3 Pro Bikes from Downhill Southeast - Windrock 2020
Caroline Washam's Liv Racing DH Bike
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Her bike is a Giant Glory frame custom painted by Liv with the same paint that Liv's enduro athletes are racing this year and is outfitted with SRAM and RockShox componentry and Industry Nine wheels.
At 5'5" tall and 150 lbs, she's on a size Medium frame and is using a 350 lb. spring on the RockShox shock. Her Boxxer fork has 109 psi, no tokens, and one click of compression damping. She's also running Flat Tire Defender inserts and Joe's sealant, keeping things nicely sealed up through the rocks.
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Dakotah Norton's Devinci Wilson 29
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He's rolling into his third season with Devinci's factory team. This year, the team has swapped over to Fox for suspension and then Shimano drivetrains, marking a significant change from the other S brand.
Dakotah is a set and forget kind of rider and is still running a very similar set up to when he first joined the Devinci team back in 2018. At 5'11", he runs a large frame with a +7mm headset to get the fit just right. On his tyres he's running 23psi in the front and 28psi in the rear with Cushcore inserts both ends. He told us his spoke tension on those wheels is 'about to fold'.
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Rachel Pageau's Pivot Phoenix 29
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She's been back in Canada up until the last couple of weeks due to COVID restrictions but was able to get back to warmer weather and good riding recently.
She's 5' 2" tall and racing on Pivot's Phoenix 29 DH bike. At 112 lbs, she runs 62 psi in the Fox fork and then 155 psi in the Fox Float X2 in the rear. The bike is rounded out with some color-matched Nox carbon hoops and a RaceFace / Shimano Saint drivetrain
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Caroline Washam is carrying over a lot of her set up from last year into this year. After some time off the bike with a shoulder injury after the Snowshoe World Cup, she's had plenty of time to recover and is ready for the season to get underway.
At 5'5" tall and 150 lbs, she's on a size Medium frame and is using a 350 lb. spring on the RockShox shock. Her Boxxer fork has 109 psi, no tokens, and one click of compression damping. She's also running Flat Tire Defender inserts and Joe's sealant, keeping things nicely sealed up through the rocks.
Schwalbe tires and Industry 9 wheels keep things rolling.
RockShox suspension and a SRAM 7-speed DH drivetrain.
Thunder Huck bikes handle mechanic duties for Caroline and ensure that the bike is dialed on race day.
Dakotah Norton's Devinci Wilson 29
Knoxville local Dakotah Norton is coming into the season strong, taking the win at Windrock this weekend in dominating fashion after putting down some impressive results last season, including an 8th place at World Champs.
He's rolling into his third season with Devinci's factory team. This year, the team has swapped over to Fox for suspension and then Shimano drivetrains, marking a significant change from the other S brand.
Dakotah is a set and forget kind of rider and is still running a very similar set up to when he first joined the Devinci team back in 2018. At 5'11", he runs a large frame with a +7mm headset to get the fit just right. On his tyres he's running 23psi in the front and 28psi in the rear with Cushcore inserts both ends. He told us his spoke tension on those wheels is 'about to fold'.
Dakotah runs 260psi in his Fox Float X2...
...And 100 in his fork. Those bars are 780mm wide with a 35mm rise.
Rachel Pageau's Pivot Phoenix 29
Canadian Rachel Pageau has made a steady track upward toward the DH world, coming from XC racing, then to enduro. She's made her home in the Southeast, attending Brevard College and getting plenty of training time in at Windrock.
She's 5' 2" tall and racing on Pivot's Phoenix 29 DH bike. At 112 lbs, she runs 62 psi in the Fox fork and then 155 psi in the Fox Float X2 in the rear. The bike is rounded out with some color-matched Nox carbon hoops and a RaceFace / Shimano Saint drivetrain
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I imagine with this set up she burns through rear tires quickly but if you get them for free you end up taking the best possible performance option rather than the longest lasting.
Another possibility: She only had an ultra soft tire left and had to replace here rear tire. LOL
Also @seismicninja I run the same combo and its amazing
i just hoped there will be a new compound soon ;-)
Or maybe act like it's an obscure Michael Scott quote. From this point forward, everything is offensive because you probably had something to do with that whole redlining thing and since you got a head start in this race called life, you should not take advantage of it and sprint your ass off to keep ahead. You should wait to be ran over and trampled by everyone wanting to catch up. Then...you and all your dreams will be swallowed up as you're forced to hand over your bike that you worked so hard for...from your vantage point of privilige...so you can be "equal".
Then...we'll divide up all the rice and corn and grain and milk equally among all the citizens that the government deems fit whilst we all go to equal paying jobs and labor for the greater dominance of the overlords of all...one dude with all the oil and weapons and armies.
I know i will not change the way you think, but maybe read a little or even watch some comedians like Dave Chappelle or George Carlin so that you can begin to understand what all the fuzz is about.
Be part of the solution, not the problem.
I'm also certain that you are free from all racial behaviors that make you such an enlightened god among mere mortal men. Do tell, of what ethnic and racial diversity are you bred that you're able to see all the world so crystal clear from your blessed ivory tower of wisdom and click-bait knowledge? I'm certain in the roughly 14 years of your life you've been able to form sentences, you've gained all the greatest insight.
Also, do fill me in on your cultural and genealogical roots so that we can confirm you have no microscopic traces of ethnic cleansing, nepotism, genocide or heresy.
Eagerly awaiting....
Systemic and institutional racism is the problem. White men made it so. And white men can unmake it.
When the spanish conquered, they instituted the system (shool, art, knowledge) so that the indigenous population was racially antagonized and their culture abolished. But the fight right now is not in mexico, its in the US and my young internet clickbait 13 year old brain makes me want to express my ideals through this pinkbike thread in order to aid the change.
My genealogical roots come from Mexico and Spain.
I'll give you just 1 study, then you do the research. Then...go work with your neighbors to make a better world where you live and keep your fingers off my prostate.
"The data paints a much less rosy picture. Race, it turns out, has a greater impact on a
Mexican’s human development and capital accumulation than any other demographic
variable. Our results show that Mexico’s “skin-color gap” is two times the achievement gap
documented between northern and southern Mexicans, which is an inequality more often
cited in Mexico.
It is also five times greater thanthe urban-rural divide reported in the poll. We even found
that skin color has a significantly greater impact on wealth and education than does ethnicity
– that is, indigenous versus white or mixed-race Mexican."
www.vanderbilt.edu/lapop/news/121317.mexico-theconversation.pdf
I'm going to show you that one article, but you can find plenty.
Folks, there are bad people in this world. There are good. People hang out with people who look like them because it's quick and easy to look up, spot a similar face...and go. Models gang up, nerds do, hillbillies do, bloggers do (in group chats), tall people even hook up and hang. Frat boys, etc.
The entire human race just stands next to somebody they mirror.
When bad stuff happens to good people, it's the action of the person, not the society. Sure, hate based on visuals can be taught, but the seed has to be there. I've never programmed anyone to hate in my family. Some of us just have it in us.
Treat others with respect regardless of visual cues. But NEVER APOLOGIZE FOR BEING IN RACE OF SURVIVAL and keeping your head above water. If you're holding your kids on your shoulders to keep them from drowning, you don't reach out and pull someone else up and risk your children drowning in a sea of humanity.
You don't live here and you don't swing the broad stroke of a racist brush over the users of the Pinkbike community like we are some ill informed and poisoned society just because of the flag logo next to their name.
When I speak about other countries, I do it in TWO WAYS:
1. Factually based on the easy stuff like "China is a communist country stripping it's natural resources to push it forward as a world power." That's no guess work. They are doing that. I'm not throwing a citizen, community or town under the bus.
I make no mention of racism there, death squads, cultural differences, or their view of the world because I DON'T KNOW THEM!!!
2. 2.Satirically (sarcasm) - I would make offensive statements or silly assumptions as layers of either simple or complex jokes about basic Asian stereotypes that could offend any and/or every person in every country that may or may not be Asian. Punchlines, jokes...obvious stereotypes that everyone "assumes" but are only humor. Humor of ANY kind can offend, inspire or make a crowd laugh. It's up to the recipient. It is a form of Freedom of Speech. We have that right in the US.
Perhaps you should watch all the young black people facing off and insulting the living crap out of one another using stereotypes, race, region & faith and dying laughing on the wonderful "Dad Jokes" youtube channnel. Jokes aren't terribly universal. They offend each other.
So don't jump in the face of an American mountain biker making what is OBVIOUSLY a satirical joke that everyone can CHOOSE to laugh at or be offended by. Let him say it and move on. Look inward.
David Cross said it best: "I don't come down to where you work and slap the..."
If you want to throw "facts" around about China and stripping resources then we need to have a discussion about American business practices too, you can't play that card and not get called out.
Get f*cked
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I’d say they are good welds. 1 dab out of line maybe.
#Downhillc*ntry.