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After reading this, the one take away I got was that Richard obviously doesn't ride DH bikes a lot, if at all. If you are riding a true DH track, then the point is that it requires a DH bike. If your local riding spot, that happens to have a downhill incline, is faster on a trail bike, then it's not a true downhill track. 'Take away the berms and downhill bikes can barely make it around a corner at speed.' - If you had a lot of experience with a DH bike, and experience riding proper DH tracks, then you'd know that on a great deal of 'flat' corners, a DH bike will most definitely be quicker (french alpine DH tracks are the perfect example). 'The doom filter erodes the experience.' - Totally disagree with this. Seeing an athlete push themselves to the absolute limit is an incredible thing to watch. I don't want to see a guy casually stroll to the finish line and win, I want someone who is visibly giving everything they have win a race, they are putting the extra effort in to win and in my opinion, deserve to be rewarded with a good result if they manage to hold it together. The future of DH is hindered by one thing only - the race tracks. DH bikes have undoubtedly reached a plateau, not to say they won't continue to progress, it just means focus may be put on to smaller advances rather than things as significant as disc brakes or the introduction of suspension. There's still room to grow. If Sam Hill and Steve Peat are saying dh tracks have become boring, I fail to understand why the UCI isn't listening. Yes, it has a huge amount to do with money, tv coverage, etc. But I'd prefer to watch 3 sections of Schladming in the piss wet over every single second Leogang any day. Dh bikes are the pinnacle of the sport, and they should be tested by the worlds best on the worlds hardest tracks. If I wanted to watch guys sprint along a fire road, I'd watch Cyclocross, and I will never start watching cyclocross...

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