Matthewsturner

Still running the marz 66. Great fork. It has sticker saying not for freeride extreme or downhill use. On account of this I will skip rampage myself! One comment about the old stuff is that 1 1/8 just looks too skinny for a 170mm freeride fork (it's longer than my boxxer). I'm sure old 1.5 totems and 66 forks could have done the job with suitable frames at rampages gone by but maybe the riding progression was behind the equipment then. but not now clearly. Who will challenge Brandon?

ben cathro.... late praise on another subject but nice 2nd place at rd2 british nationals. Is 2022 the full on WC comeback year?

Looks like my old giant xtc. I like it!

Can any of these double header venues put on 2x completely different tracks? Please...

@mountainsofsussex: makes me angry :-(

Any good footage of his fort bill win? I would love to watch that. I think I've seen some of him absolutely steaming into the arena but that's it unfortunately

We all know the industry will iterate towards this in a couple of years. Specialized had it years ago but implemented it poorly. Geometry is allowing people to ride faster and people are just plain riding the nuts off bikes these days so enduro will just end up as light dh category. Enduro bikes will pedal moderately well. They'll have Between 170mm and 200mm travel to boot. Running old boxers on an old spesh enduro works fine for me after I took measures to lower the bb. The fork lenght was actually shorter than my marz 66 when in 170mm mode and I think generally the lenght is the thing that strains the head tube. It wont last for ever but it's ok for now and its a cheap old bike that flies...

How will rude do? Interesting... also great shot of gwin looking focussed and committed in that turn with bars 90 degrees to the ground. Will there be any video highlights? Bring on the DH season!

@chakaping: still running 66 and works fine with 27.5 x 2.3 magic Mary. 1 1/8 looks a bit skinny minnie but it hasn't failed on me

Are these not the ones where you can take the battery and motor out and you more or less have a normal bike. Ace! Think Lapierre do similar with more travel and also kinetics. Seems to tick a few boxes. I would never commit to spending all my money on an ebike