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Anyone catch Bruni with the Seatpost mounted TMD? New for him during racing as far as I’ve seen

Top 5 Elite women in the standings after Korea: Höll - 216 points Scarsi - 190 Harnden - 175 Nicole - 165 Roa Sanchez - 150 Top 5 Elite men: Vermette - 250 Bruni - 180 Pierron - 180 Vergier - 150 Pontvianne - 132 Top 5 teams: Commençal Riding Addiction -120 Commençal Schwalbe - 87 Frameworks - 57 M-S Racing - 55 Canyon DH - 53 Notes: Privateer Antoine Rogge is 18th in points. He also finished 18th in Q1 as well as in the Final. Kind of amazing how that works. (I've always rooted for him since he...

South Korea Fantasy results should be dropping shortly. Note that the UCI apparently changed the points structure this year. 200 for 1st in Elite instead of 250 and so on. We used the points structure they used for the race to determine results (image of Elite Men's PDF w/ points below). I'll update the points table in "how to play" before the next round. What a race though! Thanks to all for playing! @pshthatsme - we'll look into your request before the next round.

Maxon AirS

MORE RAW! Natural. This is freaking sweet. Need more tracks like this style.

EU has right to repair law going into effect July. I believe any motor sold new in the EU at that point requires repair parts for 7-10yr. So theoretically there will be parts out there somewhere in the world, hopefully parts trickle down to US.

lawlor just now confirmed dak is NOT on a 32" wheel.

The V10 XL is 29" stock. Are you sure this isn't converting it to a 27.5"? The axle position suggests it's raising the rear end up to compensate for the smaller wheel.

We are not/haven't been running it.

Maxxis DHX just mentioned at the DH World Cup

I wrote this on Pinkbike but will crosspost here to as I firmly believe ABS should not be involved in WCDH. I'm all for innovation in DH and I am absolutely fine with electronics in suspension but I strongly believe that ABS has no place in competitive DH. Braking ability and threshold braking are massively important skill that do separate riders. Having a system that would theoretically allow a rider to just full pull brake but not lock the wheels would be a huge advantage on most tracks and certainly would for low grip tracks or conditions. Formula One as...

ABS brakes on Giants? @Sugarbrad what's the deal???

Game is live! https://www.vitalmtb.com/fantasy/2026/round-1-south-korea @bas i'll DM you.

game closes a few hours before finals, so AFTER qualis. note the timer at the upper left of vital pages - closing is around 5pm Friday PST IIRC. the consensus was to leave it like we always have in that regard.

Nice, feels weird only having 7 riders instead of 15 like most rounds last year So as per the podcast, the cuttoff is before any qualies this year/round right?

I wouldn't be surprised if a 32" rear wheeled bike would need an ochain (or an idler enabled "high pivot" design) at much lower travel numbers than what we are used to. Antisquat is a function of pivot height vs. rear axle and chain growth. The more AS you get from the pivot height, the less you need from the chain itself. As we moved from 26" wheels towards 29" wheels, the effective pivot height was dropping as the main pivot still needs to be in the vicinity of the BB for everything to work more or less normally. The...

More deets on new Ochain B1 - https://www.vitalmtb.com/product/guide/chainrings/ochain/r-chainring-sp… TLDR: SRAM has taken over manufacturing and has improved the tolerances and sealing of the system to keep stuff from getting in, increasing service intervals. They’ve also introduced an external travel adjust upgrade kit to convert internally adjustable models. And the new B1 models are only available for SRAM 3/8-bolt cranks and Bosch’s CX5 motor. No more Shimano/Race Face models. I’ve ridden one for almost three months and it has faired way better than any Ochain I’ve had in the past. No creaking, no need to clean it out yet. The elastomers...

I'm not sure if this is an indication it's close to release, but Norco just posted pics of the dh bike ahead of Korea and it's got "Team DH" printed on the top tube. Would be cool (and make sense) if they went back to the Team DH name for the race bike.