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This shitty AI press release isn't making me care any more about this weird-ass event that i wasn't allowed to watch months ago when it happened. Hopefully it doesn't continue.

FYI a bunch of browsers have a setting to disable autoplay on all webpages by default. Some that don't, they have extensions you can install to make it happen. It's nice to solve the problem once and for all...

You can't have a course that's designed to be committing and barely rideable in order to push riders, while also being rideable in less than ideal conditions.

That's not how that works. The i-Track AS calculation within Linkage is accurate, and accounts for both the natural AS effect as well as chain forces.

Announcement video filmed in world famous freeride destination Bentonville.

The correct term is Locomotives.

"I feel like this should look better than it does"... This is what you get when you let an extremely talented engineer have full control on a project. The small individual parts are beautifully modelled and perfectly manufactured, but the broader strokes in the design have been ignored (or maybe not ignored, but not done as well). It's really easy to just dive in to a project as an engineer, starting from maybe a locked-in geometry and kinematic design, and the shape of the bike just... evolves into what it evolves into. You get used to looking at it onscreen and start to think that it looks great, but you mistake familiarity with good looks. You tweak angles and radiuses and finishes etc to get everything looking cohesive, but what you should have done is sketched a beautiful picture of a bike at the same time you were locking down your geo and kinematics, as well as coming up with a bunch of rules to constrain the overall design language before you ever opened your CAD software. Great products need to be stuck in the middle of an argument between an artist/industrial designer and an engineer. Artists can't make a good product, and neither can engineers. Some people are both of those things, and that's really unusual.

Yup. I've always been limited by stability and rim protection over anything else, and 29" doesn't allow any real reduction in pressure for me.

The version of these POC gloves that I have are the large size. They fit slightly smaller and a bit tighter in the fingers than your average large.

@jcav5: I crash enough. They're burlier than they look, the palm material is thin and ventilated but is super strong and hard wearing, and the stitching just never really blows out.