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 Ever see the Japanese magazine 'Garage Life'?
Wish there was a mountain bike version of it.

 Jill Sprintner! She's so awesome! Super friendly and humble. Crazy to me that the best female downhill rider in the country can't get the support to race World Cup.

 @RRMonster: she did race world cup before for Norco. i thought she chose to step away from it.

 She was the reason Women DH had the same winner every seasons.

 Seriously, if we had more people like her in the sport, it would be bigger than these crazy sports that [most] people religiously follow. I also found it extremely satisfying to watch how similar the two of them ride together. Exact lines, body position, speed and flow. Amazing!

 @jojotherider1977: Yeah I could be wrong but I think her reasoning for stepping away was lack of support and a team. Maybe she could join the Norco team if she really wanted to? I'm honestly not sure but i do know she raced Leogang in 2015 and did it all on her own.

 Surprised they didn't mention her brother Paul who had one of the main parts in Building the underground, still considered one of, if not the best trails bmx videos ever..

 Props to you for that decision. Not dumb at all to care for your daughter.

 Despite how great it is, nobody is getting rich here. Your decision would have been dumb if you were living in a van with your dog, but family's gotta come first. But come visit! The bham mtb community is friendly to outsiders!

 Ditto above, Bellingham is awesome but not tons of career opportunities there. Buy some property there while it's still affordable and vacation, then retire there when kids are grown.

 Good move. Everyone should stay away from Bellingham.

 Nothing to see here. Move along

 I just got a job offer up there....and took the shit out of it. Biggest regret ever...

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 @rockhammer: property is stupid expensive these days, unfortunately. Our median home price is about to be 400k and the inability to develope new water wells is only driving it all up.

 So good! Really liked the Richie version, but this is by far my favorite as well.

 For me as well - does a great job of capturing the love of life and bikes. Sick riding to boot! And Heartless Bastards!

 Yes, but she did make the remark early on in the video that she would always try to race against the best boys she could find.

 I believe it's called "pulling a Claudio" around here

 good eye, couldn't be anyone else

 I've only ridden it once but I'm fairly certain that was the dual slalom at Duthie Hill down in Issaquah.

 @tbmaddux: Yes it is... Deuces Wild if I am not mistaken. Such a fun trail to rip! It is probably the most dialed of all the trails there.

 @bkchef2000: Definitely Deuces Wild. Its definitely the most dialed. I think its the only one that doesn't get destroyed during the summer. very little braking is required so no reason to drag a wheel through a corner. Except for those two hair pin turns near the end. Those catch a lot of people off guard.

 You know it

 Left-handed too. There's some loose anecdotal link between lefties and creativity in design.

 Welcome!

 That it is. I've been fortunate to make friends with Jill and she's enjoyed having my place to practice.

 Well, she is the Downhill National Champion, so there is that ...

 She has before

 She has in the past.

 yup, and while she has mad bike skills, she's not a stellar dh racer - or at least not on the WC level. a few seasons on the WC several years ago and she had a few podiums but mostly 8ths and 10ths... everytime she is profiled, someone asks this question.

 This suggestion comes up pretty frequently, probably because she wins a lot of races that aren't on the World Cup tour, like Sea Otter and Crankworx. She's clearly focusing on Crankworx these days which seems to play to her all-around strengths coming originally from BMX. Anyway, about the World Cup racing idea...

Jill Kintner did race the UCI WC DH circuit a few years ago. She got a 3rd in 2014. Her website says she has 5 UCI WC DH podiums and that seems to match what I found here: www.hookit.com/members/jillkintner

She raced BMX for years back in the 1990s and was a peer of ACC in 4x when she moved to riding MTB.

 @tbmaddux: She has a Bronze medal from the 2008 Beijing Olympics as well for BMX, didnt just race for a few years.

 @Maxxis: Of course! I neglected to mention that. Will add it to the post the next time it comes up (seems to come up a couple times a month)...