to crash until he hit the ground for an imbedded gyroscopic sensor.