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@pierceklinke: Yeah, same. Went from watching almost all, minus a weekend or two that I was out of town, to watching literally none and hardly keeping up on the results. I get the athletes have a different perspective, but I don't know how anyone on the inside is looking at their metrics and the viewer poll here and think that they're doing anything but kill this sport.

Ditto.

Meh, yes cheap PEV's catch fire more than better engineered ones... Electric RC's were driving this stat for decades and no one cared. PEV's are a net good and thats coming from a car driving gasoline loving american.

@elbandido77: dude did you even read my comment? Can you seriously look in the mirror and say fully funding Rampage and Hardline makes any meaningful difference in Red Bull sales? I’d be willing to bet it doesn’t. And you’re correct the athletes involved are entitled to withdraw, but let’s reverse the roles. Let’s say red bull “withdraws” this sport has essentially no marquee sponsors which is necessary to get the athletes paid. We still have a long way to go down from where we are, look at what happened to rollerblading in the 90s, paintball in the 00s and the whole lot of other action sports which never remotely “made it” (BASE jumping, wake boarding etc…). It’s not popular to talk about on PB but the reality is there isn’t much money in mountain biking as a spectator sport and lamenting the handful of sponsors that make it happen is counter productive in the long term.

Stay in school kids!

@RonSauce: uh redbull pays a ton of athletes and literally foots the bill 100% for things like rampage and hardline. All for what a couple thousand die hard mtbers to watch, in a way they can’t monetize at all? It’s seems to be popular to bite the hand that feeds in this sport and tbh I don’t know why Red Bull even bothers… when they decide it’s just not worth it PB is gonna be really moany.

How is this plastic different from the other plastic?

I've never been so sure of anything in my life, when I say I have 0 interest in ever using suspension telemetry equipment on a bicycle. Unless you're an engineer doing R&D work on a frame as your job, this is 100% kook shit.

Brother, I assure, literally anything else would be a better use of you're time than typing that out.

3 you Levy!