another race for neko to try out the new bike (against better competition on a better track) before heading overseas...
2022 Racing/Team Rumors
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Than You,his squish had much better sound. Perhaps the Track was Soft? It did look pretty tame.
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Sounds like Neko did not race to to a finger injury at DHSE.
Bummer, would have been good to see how he stacked up against Luca who smoked everyone else.
Neko told me he will have “a batch” of new frames ready for Lourdes. Finger is getting plated in Florida today. Fella ran around all weekend making sure everyone was having a great time at the race. what a champ
Surprised Bernard Kerr wasn't more effed up from his crash in the Chile urban DH yesterday. It was an ugly crash.
new frames also coming from Frank?
damn right. the gopro view was horrifying.
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I didn’t ask, but I can’t imagine anyone else making’em!
Sounds like Collin Mullaly will at the least have his own bike to race in the Jr. class at the World Cups, though.
i thought he had a deal w/ specialized / spesh affiliated jr squad?
Holy hell that made me cringe. Ouch
Might have, but for sure Colin is a Frameworks guy this season.
Good stuff as usual from Neko! O-chain FTW?
Interesting decision to use hardware from the Transition Spire. I have one of those frames and the hardware is literally the biggest issue with it. Transition has been replacing horst pivot and shock flip chip hardware for being out of spec. It is for sure the cheapest hardware I have seen on a "nice" bike.....crappy asian bargain bolts.
Interesting decision to use hardware from the Transition Spire. I have one of those frames and the hardware is literally the biggest issue with it. Transition has been replacing horst pivot and shock flip chip hardware for being out of spec. It is for sure the cheapest hardware I have seen on a "nice" bike.....crappy asian bargain bolts.
Neko leaves Intense because Steeber can't make a bike that works. Designs his own high pivot FSR frame.
Steeber, oh shit, that's a novel concept...
Steeber, oh shit, that's a novel concept...
Random new bike thread
No bottle cage inside the triangle, no care. It's called UNCAGED, do you need a drawing, a map, some schematics???
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Brett Rheeder on commencal for 2 years
So if Vital isn't doing its slideshows anymore, who is buying Sven's photos these days? Saw him out on track in one of the track walk videos, but didn't see any of his photos on Pinkbike (or Vital). Boris either. Must be meager times for the photo boys these days, which is too bad because a) their photos were sick and b) they brought lots of enthusiasm and energy to the race coverage, not to mention background and context...
Here are Boris and Svens photos and interviews. https://misspentsummers.com/lourdes-dh-world-cup-2022-zine-report-with-photos-by-sven-martin-boris-beyer-and-sebastian-schieck/
The brands are the ones paying all the money now they always were, just need to hustle a lot harder than you use too
misspentsummer.com must be the "why don't we make our own website with our own content" thing from all the photogs. And I like it. Maybe they should advertise on Pinkbike.... 
Mick Hanna riding for Yeti? Check out his "Team". 4th place in the Sea Pig DH!
Mick Hanna riding for Yeti? Check out his "Team". 4th place in the Sea Pig DH!
It sounded like he took inserts out for more compliance but was still running 25/30 psi, then cracked a rim on a rock that he couldn't see and slowly lost pressure.No Kenda tire, still a flat.
Cathro also said that what he saw happening was by the start of qualis, parts of the fresh gravel up top had gotten worn down in the line everyone was taking in practice, exposing rocks. Same story with that flat rock in the corner before the road gap. He said the bigger teams had people telling them about these so the elite riders could adjust.
Track must have blown up by race day. I can't recall ever seeing so many flats or lost chains. Wyn said it was the roughest Ft Bill race he'd ever been to and he's been going there a pretty long time...
In your head
Zombie, zaaaahmbee...
Mik's been riding e- and regular Yetis for a bit now. He was at Sea Slaughter in Yeti colors and we got to see a signature sui in person at the TDS. /coolstorybro
User error then.
Seems like Thirion broke his elbow this week. No surgery but 6 weeks off the bike. So he'll miss Leogang and probably Andorra. 
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Fracture à l'entrainement pour Rémi Thirion
Rémi Thirion s'est blessé à l'entrainement, le week-end qui précède la manche de Leogang (AUT)...
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