More Tech Randoms: Bielsko-Biała DH World Cup 2024

 Agree. Pretty cool.

 I do it at National level for my rider (my son) and sometimes it feels like half the National DH youth/Juvenile paddock and to be honest it's mostly a relief to see the riders get to the bottom, the result isn't important at times. At Rhyd-Y-Felin last weekend i fixed and repaired 5 bikes in the pits over race weekend, none of them being my boy. One of them was a new drivetrain due to an incorrectly fitted chainguide, repaired and sorted his chainguide, then had to rebuild his Hope hub bearings as they were on their way out. The young racers mum was away taking another rider to Hospital who'd done his collar bone. When that rider came down and still had a chain attached to his bike i was REALLY pleased.
The best part of the weekend for me is sending my rider up for race run 2 (on a 2 race weekend rather than seeding) and thinking "yup, i've done my bit, it's down to him now", i then crack open a beer and go and wait to see the insanity unfold at the line.

 @TommyNunchuck: Oh do forgive me for talking about DH racing on a DH thread, you'd think this was a MTB site the way i carry on. FFS.

 @weeksy59: this is awesome mate - good on ya.
Would love to see more features on PB about grassroots racing and giving credit for people like you who are where all the future top pros will start.

 @gulogulointhearctic: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qDVgE-Zdfk

there was a cracking vid from Brayton this week after the racing, it captures a lot of the fun aspect of grassroots stuff.

 @weeksy59: awesome well done

 Turns out that bowling ball paint looks great on bikes!

 I've seen some of their custom paint jobs at Crankworx, and they truly are gorgeous. But that NSBikes one is a step above, imo. That one is just stunning.

 @the00 I hear you but there's not always time. Many of the racers are still riding this week while the mechanics/crew are heading to the races, so they are the ones turning up with a bike. It's then on the mechanics to make sure it's still 100% since they last saw it in Fort Willam and loaded it onto the riders vans. Some of the mechanics also have other jobs which means when they're not with their riders, they'll be doing other work and not just prepping the race bikes. They're not just WC race mechanics but do other 9-5 (usually MTB related of course) jobs as well.
But i completely get your point and yeah it'd be a much nicer thing to turn up, unload van and just chill out.

 Possibly, I personally haven't heard if they have changed tire sponsors or maybe they are working on prototype tyres for pirelli either way the bike looks sick. I would prefer blue myself since my brother claimed the color red lol

 @alittle1053: is Pirelli still their sponsor? No logos on the kit or anywhere. Hiding your logos if bontrager is your tire sponsor is understandable.

 Either because the calipers are being worked on/swapped and having the lever pulled in like that, stops the fluid draining out, or alternately to keep pressure on the system, which makes any bubbles shrink and more likely to float up the reservoirs at the top of the system. Most likely the second option on heathers bike, the first on the white YT a few pics below.

 @pbuser2299: I have heard that rational before regarding keeping the system pressurized helping rid it of bubbles, and I just don't get how that would be helpful. In my experience, the opposite is what you want, as with a vacuum bleed the bubbles expand hugely and therefore have greater buoyancy. Going up/down in pressure rapidly could maybe help, as can vibrating the brake system, as it helps jar bubbles loose to allow them to float upward, but this constant pressure thing just doesn't make sense to me. Anyone care to enlighten me?

 @thekaiser: I guess with the bubbles shrinking, they're more likely to pass through the hose? Drawing a vacuum would maybe be better, but you can't easily do that for an extended period of time, like you can when applying positive pressure.

 @pbuser2299: Yeah, that makes some sense, as a large bubble can certainly get lodged in a hose, and requires some outside force (either vacuume, vibration, etc...to move). I guess there might be a sweet spot of bubble size vs. buoyancy, and it would vary depending on the amount of air.

 Flag checks out!

 They even have universal health care in Poland

 lol. How is anyone down voting this comment? In just over a generation from communism and bread lines to part of the EU, fastest growing economy in Europe and relevance on the global economic stage.

 @wolftwenty1: when you can downvote something anonymously, it brings the true haters out of the woodworks

 @wolftwenty1: I don't know about your specific downvoters but I hear a lot of chatter amongst the young people complaining about "late state capitalism". They're often attributing issues with growing wealth inequality, and excess consumption taking a toll on the environment, to intrinsic flaws with capitalism, and they seem to be young enough to not know about the bread lines and gulags, so the communist grass looks greener to them than it was in reality.

 Whoever downvoted you either doesn't like the word coagulating or needs to get their eyes checked. That custom paint is so beautiful it's almost a shame to subject it to trail abuse. I'd probably crash the bike staring down at the frame while riding.

 It reminds me of the portrait of the new queen of England.

 Last year I dropped mine off one day and picked it up two days later. Not only quick, but super helpful with additional info. Jesus was great (no, not that Jesus. Jesus with an 'H')

 lol what are you talking about

 Those aren't technically pull shocks. The linkage is pulled, but it then pushes on the shock the normal way. I haven't seen a pull shock in common use since the Fox Dyad.

 yeah not sure why they went with a color that's close to kashima but not.

in design circles doing something like that signals arbitrary / accidental decisions, instead of action with intent. if fox made lowers that were kashima colored, the fox bros would've lost their minds...

 @mattmatthew: calling out the lack of intent seems really spot on. Or there is something that isn't well known that they referencing. I feel like I haven't seen those colors come together before. But I think that Fox has had quite a few ugly color designs over the years too..

 @mattmatthew: I'm assuming that it would be impossible to match the uppers exactly since there is batch to batch variation in the kashima coloration. You find a lot of people online complaining that their fork/shock/seatpost kashima don't match each other.