lol, I can guarantee you that Trek has done multiple data acquisition with Fox, the heating hut and wind tunnel testing is simply way beyond simple suspension testing...just saying.
exactly, people are so f'ing spoilt these days and self-entitled....remember when you had to wait 3 months for the next issue of MBA to come out and find out what happened?
Didn't he?
Exactly.
MSA is awesome. There is a little camper city - not right at the bottom, but in walking distance.
womens racing sucks because there's only 2 women who can actually race the track, UCI needs to be more like FIS and have a separate course for women.
I felt bad for Pompon, it looked like she caught two people. I wonder how many seconds that set her back. Of course one way to solve that problem is to qualify better.
Perhaps not only that, but how about automatic adjusting suspension for different parts of the track? It could easily be done with servos and an odometer to tell the cpu the bike's location on the track.
oh god please no
Haha! As a rider, this doesn't appeal to me one bit. But as an engineer... Imagine, having a heavy pedaling platform or even lockout on the smooth portions of the track where they're hammering, wide open settings on the rough portions... This would give the rider a real advantage.
lapierre and nico agree with this, albeit not location based but terrain based.
He took more "Sam Hill like lines" than Sam Hill did. He definitely didn't leave anything out there.
Harkening back to the days of Anne-Caro and when-Peat-could not-catch-Voulloz-for-anything.......
I would like to see some extra curricular enduro action between Rachel and AC. Every one else is doing it.
On the other hand Fairclough appeared to sheep line his entire run. Almost looked like he needs line choice coaching
Sunn and a few other teams did plenty of that in the nineties.
I'm 90% sure that was a feature developed using piezo-valves and incorporated into both a K2 fork and some kinda Cannondale wunderbike before the UCI killed the use of computing gear on DH bikes for race runs.
There was a notorious article about the state of women's DH racing that got put to rest pretty quickly when AC put in a time that would have been top 10 mens at a NORBA race many moons ago.
Oh well played sir!
I recall A-C grew up racing BMX against her older brothers as there weren't any female races at the time. Rachel likely grew up riding with her brothers. Seems to be the formula for success in this sport. Why there wasn't anyone dominating between the two same thing goes for men's field too, we don't always have someone dominating, after Nico retired there was great competition for many years until Mr. Hill arrived. Peat and Minaar were very consistent being at the top but I wouldn't say either dominated. Also, Rachel is awesome and not to take anything away from her accomplishments but A-C has 13 Rainbow jerseys to her name plus 5 consecutive years of World Cup overall titles and Olympic Gold for BMX, Rachel has a little catching up to do before you throw them in the same category. I also think the women's field was bigger back when A-C raced but I don't know that for sure.
Having watched AC and TMO at a few Megas, i think AC could still smoke most of them. Just seeing how AC rides the Glacier ist just way faster and more composed than any other girl dares. In fact shes still so fast she comes relaxed into the finish areas, because shes not threatened at all during Race/Qualy.
so the bike choose which lines to take? it's getting silly now...
Gee didn't ride all that slow! He did take 2nd which is never bad at a WC. Not quite the same as Gwin taking 20th. Remember the 2 years of Gwin domination he came in 2nd once or twice
