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This was covered in this Vital podcast... they knew very early in the season that Intense wasn't going to be continuing with Gwin's program.

Happy that Pinkerton, Dunne, and Dak all found (assuming the big budget thing for Mondraker is real) pretty good rides. That being said, mondraker marketing tried to drag this bs on for way too long. Hype it up, announce it, be done with it.

You are odd mate. The “soul” you are talking about was founded on illegal trails. Go back to the other site

The admittedly unclear implication was that “we” derailed the thread and I neither endorsed unsanctioned trails nor demonized them. I just gave us a new place to argue about it. I am keenly aware of and sensitive to the potential for unsanctioned trails to impact legal access. I more took issue with the term eco-crimes and the idea that these trails cause any more meaningful damage than legal trails which seemed a bit extreme in the grand scheme of the late capitalist human shitshow. I will say that the original sin of American MTB occurred in a place where to...

Guessing this will take about 2 more days.

So not before 24th. Got it.

Dylan Maples on Commencal Mucoff confirmed by Dharco https://www.instagram.com/p/C2OCAGQhV_w/?igsh=MTQyZzRjZmN5dHQ2OQ==

I appreciate the hope you all have for frameworks but I think a lot of you are holding it up to be the next syndicate-esque mega team or something. This is literally a passion project that Neko started very recently. He’s accomplished a lot but let’s not start assuming every big name is headed there.

reading is hard. my name is right under the homepage post.

This is an awkwardly ironic Eurocentric take. Sure, us Yanks can too often be parochial, but this isn't that. "World Cup" DH is now just a 7-stop Euro Cup, and everyone knows it. No Asia, N or S America, Africa, Australia, Oceania. It sure feels like WBD knows the core market is Europe and is bailing on the rest of us to keep logistics easy and costs in check. Even the viewer packages are very Eurocentric. Everywhere else it's either non-existent or lumped into an overpriced package that isn't compelling at al. View live races? Europe only (*edit: due to...

i put this in the racing talk forum too, but hooray for #USDH! https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/monster-energy-pro-downhill…

Greg off Syndicate, Levy off Pinkbike. Don’t even think about it Spomer.

I know that there is a tangential connection to team rumors, but the correlation is getting really thin. Any way y'all could move the EMTB sales talk to a different thread?

i'm pretty blown away to have to say this to grown adults (i assume) in our forum, but every time someone trolls or says something you don't like, quoting it and explaining why it's lame/unsavory/kooky/political only makes the thing you dislike live on for days. in the history of the internet, has anyone ever changed their mind and said "you're right," after being challenged/critiqued/criticized/called out in a forum? not that i'm aware of. the garbage has been moderated for now. if you don't like something said here, use the thumbs down, move on, watch it die and it'll be forgotten...