Brines and Eddie are right- this ain't a new problem at all. I speak from personal experience in the late 90's when I ate an extremely hard to get $600 on a plane ticket I couldn't use to travel to Italy, Slovenia, and France for 3 WC DH races. Why couldn't I go? Because my UCI...more
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Brines and Eddie are right- this ain't a new problem at all. I speak from personal experience in the late 90's when I ate an extremely hard to get $600 on a plane ticket I couldn't use to travel to Italy, Slovenia, and France for 3 WC DH races. Why couldn't I go? Because my UCI...more
Liked a comment on the item Eddie Masters Thinks the UCI Is Suffocating Downhill Racing
Can't speak for other countries, but if you're a US rider you pretty much need to be rich to get into World Cups. DH isn't a cheap sport, but traveling the country for 5 races that get you UCI points (and not even that many) is crazy. Expecting people to max out credit cards and...more
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Agreed that it's pretty hopeless to get one shock tune that works across size runs and for most rider skill levels. In a perfect world, companies would either use different shock tunes for different sizes (Like Ibis "Roxy tune") or would use a slightly different shock mount for every size...more
Liked a comment on the item Marginal Gains: There’s Nothing *Stock* About Stock Suspension
Whether a company has a “stock” fox tune, or a custom tune (yeti, ibis, Norco) doesn’t really matter if it’s the same across the size range. Bolting the same shock on an xs all the way up to an xl, still leaves the ends of the spectrum at a disadvantage. Ibis did the roxy tune for a long...more
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