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They need to do an “Orbea Cribs” episode just so Martin Maes can drop that Dylan Stark line… “So, I don’t really know where I’m going with this, but here’s my 32” Black Snake Party Machine.” www.pinkbike.com/news/video-at-home-with-dylan-stark-for-yt-cribs.html

There are cankles and then there are jankles. Gee’s got both.

@enki: Yeah, I had a similar pedal-gash “tattoo” — I went to Greece in August 1998 for a month after a deep Odyssey Black Widow pedal calf gash…the gouges had just healed over and they turned dark brown / black from the sun. Many people thought it was a tattoo and asked what it was of. My doctor thought it was from a bear attack when he saw it while it was still raw. Anyhow, Daggas are the new Black Widows in terms of gashes and scarring =P Black Widow pedal gash: www.pinkbike.com/photo/18793197/ www.pinkbike.com/photo/18793198/ Odyssey Black Widow pedal: www.pinkbike.com/photo/18793223/ My 1998 DH (Intense) and Dual Slalom (Rotec) bikes w/those Black Widow pedals — shortly after which I switched to the amazing and huge original Atomic pedals, which became the Easton Flatboys: www.pinkbike.com/photo/18793221/ www.pinkbike.com/photo/18793218/ Atomic pedal: www.pinkbike.com/photo/18793371/

So would this make Bryon Noem’s Bimbofication airbags mandatory or prohibited?

Just needs some 8500rpm video clips from his Honda Civic Si on the way to Core Cross — because many of us know that the full-throttle drive to Whistler is part of the whole 1996-to-present mayhem that is Whistler and Crankworx =P www.pinkbike.com/photo/26270765/

I think Gee needs drop Red Bull and approach Ensure as a sponsor — “Ensure Surgery Immunonutrition Shakes” would be perfect for his hospital recoveries. Plus, “Ensure-able” would be a great tagline for his Instagram posts from the hospital bed. (I actually got hooked on Ensure in the hospital 25 years ago after a Gee-esque double-arm-break and I have one every morning now =)

They named it Shuvl because it looks like a dog dropping a deuce. It’s certainly no Unno.

Yeah, the only thing missing is featuring all of the amazing vintage DH bikes (and older riders) and second-generation younger riders on 90’s and 00’s DH bikes in Japan and at Niseko; where they cherish old bikes, old cars, and other old things through the Japanese cultural principles of Mottainai and Wabi-Sabi. I remember seeing a 40-something gal shredding on a pristine 1999 Santa Cruz Super 8 with 6” Boxxer 151. And oh gosh, all of the 1998-2002 Turner Afterburners and twin-downtube DHRs in Japan. And the 1997-2002 Intense M1s. If there’s one group of people who can have fun on amazing older bikes, it’s the same group of people who love driving and maintaining 1989-2001 Skyline GT-Rs and 90s to 00s Honda Type Rs! (I’ve owned 2 GT-Rs and even the sales manager at the local Audi dealer preferred my mostly-stock but lightly-modded 1989 GT-R to a 2009 Audi S5 in virtually every way except for the backup camera; newer isn’t always necessarily better in terms of driving & riding enjoyment =). With cars, bikes, and other things, many Japanese people appreciate old things, putting them to use, making them work well, and having an absolutely great time while at it. When Niseko plans vintage downhill and dual slalom races, I’ll be there to battle with all of the Japanese vintage shredders =) BTW, here’s my highly-modded second GT-R, a 1992 with a 2001 R34 NISMO Nür-spec crate engine, Reimax Group A camshaft, 580 or 680hp depending on fuel octane, carbon fiber driveshaft and carbon/carbon differentials, and a pages-long list of mods: www.pinkbike.com/photo/26544425/ www.pinkbike.com/photo/26544424/ My vintage Intense M1 and vintage (25 years in September!) JDM Honda Type R: www.pinkbike.com/photo/25834816/

@BenPea: Yes, in fact, many French like things both hard and soft at the same time…just like Michelin tires, baguettes, crème brûlée, Emmanuel Macron, escargot, croissants, Brie, and sometimes even the music of those other helmeted beings, Daft Punk.

I miss Michelin’s “Frenglish” marketing literature of past decades…they often had peculiar word choices and French phrasing in English, and usually at least one translation error that would evoke a “Oh no, that’s not what you think that means!” Like “Endeavor to pound deep crevices with our rigid casing and soft natural rubber, trafficked from French colonial rubber plantations for your pleasure in riding extreme positions on mountain trails.”