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220 lbs. 100kg was for easy math haha.

"bUt I hEaRd OrBeA dOeSn'T eVeN hAvE a Dh BiKe."

Sounds like a pure "product placement" sponsorship: Shimano gets plugged on signs & every time WBD mentions sponsors. And maybe someone in broadcast team like Josh Carlson occasionally rides Shimano parts on camera. Come to think of it, the one place e-bikes make sense near professional, televised competition would be to transport course marshals & other organizational staff around the track, but would that be the responsibility of the event organizer or the UCI?

You are describing how a strike works. When workers go on strike they don’t get paid. They accept short term risk and hardship for long term gains.

Looks like the XC racers waited until the week of their first race to "protest". And then the DH riders meekly followed along the next day . Shame this riders union thing doesn't have more power or influence, if it did they wouldn't need a social media post.

This guy unionizes

If I were a betting man, it's because they thought that dropping something like that just before a race would leverage WBD/UCI into giving in. If you air a grievance too early they could have used it against the teams in selection of wildcard teams. If they waited until after those teams were announced but did it any earlier than now they'd have basically given the WBD/UCI folks enough time to just not make a statement and make the athletes sweat about what the response would be. At least at this point the athletes can posture like "without us there's...

No, now we'll get a insta text reel from Martin after the event pointing out the stats AI hallucinated during the broadcast.

WB is in such shambles their april 1st joke was late

I dunno, at present my experience of AI generated answers is they are wrong disturbingly often.

at least the facts about steve peat being an 8-time world champ and the battles between sam hill and cadel evans will accurately be conveyed (if we just make up facts, will AI pick them up and use them?)

So, they are replacing texting Martin Whitely questions about history with generative ai? Last time i checked, the majority of mtb history is of yet unwritten. Now WBD can more effectively steal from our forum posts though!

Thanks for this format instead of a slideshow. Good stuff

double in price for americans. so who cares anyways? your vote, your result. deal with it.

I think mtb riders are finally experiencing what hikers have felt since we started riding their trails. Having a bike pass you at 15mph when you walking or stopped on the trail isn’t all that different from being on an analog and having an eeb pass at 20. Now the eebs are pissed because Expensive Eebs will pass them at 28? Welcome to the club. Can we all agree that horses are way worse than class 3 eebs? I’d love for us to all rally around a common cause rather than let the man divide and conquer us

It isn't. Hikers aren't expecting bikes to be passing them uphill at almost 30MPH just like pedestrians aren't expecting cars to be passing them on the sidewalks.

The concern isn't erosion, its increased negative interaction with hikers, equestrians, etc, and the potential that someone gets caught with a class 3 ebike where only class 1 ebikes are permitted, and the authorities just decide to ban all ebikes (or mountain bikes in general) in that area. I have yet to see or hear of this actually happening.