Video: Meribel Madness - DH Highlights

 This. Thank you so much.

 Then we all better hope that the venues pony up and offer their track to the UCI in order to hold a race there.

 What makes people say that the UCI is behind the tracks being less rough / proper and more pedally? Never understood what would be in it for them. I figure its got more to do with what ka-brap is saying...venues with resources and organization enough to host WCs. Hafjell (which all the riders seemed to like), for example, is apparently disappearing from the circuit because of internal financial/admin problems, not because of the UCI.

 I think if you look at the IXS cup schedule this year then you would see that there are lots of venues available to hold top level dh races. Obviously there is a reason they chose to go with the IXS cup and not the UCI world cup this year. That is my point. The UCI gets to select out of the venues that apply. Perhaps UCI is charging too much money. It's a joke to have the winner of the world cup take home a couple thousand euros, for the venue to have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars, for the UCI to walk away without any real cares, and DH having nothing to show for it but lackluster courses that the riders loathe.

Also, UCI has a technical delegate that could approach each venue and say "this is bullshit, we don't want the best riders in the world using trail bikes, we want to demonstrate their skills. Please construct a more appropriate track or we will not take your copious amounts of money next year".

It pretty much boils down to the UCI sucking, focusing on the money and not the growth of the sport because all they seem to care about is the road racing and forcing XCE down our throats.

 In addition to being pro racers and expert engineers, every pinkbike user is an expert on the uci

 Just an FYI- the UCI's gravity technical delegate is David Vazquez, an ex-World Cup racer who has a fairly solid track record with 4 wins, a European Championship title, along with 2nd and 3rd Overall results to his name. He is heavily involved with track selection, finding new venues for the races, and gathering all of the feedback following a race. I'm sure he isn't 100% responsible but at least we have an ex-racer who is passionate about the sport and trying his best to make the races awesome.

 I believe it's us that are more and more used to it....

 Does that mean our English is getting worse?

 rewinding video just to make sure I didn't miss anything important.

 I think you forget Loic, Gee and Greg!

 That would have made more than 5....

 SikFknMik will be back to his best soon too. Champs/ next season is going to be FKn mental

 Sick mick is coming back with a vengeace... dont count him out

 Too many good racers! You NEVER know who is going to win!!

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 You have to watch in 240p when living in BFE Texas, USA, broski.