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@xice: Just wait until we see Giro step up their game in the DH scene... shoulder wide aero helmets that look like Darth Vader on 'shrooms coming in hot in the second half of the season... ^^

If that disc break cover is "aero", then Ben Cathro is actually a dwarf and only made appear tall in post...

"the rocks drew up..." is shouting at Taj Mihelich to drawa picture of a rock drawing a picture of Bruni riding down Fort Bill...

What a banger caption for a black and white photo: "Brook Macdonald in some new Forbidden colors this season"...

@korev: Or if you have to commute to Zürich where the S-Bahn during rush hour does not transport bikes aswell...

Pinkbike, could you please confirm or deny this? Just surprised to find out about this on this way... You guys have the contacts to confirm it according to journalistic standards. Thank you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COqr3TXtW40

If they legally exchanged CEO, i suspect that Scott will move within the next 5 years to South Korea or another country...

When it comes to wages, i think it's hard to generalise. If I would take a good living wage here in Switzerland as base line, it would be much higher than even in Germany, France or Italy. So it totally depends what a good wage is on you're circumstances. I guess that the baseline for a good wage for e.g. Camille Balanche and Monika Hrastnik are quite different due to the average cost of living in Switzerland and Slovenia. If you compare cost of living with numbeo (online tool) for Maribor (Slovenia) and Biel (Switzerland) the difference for the same standard of living is a staggering 3'600 Euros / month (2'900 Euro vs. 6'500 Euro). Would it be fair to put wages of riders on the same team based on the cost of living in their home country? No! I guess the appropriate thing would be to take a look at the average costs of living in the home country of all the staff and set the baseline accordingly. Whe it comes ot individual sponsors it's a bit different. In general, I think that riders should earn a marketing wage appropriate to the amount of work they expect from the brand sponsored riders, e.g. if they estimate that they will spend overall 20% of a work week (1 Day per week) doing things for e.g. their bike sponsor, they should earn a 20% marketing wage from their bike sponsor (which could be for example 12 x 7'000 CHF x 0.2 = 16'800 CHF / year by the bike sponsor, added together with parts and clothing sponsors they'll get a good wage). Regarding racing and coverage: all i watched is the womens races that got shown on Swiss TV (Lenzerheide and Worlds) and skipped through the mens race because all in all it's just too long to watch all the other stuff that might interest me and the full races.

@chrismac70: This can also be achieved without a semi-finals. It's called "qualifying"...

I can already see the title screen. Black written "Pink" in a rounded off pink rectangle and white written "Bike" on a black background... And of course "fieldtest" underneath somewhere.