OH BOY! The 2025 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup Downhill season is finally here and there is a LOT of new tech and anticipation as the teams roll into Poland. Tuned mass dampers, gearboxes, electro-gadgets and anything that dampens or silences is fair game. Rick Schubert checks in from the pits before the chaos ensues.
Maxxis seems to have something new here. Whether it is a new compound or a casing, we don't know yet.Minion DHR II in testing.Scott's new Gambler.Ethan Craik is using the Rimpact chain damper.As well as a Rimpact TMD in the steer tube.Custom linkages everywhere in the Scott pits.Ollie Davis' Trek Session after a long off-season of testing and tweaking.No Flight Attendant for OllieThat bling on the progression flipchip tho...KIQS system? Keep It Quiet, Stupid?Lachie getting electric with Flight AttendantMiddle hole?Subtle changes can mean big gains on track.Little pink houses for you and me.Vali's YT TUESAlugear chainrings on 3 of the 4 YT TUES bikes.Kasper Wooley is running a TMD in the front. Unluckily he broke a finger and won't be able to line up this weekend.Oisin on the weight watcher's program.Most of the YT MOB riders were using the O-Chain system last year. This time around there weren't any to be seen, but all are running a DT Swiss hubRockShox with some interesting new light system on Vali's YT TuesAon Racing pits.Cycling through the Manitou boingers.Carbon tubes added for stiffness.
Last weekend's EDR winner Hattie Harnden is going full DH from now on. Chase that 100k!Vali Roa Sanchez's Zerode for MS-Racing.Hope brakes and wheels for MS.TMD for VRS on MS.SR Suntour squishiness.Unior Sinter's brake bedding machine. Strap the bike on, spin up the wheel, squeeze the lever.Henri Kiefer's fresh Sender. He was on a black one at Windrock and PDS #1.Troy Brosnan's Sender.Thankfully Troy is a professional, so he can handle this prototype. Let's not forget, he's the most recent World Cup DH winner.Marine's Sender.Atherton awesomeness.Orbea's DH bike under the diaper. Hopefully it grows out of the diaper soon so we can see what's going on.Maes powering up.Pivot Phoenix in no-chainz mode.Shiny.Pit bits photo from 2005 or 2025? If it Sain't broke, why fix it?Is NDH a new derailleur hanger standard for tires?e.thirteen Sidekick hub.New wheels for the Syndicate.We counted. 10 speeds. Syndicate pits.If you took off the logos and plopped this down on a cliffside in Laguna, you'd be looking at a $19 million dollar home. Commencal.
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