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@commental: Gotta chime in here y’all. For what it’s worth Tahnee Seagrave is a beautiful, talented, young woman. She’s a good example and ambassador for this amazing sport as are many of her fellow riders. My 15yo daughter happens to find women like Tahnee inspiring because she is a top athlete in a very demanding dangerous sport along with being very feminine at the same time. There’s no shame in being talented and attractive. Just because you notice someone is good looking, hot or whatever doesn’t mean you’re objectifying and dehumanizing them. It simply means they happen to be easy on the eyes. Which is one aspect of their humanity. “Creepy” is in intent and context. This world needs to lighten up.

This survey tells me one thing…. Riders need to get paid more!!! In many sports the salaries are waaaaay higher. MTB is where baseball was in the early 20th century. Yogi Berra used to have to tend bar during the winter just to make ends meet. Player’s unions and the consequent better contracts changed all that for future generations. Remember athlete’s careers are relatively short lived compared to “normal” jobs. Pay them.

I’m happy to pay for proper coverage and the correct people in the broadcast booth!!!

@mitch1616: Good on ya Mitch set the record straight. You work you should get paid, not be told to “Go eat cake.”

It’s high time these athletes every one of them are given some minimum compensation for participating at the highest levels of this sport. The slopestyle event is the big draw at Crankworx and to not even be compensated for travel expenses is insulting. These guys are striking a blow for all professional mountain bikers to make this a viable professional sport. Good on em I say! It’s about damn time! They’ve exhausted every reasonable path it seems and the Crankworx organizers and their corporate backers have essentially told them to go eat cake! How insulting to have a banquet for the corporate folks and not even invite a single rider. I have never ever been to a single major sporting event hoping to get a glimpse of a team owner sitting the the big plush box. I do hope however to be treated to some amazing performances of athletics by the players. No riders, no sport, no money for the greedy fat cats sitting in the box. Time to pay up folks! The money and the athletes all need to work together. It can’t be so one sided.

@lumpy873: You’re obviously a right wing pick your self up by your bootstraps conservative. Go fly your damn MAGA flag.

Didn’t Chris Cocalis used to own a bike company that made full suspension titanium frames? Why the aluminum lugs? If galvanic corrosion is a known issue between aluminum and carbon fiber? Obviously there’s treatment to prevent that but according to some of the engineer’s comments it’s a high end lab grade process to do that. Why not simply make the lugs from titanium the way the Athertons do? Chris obviously knows titanium.

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