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  1. Downhill.Ben

    K9 Industries DH001-S

    Ugly? Yes. Old school in style? Yes. But this is honestly a fantastic bike from all other angles. It pedals aswell, if not better than, anything else out there. It corners effortlessly and takes bumps easily. Until you've ridden one, I'd really not dissmiss it. I'm not sure if the bike is for...
  2. Downhill.Ben

    The latest daft UCI ruling...

    Well it's a bit of a double-edge sword here. How do they expect the sport to grow when it is governed in a way that hampers its growth...?
  3. Downhill.Ben

    The latest daft UCI ruling...

    Nothing. You made the point about kids buying anything. I was just making a point about what you'd discussed.
  4. Downhill.Ben

    The latest daft UCI ruling...

    It was all about promotion, was it not? :confused: Brands didn't like the skinsuit idea - it didn't give them the "right" type of image and the look was "damaging" our sport and sponsors wern't receiving the "right" dividends when riders were wearing lycra. Perhaps itt was also meant to help...
  5. Downhill.Ben

    The latest daft UCI ruling...

    But this ban and the skinsuit ban are two completley contradictory rules.
  6. Downhill.Ben

    The latest daft UCI ruling...

    I like this approach... When the petition gathers enough names, as I'm determind it will, it could be quite a useful tool for a representative of Downhill and 4X within a country to approach their governing body with. Rather than perhaps going straight to the UCI with a few signitures we...
  7. Downhill.Ben

    The latest daft UCI ruling...

    I understand this mate, yer. It just seems daft of them to do a complete U-Turn. As Mr Graves points out; What is the need to show you're national champion. I can't think of another sport that requires a nation's best to wear kit that identifies themself as Champ(I am sure there will be...
  8. Downhill.Ben

    The latest daft UCI ruling...

    Additionally to what has been said above, Road Teams *tend* to get their funding from just one or two big sponsors. DH isn't as priviledged, and riders' income comes from a much greater amount of smaller sponsors. The room allocated in the UCI regs really isn't sufficient to promote all of these...
  9. Downhill.Ben

    The latest daft UCI ruling...

    Can anyone see another side to this ruling that we may have missed? What were the UCI thinking at the time? Can someone enlighten me?
  10. Downhill.Ben

    The latest daft UCI ruling...

    I'll take all responsibility. Happily.
  11. Downhill.Ben

    The latest daft UCI ruling...

    I'm quite aware. If you read the page it says something like "By joining the page you are joining the petition". But yer, even better to sign the official thing.
  12. Downhill.Ben

    The latest daft UCI ruling...

    Essentially, National Champions in all disciplines will have to wear a UCI-regulated jersey for all official race and timed runs throughout the season: The runs that attract the greatest/only media coverage. It's all here to see...
  13. Downhill.Ben

    Windham USA World Cup…..on or off?!

    Thought you may have been. Sorry mate, but it's pretty hard to pick up on humour on forums... I made a good argument though;)
  14. Downhill.Ben

    Windham USA World Cup…..on or off?!

    Gradient has nothing (very lttle to do with it) As has already been pointed out, Fort Bill and MSA aren't particularly steep. But the Fort was voted best DH event for years on the trott, and everyone always seems to enjoy MSA. As long as it's not a pedalfest such as Camberra (and all reports...
  15. Downhill.Ben

    Windham USA World Cup…..on or off?!

    I hope it is true... according to this quote, it would be a shame to lose the course.
  16. Downhill.Ben

    Windham USA World Cup…..on or off?!

    In response to the comments about me judging all US tracks from riding at Mammoth. This is not the case atall. I didn't make it very clear, but I was just using it as an example. I've watched plenty of videos of National Champs, US Races etc and I fully understand that footage never does the...
  17. Downhill.Ben

    Windham USA World Cup…..on or off?!

    Yer, OK. I agree the race was always a success, but eventually it all boiled down to the coorporations wanting more cash...
  18. Downhill.Ben

    Windham USA World Cup…..on or off?!

    But this is always the case with you guys in the States. I'm not meaning that personally atall, so please don't take offence. What I mean to say is that it's all about the money for your industries it would seem. Yes, you are "the" capitalist country, but we here in Europe are pretty damn...
  19. Downhill.Ben

    Trek Session8/88 Tuning

    Not my settings, but my brother's... He weighs 86KG, with kit (That's 190lbs) Using the TFTunes spring calculator, he should be running a 450lbs spring, which we are. This might be very handy for you guys - http://www.tftunedshox.com/info/spring_calculator.aspx On a standard track we...
  20. Downhill.Ben

    Windham USA World Cup…..on or off?!

    Well, today's the day! I've just been on to the UCI Mountain Bike site, and it has changed from yesterday. The Nissan logo has gone, and the calender is up on the Mountain Bike frontpage - which all would suggest that this is them getting ready for 2010. Further, Windham is definitley on the...