Updated: Highlights & Results from EWS-E Crans Montana 2022

 Where is Keegan Wright ? Yeti E team member with Mick Hannah ?

 @glenno: probably drunk in a parking lot.

 @bonfire: It's called "networking."

 @bonfire: hahaha so true ! hes so hype on social media but no show at a race ...

 Makes up for losing Warner.

 Wait until 2023 DH-E series! Next, next level (of absurdity). Truly never stop never stopping,

 Yep. Women are always smarter than men. Go ahead and DV me and call me cap'n saveahoe but those are facts. Ask your mom.

 It’s not

 And none in ews-e 100-50-master.

69 total participants including all categories (65 men - 4 women)...

 @ArchiRide: Thats because you need multiple batteries to get round the course

 Is this sport dying?

 @headshot: quiet the opposite. It’s just getting started. There will be more and more competitors as it goes on. Once people realize how much fun it is, it will continue to grow.

 @Twenty6ers4life: I have no doubt that e-biking is fun, but I'm not sure that competitive e-biking is necessarily as fun a regularly Enduro. You've still go to work your ass off, but you've also got to worry about batteries, etc in the process. Seems like most competitive people might prefer the simplicity of non-motorized bicycle racing.

 @jayacheess: I think that's a very fair take

 @Twenty6ers4life: do you think it’s fair to have a competition in which a shorter lighter rider can run more boost for a given battery life and ‘win’ as a result even against a fitter but larger rider?

 @frorider2: yep like Josh Carlson, the bloke weighs about 78kgs / 171p fit as. But going up against say NicoV who’s around 65-68 kgs / 22 - 28 pounds lighter has to be a disadvantage. Nico’s probably faster than Josh downhill but the times lost going up.

 This is an acute observation, but depends on perspective.
In all pro categories (U21, normal, Masters) for EWS there are 62 women and 264 men.
In EWS-E there are 4 women, 31 men.
So 11% of EWS-E racers are women, 19% of EWS racers are women.
There just aren't that many women who mountain bike to begin with. The numbers are rising. If you are concerned with the number of women involved or the rate at which they are getting involved, in what ways are you supporting getting women into the sport?

 @CM999: How much are e-bike batteries? If you need a decent e-bike, plus like three batteries to race then this is gonna be comparable to Yacht Racing for cost of particpation.

 @Twenty6ers4life: Nobody wants it. Racers are just trying to make a buck and I don't blame them one bit for doing it but there is no honor in it.

 @headshot: Hard to say as yet, but regular EWS is up on numbers from 2021, while EWS-E seems to be down. Can't be a good sign

 Once upon a time people startrd a stupid sport, riding old bikes with almost no brakes down dirtroads-that was stupid.... wait a minute.

 @optimumnotmaximum: once upon a time athletes used to be disqualifed for putting motors inside their frames. now they have “races” with them. is that not absurd?

 @wasabijones: just put them on the outside then, makes sense. I dont get ebike racing either but sports are often stupid in the eyes of others ( i love DH and flying down mountains in a squirrelsuit or big wave surfing may not be the most sensible way to live either).

Splitting the pricemoney on Worldchamps between ebike racing and DH ist what really triggers me.

 As long as a Rivian is the shuttle vehicle.

 I would like to know also... We haven't seen him in the results for some times now. He didn't even compete in the previous race, wich close to his home.

 Trying to sound like a Canadien or a funny dude?

 @HCPeltsi: E, eh.