Teams have had their hands full since the timing stopped ticking in Fort William on Sunday... Bikes and tents were hurriedly packed away so they could crack on with the 2000km drive to Leogang, Austria, before they could then repeat the process of building pits and stripping down bikes before the on-track action starts tomorrow. Rebuilds and general maintenance was the name of the game today, but we did manage to spot a few more interesting details that slipped our eyes in Fort William:
...She seems to be gelling well with her new bike and team.
Troy Brosnan wheel details.
Different shock mount positioning in the Commencal pit.
Wheel weights and an e-bike tire... A combination that won in Fort William last week.
Marshy starting afresh.
Bedding in brake pads in the Santa Cruz pits.
Atherton's bikes details
Mix-matching pads in the Norco pits.
Brake bleed time for the Hope crew.
Mick Hannah's Polygon XquarOne DH with a Fast Suspension coil shock.
Complete with Renthal bars and flat pedals.
Gwin is a chump, couldn’t hack it in moto, comes to our tiny sport, changes teams constantly, can’t keep his rubber side down, blames his mechanic. Perhaps needs to spend spend some more time with father repenting.
How much do all new bearings and bushing cost? Less than a hundred quid. One of them failing in a race run would make that 30 grand investment wasted. It is definitely worth making sure everything is perfect.
My CK hubs I run without the metal c-clips on the seals because it makes them draggy.
My pivot bearing checked a few months ago with seals on 2 seized and after removing seals no grease.
So now just grease them no seals they don't do anything anyway.
Like my front wheel ???
Around the 5 min mark.
I've been using that technique as well and new pads seem to bed in faster that way.
Nice!
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Also Hope kit lookin blingy as hell.
#lookfastgofast
That said, that increased speed could totally just be a placebo effect.
That said, the placebo had a positive effect on their race times, so it worked and who cares if it works not by physically influencing your the bike in a positive way, but by psychologically giving you an edge.
So UNNO / Cesar makes prototype/race rears for Intense?