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#41-43: Will never understand why people think the dick-cam is a good angle.

@heinous: Seems like a bottleneck if Ed's the only guy who can service them though.

I mean, I think part of the problem is that UCI and co were not that interested in focusing on building a healthy, thriving series, and didn't know how to market or televise it. Whoever tries to drive forward with a proper international enduro series will have to rethink all of those things. The reality is that, for enduro, live broadcasting is tough/impossible, so not being good at that isn't really disqualifying IMO. I like the idea of Crankworx trying this out because having the series tied to a well-known, experienced entity will probably be more successful initially than a totally new entity forming from scratch.

@jessie-mmorgan: At a first pass, tabulating biacromial width, arm length, and bar width would give some interesting insight into arm angle, where there may be some interesting trends. That of course is more relevant to a more relaxed pedaling position. I don't know if elbow-to-elbow is the right metric in attack positions or not, but looking at the ratio of upper arm length to forearm length would also provide some insight and would start to dig into perhaps whether upper arm or forearm angle is the driving comfort or performance factor. We see in the biomechanics of squats and deadlifts that torso to leg length and femur to tibia ratios play a massive role in the optimal mechanics for individual lifters, so I'd expect this to be similarly related for handlebars. You could basically plot biacromial width, arm length, arm angle, humerus length, radius length, humerus angle, radius angle, humerus:radius ratio, biacromial to arm length ratios all against bar width and see if any correlate better. Would be more on the afternoon scale of work rather than the PhD scale haha.

Interesting to see him on the new DHFs rather than the High Roller with it that loose

I totally get why Big Bear would pay to have this advertisement. All of the PR they've gotten this year was that horribly designed feature that sent a bunch of riders to the hospital. Let's be real though, it's easy to call yourself the flagship gravity park in SoCal. That's as meaningful as claiming to be the best restaurant in Antarctica. They've built, what, 2 mid trails in 10 years? For a total of 6 or so. It's way too hot and they charge way too much to expect people to do 100 laps of the same 2 or 3 trails for an entire season. Pro tip: you overpaid for this poorly written ad. Spend the money on building new trails instead.

Such a fun event and the tracks, especially the new ones they built, were so good. Huge shoutout to the NAEC team for doing a fantastic job organizing everything - a very well-run event.

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