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JoseMPM seb-stott's article
Jul 28, 2022 at 6:51
Jul 28, 2022
Pinkbike Poll: Are You Satisfied With Your Brakes?
@BikesBoatsNJeeps: yup, I love the caliper but I hated the lever with a passion on my MT7s. Swapped them for SLX levers, and haven't looked back since. Have the same pair swapped to the 3rd bike and counting, I feel the combo remedies what to me is Shimano's only weak point: the bleed nipple on the calipers and push on syringe, which has a tendency to flap out. With Shiguras you screw the bucket on top and the syringe at the bottom, comfortably bleed them, and happy days. And the feel of the lever is sweet.
JoseMPM mattwragg's article
Jun 29, 2022 at 6:12
Jun 29, 2022
Opinion: Be More Like Chris
Great great article, everybody should be more like Chris.
JoseMPM seb-stott's article
Jun 29, 2022 at 3:30
Jun 29, 2022
Opinion: Why You Shouldn't Care What the Pros Ride
It might be taking it way into the philosophical side, but... why would anybody need the bike to mask their riding's deficiencies? I can get behind of Amaury or Greg needing long bikes to go a million miles an hour down Mt St Anne and control it, but while it is true that a longer bike is more stable at speed, it is also much harder to get into turns (and if we are honest most average joes' first "to do" on the list is corner better), manual/wheelie, readjust in the air... in short, much less maneuvrable. I might be alone on this, but as an average joe, what I want my bike to be no 1,2 and 3 is FUN, with capital letters, and to me that means poppy, reactive, able to go down anywhere. Do I think a longer bike would be better when riding a DH world cup track or going faster than I know I should be rinding? Yes I do. But that to me does not make up for the 95% rest of the time. I'd much rather rely on my own skills and balance to keep the bike level and have a lively bike. PS: Anecdotical evidence at best, but I ride a 2021 Meta AM29 in size M (I am 1,78), and last weekend got to try the AM SX in size L, and to my needs and expectations of a bike, I was happy to see my reasoning for going for an M myself and not an L confirmed: the L felt massive for me, and uncomfortable in turns/manuals/jumps... aka what makes bike riding furn for me.
JoseMPM sarahmoore's article
Oct 15, 2021 at 9:47
Oct 15, 2021
15 Bikes of Red Bull Rampage - Vote For Your Favourite
Well that answers my question. That is by the looks of it the new or at least a prototype Torque. It looks 95% like a spectral, but the link is a bit bigger, and the seattstays go on the inside of the link instead of on the outside like the Spectral. Looks pretty cool with the double crown.
JoseMPM mikekazimer's article
Oct 13, 2021 at 14:07
Oct 13, 2021
Opinion: Freeride is Dead, Long Live Freeride
@leon-forfar: It is true that both riding and bikes have progressed a lot, for sure, but let's stick with Rheeder for a sec: the opening of his 2018 run was a manicured jump which most of them could straight air on a dj bike, and the key was an "oppo 360". That to me is not freeride. The chutes Zink or Lacondeguy built are to me much more in the spirit of Rampage. Even Zink's 360 or backflips of the Oakley sender, yes, that is wood and a massive patted landing, but those are first timers going way beyond what anybody had done before, so hats off to that (even if to me Gee's line was more deserving of the win, as other than the 360, impressive as it was, Zink did not do so much), but bulding smaller jumps to add more tricks in my eyes defeats the purpose of freeride/Rampage. And Brendan showed you can actually deviate and find cool features (like The Rock), without needing to pack you run with slopestyle tricks. I am curious to see how Brage will score this year, he seems to be going away from the already done lines and going for rougher stuff, intrigued to see if he a) lands it and b) how it scores. Kinda scared for him, the dude seems to know no pain, a la Bulldog, and goes massive with seemingly reckless abandon (I do know that even then he is in more control than most of us). I do hope everybody gets their lines in and their runs clean, without any (more, get well soon Andreu) injuries or big crashes.
JoseMPM mikekazimer's article
Oct 13, 2021 at 13:17
Oct 13, 2021
Opinion: Freeride is Dead, Long Live Freeride
For me personally it is not the fact that they have buildcrews, it is the fact that some competitors are making Rampage a big slopestyle line, which in my eyes takes away from what Rampage is. And I don't buy the argument "it is only because you cannot do it", since I can neither do tailwhips nor huck a line like Andreu's, or what to me was one of the coolest lines ever at Rampage, flow from top to bottom at mach 3 without seemingly barely touching the brakes like Gee in 2010 (and also in 2012 before he smashed himself out). I don't want them landing on untouched soft dirt and going OTB, but when the line itself and the riding and steepness/gnarliness factor stops being the key feature and the highlight is a 720 bar, to me it is not freeride anymore but slopestyle. Take for example Bret Rheeder 2018's run: brilliant riding, and way out of reach for any of us, but when the focus of the commentary (and the judging) is "oppo 360, can can backflip...." instead of on the line, to me it takes away from it, and I would much rather see lines where the focus is on the terrain and the line itself, like for example Brendog's line. The creativity on the line itself was great, the riding close to flawless, but yet he needed to put some flips just to get into a top 5. That to me is a shame, as it takes the focus away from where (in my opinion) it should be, the line itself and how good and flowy said line is ridden.
JoseMPM pinkbikeoriginals's article
Oct 13, 2021 at 13:00
Oct 13, 2021
JoseMPM pinkbikeoriginals's article
Oct 13, 2021 at 13:00
Oct 13, 2021
Video: 5 Custom Freeride Bikes from Red Bull Rampage 2021
@Afterschoolsports: not really, the sender (both alu and carbon) look a lot different. It really looks like a Spectral, which is very weird. Like the bike is massively playful, but for Rampage...
JoseMPM pinkbikeaudience's article
Oct 13, 2021 at 3:34
Oct 13, 2021
Red Bull Rampage Fantasy Contest: Win a RockShox Zeb Ultimate
1. Lacondeguy 94 2. Semenuk 92 3. Bestavik 89
JoseMPM alicialeggett's article
Sep 29, 2021 at 2:37
Sep 29, 2021
Video: Karl Immers Throws Wild BMX Tricks in a Tribute to His Kids
That last clip. I cannot count the rotations no matter how hard I try. Somewhere Nicoli Rogatkin is already trying to figure out how to bring it to mtb.
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