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A better quality spy shot appeared on Enduro MTB yesterday http://enduro-mtb.com/en/spyshot-fabien-barel-racing-new-canyon-enduro-bike-prototype/ Definitely trying to hide the link

Awesome concept and great for those wanting to learn off a professional

Dartmoor George... Have you ever heard of a bike called George?

Dartmoor Pitbull Dartmoor Defib (as in Defibrillator - a bike that gets your heart started :) )

I am currently running one of these on a 2012 Canfield the One. I tried working out the settings myself when I first got it (based on some other rider suggestions) and was a bit lost and started blaming the shock a bit. then I used the Base Tune settings suggested on CC website and was grinning like a drunk man in about 8 seconds. HUGE difference. I had to make a few tweeks mainly because I am a lot heavier than some riders, but it really can be set up across such a wide range. This is where I also would argue that it has some downfalls. If using it on a heavy duty enduro/trail bike like I am it can be a case of great on one trail, then a little off on another. With a tool based adjustment this makes it a just a tad painful to adjust, but still has the flexibility to do this. rather than adding dials - how making a single small tool to put over the top of the current knobs?

Having had one of the riders I managed on one of Martin's teams a while back, and having seen the LOI he was given (and knowing that most of us in the industry are pig lazy and thus change the names and dates) I'd say my sources are better than some...

No, leelau, not night court...three years of running a WC team (most of which was spent having lawyers in Europe, the US and Australia tell what to do and what not to do). Their advice at the time seems pretty close to what the few posts on here who seem to know what they are talking about have already stated. (the other piece of advice I was given was never trust any professional athlete who says 'trust me!') The thing missing here that you will see in most professional sports is the big ugly gorilla in the room - the sport's governing body. The UCI couldn't give a rats about MTB team issues - never has. I'd be a bot more worried if I were Gwin in they were more involved as historically governing bodies have sided with whomever whines the loudest, regardless of the legal issues.

Christ - I read about 300 of the posts here and wondered what planet some of you have been living on. 1. As has been presented by a few obviously legally adept types on here, an LOI is not a contract. Yes, it can be written with very binding language, but at the end of the day in 90% of the jurisdictions it is NOT a contract. 2. Gwin left no-one 'in the lurch'. MTB has no 'trading period' - just ridiculous calendar year contracts with clauses banning negotiation with others until the end of such period. As a president of IMTTO, Martin Whitely would know this... 3. MTB is as much about loyalty as every professional sport - so not very much at all. The fact that some of you feel differently simply shows that the marketing used to leverage off these commercial arrangements is working well, so well done to the marketing folk! 4. A real PROFESSIONAL - and I am not just talking about Gwin here, MR WHITELY - does not air their dirty laundry in public. If the legal issues get sorted on your side then fine, put out a press release, but now you will look like a bit of a tool if it turns out Gwin was, as I suspect, perfectly within his legal rights to pursue another deal. to the best of my knowledge, Gwinny has made no comments of a disparaging nature towards TWR.... he has instead acted in a professional manner.

Be like the gecko... be like the gecko!