RuskinL

Aye, the next year's survey is going to be brutal. Following this WBD debacle here on Pinkbike I checked to see if I had the world cups on my current Max subscription. I DID, but.. really had to work hard to find them: - WBD has Home | Series | Movies | 'HBO' | 'B-R Sports' | 'CNN MAX' in the global nav on the mobile app and smart tv app. -- So where are the world cups? --- Searching for 'mountain biking' I get 'Any One of Us (TV) ', 'The Mountain Kitchen (TV)', 'Mountain Monsters (TV), 'Dr. Jeff: Rocky Mountain Vet (TV)', 'Battle on the Mountain (TV)', 'Mountain Monsters: By the Fire (TV), AND THEN some random 'Mountain Bike' event for May 12th and 3am PST with no location, description, etc. etc. ---- Well shit, searching isn't a good way to find the races.. unless you search for 'UCI' then it works.. but for a first time viewer who doesn't know what the hell the UCI is.. --- Let's try looking at the 'B-R Sports' schedule --- Click 'Go to full schedule' ->filter for 'Mountain Bike' -> There we go.. now I see races up to the 12th I really wish the WBD Dev teams would implement some sort of onboarding that asked you what you're interested in. UCI Downhill and XC are setup to fail for awareness because they're competing with sports that have MANY more events in a regular season. NBA Basketball, NHL Hockey, MLB Baseball, Talk Shows, Contact Sports, and more crowd out DH and XC in this app incredibly well. Consolidation sucks.

@dcaf: Maybe there will be slightly different spec on non AXS builds? Looking at the site it does look like UDH/Transmission & new colors are the only new things. Wayback machine shows that the non UDH build was at $6,999 in December with a discount from MSRP $8,499. The UDH AXS build is now $7,899, so +$900 for Transmission and UDH frame, but $600 less than the 2023 MSRP perhaps.

Supposedly Trek is laying off 10% of their staff as well, https://www.teamblind.com/post/Layoffs-comming-at-Trek-Bicycles-eRVsgEay

Even Loic was giving the UCI shit about labeling this MTB on their IG channel. He may have deleted the comment, but it was to the effect of 'Come on now.. this isn't mountain biking. Put it on its own account.'

Folkert Lamsvelt's prior responsibilities: Pacific Cycle Inc & Pon Lifestyle : Schwinn, Mongoose, InStep (bike trailers), BBB Cycling

A good deal of Strava employees came from Facebook

3/134 responses did not check 'Two wheels'... please let this kick off the April 1st unicycle field test planning.