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Aaron Gwin
71 Comments
  • 85 13
 seriously pinkbike? POD? This? I am confused :/
  • 34 21
 Aint the most original but you gotta admit, he's drifting on soft, off-camber dirt on a 29er... pretty bad ass.
  • 186 22
 29ers are super cool just kidding they are super gay
  • 28 10
 Awww come on! THIS is the POD that's posted on my birthday?!
  • 12 5
 Pinkbike, where are many photos you've turner down at POD, this should be one of them. Great photo, just not POD photo
  • 12 1
 Happy Birthday, DerpDownTheHill! Here's a similar, but more charging, shot for you. I hope this is more to your liking.
www.pinkbike.com/photo/7746366
  • 14 4
 Could specialized be behind this POD to advertise 29ers?
  • 4 24
flag nomorepb (Apr 30, 2013 at 11:29) (Below Threshold)
  • 12 1
 Whats that^
  • 17 23
flag ltescobar (Apr 30, 2013 at 12:37) (Below Threshold)
 @winston77 Yeah because using "gay" as a pejorative doesn't make you sounds like a f*cking moron. Instead of being fascinated and stoked by the fact that we have option and technology suited for whatever type of riding you feel like doing, we should just bitch at the fact that, even though most of you have never ridden a 29er, it's not the norm. For the love of the sport stop bitching about wheel size already!
  • 2 1
 Maybe in the future this photo becomes unique or vintage or hard to find. First victory in DH with a 29er . . Imagine now
  • 11 3
 Itescobar- Calm down, buddy... it's just the internet.
  • 23 0
 Aaron runs whatever he wants. He had an SX, an Enduro 26, an Enduro 29 and a Demo to pick from that day. We'd have given him a tricycle if he wanted that as well.
  • 11 3
 Sorry Jason, but the kids here have decided that anything other than a 26" full blown DH bike is a joke. I guess you guys had better ignore your sales numbers, market research, as well as feedback from your customers and only sell what they want. Oh and don't you dare let your pros be seen on anything else, that is if you want your company to survive.
  • 5 5
 This should be pod..kids got just as much style
www.pinkbike.com/photo/9511581/#top
  • 4 2
 And some day it might be POD. Why people get upset so much over POD is just beyond me. I've seen PODs I think were crap, but I don't let it get me mad or angry. Seems kind of silly to get so upset over something so silly right?
  • 4 1
 Say what you want about it but it looks to me like he's coming in preeeeetty hot into that section. Anybody who's raced sea otter should be able to see that but maybe its just me. 29ers only seem dumb if you can't go as fast as possible, luckily for Aaron Gwin he gives zero fucks so it obviously isnt an issue what wheel size he's on.
  • 1 0
 Itescobar - its from a video retard www.youtube.com/watch?v=QyTyjQbvylg
  • 1 0
 Excellent post, all hail progression
  • 1 0
 @tetonlarry how can you say that if you've never raced sea otter though? It's nothing but small bumps and carrying speed, two of the things 29ers excel at.
  • 3 1
 @tetonlarry, having raced at Sea Otter and watched as the other pros descended this year, it was plain to see that everyone was rocking something different -- there were massively built DH bikes, trail bikes, 29ers and 650b, all with some mashup of components that they were hoping would give them an advantage. It was anyone's race to win, and Gwin simply won. That's it. Whether it was because of his wheels, his attitude, his practice laps, the special underwear he was wearing or that he simply laid down the most perfect run, we'll never know. However, I do know that in this photo, he was f*cking pinned. He rode strong all weekend and is, by no means, being 'made soft by his use of a 29er'. Have you ever ridden a Specialized 29er? The one Mitch Ropelato won Fontana on is amazingly fun and responsive -- yes, I just said 'responsive' in reference to a 29er. It's all bikes. We all love bikes. We all love riding our bikes. Get over it.

My point is that until you race Sea Otter, until you meet Aaron Gwin, until you watch the races, and until you get off of Pinkbike and actually ride your bike, you have no room to talk. Smile
  • 4 1
 "Although his time would have been a little quicker with normal sized wheels."

Got any evidence to back that up?
  • 1 0
 Thanks Shrockie! Big Grin
  • 3 1
 @tetonlarry, way to address a singular part of a comment -- you'd make for one hell of a shitty politician. Smile
  • 1 2
 Big brother keeps editing my comments. This is a Canadian site right? Freedom of speech in Canada is protected as a "fundamental freedom" by Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Censorship is both an incentive and reason to the performance of certain expressions, attitudes, and behavior, and how a society chooses to organize its system of social control. It contends that we have more to fear from the economic groups who have the power to control the media through ownership and advertising than the state itself. Mass media of communication is no longer a reflection of ideas in the community but are part of a class structure.
  • 1 0
 tetonlarry- It's a privately run website where the owners are responsible for the content posted on it, including content from users. I have no clue what you're writing because I don't care enough to read it but... shut it with the "freedom of speech" bull malarkey. It's silly.
  • 1 2
 Oh don't you worry Scott. My comment will be gone in the morning anyway.
  • 1 0
 Your freedom of speech ends when you agree to the Terms of Service to use the website, that's the facts of life. I don't know if they are censoring you, because I too haven't bothered to read up on what you've been saying, but I find it muy difícil to believe they would be.
  • 1 0
 Fair enough. I get it. I'm over it anyway. I learned a lot about how fair, honest, and open this site really is through this experience. I cannot kill the idea of 29ers for legitimate DH by myself. Time will handle if for me.
  • 1 0
 The problem is that you think you alone hold the definition of what "legitimate" DH is when I could probably guarantee you that definition varies from Pro to Pro. The fact you're so worried about a wheel size is a little silly mate. It's a wheel, it's a bike, and we all ride them.
  • 25 12
 Great shot Paris..right light, right moment, right guy. ...We all could use a moment like that.
  • 9 2
 Yes, because I know when I'm bombing down a hill I'm wondering "how's my lighting". Sorry, I just couldn't resist, hahaa.
  • 4 2
 I thought a POD wasn't just the image, but the subject? This isn't an appealing photo to most people, nor what the rider is doing
  • 30 14
 In photo journalism, the historical context is hugely important - It's not some Joe Blow holding his daughter at the beach. - its Aaron winning a pro DH race on a Specialized 29er trailbike - and it is well lit, the colors are great and the composition is nice. Five years from now, when the definitive story is written about the conclusion of the DH wheel-size debate, this may be the one photo that illustrates it. There is room in the blue sky to the left to insert a killer headline ".002 seconds was all Gwin needed to crush the 26-inch wheel."

... or, it could be a nice photo. Just sayin'
  • 18 6
 Sounds like the debate is already settled in your mind Richard. Honestly, it's settled in my mind too but with the opposite conclusion. 5 years from now we will all be laughing about that time everyone thought 29ers would be used in real downhill races.
  • 11 3
 Ummmmm, 0.002 seconds isn't exactly 'crushing' anything.
  • 3 1
 Regardless of what the 'wheel debate' conclusion is, Richard is still making a good point that you clearly missed tetonlarry. And with a race that was as tight as this years Sea Otter DH, .002 seconds was enough to crush an extremely tight field. Who cares what wheels people will be on in a few years, the point is that this shot represents the first major downhill race won on a bike with 29" wheels, regardless of how important you think that fact is.
  • 10 1
 I didn't miss that point. The fact that Gwin only won by .002 seconds, and is considered the fastest in the world suggests he may have won by a larger margin if he was on a 26" bike. Sea Otter is an enduro race without an uphill section. It is not a Dh race. Besides, you don't "crush an extremely tight field by .002 seconds". If he won by 2 or 3 seconds I would agree that he had crushed the competition.
  • 1 1
 Touche Richard. Well said
  • 5 1
 @stillmrg stop liking your dinky photos. Not pod worthy. The composition isn't great. Over edited and the rider isn't very interesting. The idea of having the streets behind it all is good though!
  • 2 6
flag nomorepb (Apr 30, 2013 at 18:54) (Below Threshold)
 @ mike-gillespie i know you love my photos.
  • 1 1
 This is appealing to me Loam. Is that okay?
  • 16 3
 it's a nice shot but there are hundreds of shots like this taken every weekend at every local race.
  • 10 4
 Of Gwin? Winning on a 29er? In off-camber, moon-dust soft dirt? During a pro race? Where the winning margin was 0.002 second? Damn, you must go to some pretty insane local races every weekend.
  • 3 3
 put into context i appreciate it's a special moment... that doesn't by any means make it a great shot worthy of a pod
  • 12 3
 29ers win D.H. race good job A.G.
  • 16 4
 it's hardly DH... everyone knows short travel bikes are the fastest at sea otter.
  • 10 0
 yeah not the best trail to argue for DH.
  • 3 0
 Ohhhh if only you had told Greg that...
  • 6 0
 cool shot but time for a sensor clean Paris.
  • 6 1
 Haha yeah.. There was no getting around the dust this week. Shit was so fucked up between Margus and I with dirty lenses and gear.
  • 8 0
 When you shoot mountain biking long enough, you get used to a dirty sensor and camera haha
  • 4 0
 This pic is very pleasing to my eyes and brain after reading about $10,000 for a Bronson...
  • 1 0
 Must have been some intense dust to be showing up at f5!!
  • 1 0
 was just thinking the same thing r-saunders
  • 3 1
 I love that people are on here hating on Gwin, hating on this POD, worrying about wheel size and debating each other over whether or not __________ (insert random part, random rider, random bike fact here) actually won this DH race or that one. Oh wait, no I don't.

How about we start riding more, complaining less, digging more and fighting for trail access, positive publicity, more publicity, better cooperation and changing our sport and the world instead? Smile
  • 2 0
 That would be awesome for people to have intelligent discourse. But come on, you know where you're at. You know the reputation that follows the demographic here. Everything is "gay" this, "gay" that.
  • 3 1
 Regardless the ''historical view'' people somehow see this, On photographic merit this photo lacks it and the worst of it is the guy has some nice photos from sea otter as well but they pic this?
  • 5 4
 whats with people hating, he's pinned! and that turn is hard as f@ck to rip down. he ripping it hard than all you complaining about the pod, get on ur bike n' go ride...
  • 2 2
 If it ain't hate about AG being on a 29er, it's not a DH trail... Well then, put someone something out there that would have done better Wink
  • 1 3
 Like Aaron Gwin on a normal bike?
  • 1 0
 What is considered normal? Only thing normal to a racer is winning, bottom line
  • 1 0
 Normal: 26" wheels that are lighter and stronger than 29" wheels.
  • 3 1
 Nice shot on a nice day
  • 2 2
 Dust in Seattle??
Crazy world

Cheers
  • 4 0
 No that's the sea otter I thank
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