The Syndicate 2017 - Episode 4 - Greg Minnaar

 You usually expect the old pre production excuse

 Everyone knew about it already. No point in tryna cover it up.

 It didn't fail from riding stress. No bike is designed to take that sharp of an impact damage.

 glad they too it down, shouldn't have been there in the first place imo

 @john260164: agree. Hip breaker.

 If not the win, then at least the pole

 @john260164: there are trees all over the place, what difference will a wooden post make? But I get your point, I thought if the post has to be there then it should be designed to fail on impact.

 @Braindrain: yeah that would be a good idea, or at least padded like some of the trees are. Natural hazards are one thing, but unnecessary ones another matter. Anyway, the good thing is Greg wasn't hurt

 What does karma have to do with this? It's not like Gwin did anything wrong.

 @COnovicerider: Karma is now a popular over-used word. Hence why people who have no f*cking clue what it means trying to use it to look cooler

 @COnovicerider: I don't think he means bad Karma for Gwin, but that Minaar is due good fortunes from the series of presumably undeserved bad fortunes that have recently befallen him. A return to zero, so to say, where Minaar is on the negative side of zero and is due good fortune to balance it all out.

I don't believe in Karma, so I simply hope that neither of them have a mechanical and that everyone makes it down safe. May the best biker that day win.

 @COnovicerider: the real question here is: if they both thanked god for all their wins, and one of them wins world champs, then what? it boggles the mind.

 @JaredHarzan: Thank you Jared for being astute. Minaar is a class act, and it was a shame he went out like that. It was a shame that Gwin had mechanicals too, and so when he came back from behind to win, that was thrilling and HE deserved it. Now I'd like to see Minaar reap the fruits of his labor, and if a little divine intervention or cosmic force gives him an assist, then he deserves it.

@COnovicerider: Karma's been used since probably the 60's, it's not just popular now...

 @COnovicerider: Karma usually applies to the next life in religious traditions, it's true that the word has been very distorted in western conversation.
Gravity and kinetic energy are probably far more relevant to DH racing.

 @Steventux: are you guys all grown men yeah?

 @mollow: no joke. It's entirely played-out and people use it like one should never make a mistake. So dumb.

 TRUE LEGEND

 that sounds about right .>>>

 Accept the weight and you eliminate the problem. You also lose the race though. Airless tyres require a whole wheel setup, are prohibitively expensive and can only be set for one pressure/weight or stiffness equivalent. Better to look to a wheel manufacturer than a tyre one. Mavic likes to make proprietary expensive quickly outdated unsupported shit and makes tyres.

 Pretty sure an aluminium rim would have also failed there, but yes it would be cheaper to replace

 Yep and I doubt an alu frame would have survived hitting that post as well but both are way cheaper to replace.

 @thenotoriousmic: it would have bent but probably wouldn´t have snapped