Will-narayan

In France l'Equipe TV was supposed to broadcast it, but they replaced it with the UTMB (Mont Blanc ultra trail), what a thrill...

He wasn't so keen on french spirit when they were wearing yellow jackets and protesting againt him...

And he cancelled the last 2 billions of the national bicycle plan (not that there's any money left anyway xD)

Indeed, the slope makes for a great public area, but is certainly not helping for safety.

Congrats to the 2 or 3 volunteers trying to keep thousands of people off track until the rider's gone by :p

"Beneath that, you have the mounting points for either a bracket that holds in a bottom bracket blank or a gearbox. The bottom bracket module allows for bottom bracket height adjustment, with ±15mm of vertical adjustment in 5mm increments."

Someone mentioned how this sort of helmet is ok in slalom (to dodges the gates, not protect from falls), I'm thinking a design similar to slalom helmet could be better, instead of the cage, you could just use a big tube (a 2cm diameter section for instance), big enough to protect in case of fall, thin enough to let more airflow than a fullface or removable chin bar, and round enough to "slide" over trail bumps. There could be bent going up a bit around the chin area to prevent it from digging in the ground in case of a fall.

@R-M-R: Mmh my 1st thought was that you could ride through a bush and a branch, not even a big one, could get stuck in it and pull your head back. We sure come with unlikely scenarios but many injuries probably come from freak incidents (not just in bike, I'm thinking about cars, aircraft, trains, etc), chains of small events that snowballed into desasters. This cage design is not an issue on ice were nothing can hook on it (except another player's stick) but on a trail I'm sceptical.

No french rider in the top 10, isn't that a 1st since quite a while ?

Also, I just realised you can't turn the bars much more than +-20° ? They'll hit the headtube step. SO yeah that's really just a concept t oconvey a few ideas but really not much more than that.