eugenux

because big jumps with nice mountaneous background sells good world wide.

it is a red bull event; they hold the strings; accountability is at their hands.

@nilswalk: yep, they need big flips with high exposure mountain/crests in the background to sell it world wide; freeride lines do not provide that.

@leon-forfar: you and Kaz are both correct; the idea I was pushing was/still is the place in which a 50mm stem vs a 40mm stem puts you over the bike; that 10mm more over the FC changes the dynamic reactions of the bike beneath you; honestly, you need to ride it differently on steeps, plow and in turns.I am all for adaptability...but adapt your riding style, not the equipment; if you take a shorter bike on purpose, than adapt to that shorter bike, not try to mimic your pref reach by physically changing the stem, on a bike that has been designed around a 40mm stem; it will physically place you in a different position over the bike! - basically, what I was trying to say is that Kaz made a DH e-plow machine into a cross-country with a motor(exaggeration at both ends, of course) -

also, there is zero trust on a review of someone to which the bike has almost 40% of his weight; and he also decided on a small size, then put a 50mm stem to compensate for the small feel/reach. It is laughable.

@leon-forfar: hi man; this bike is designed to work with a 40mm stem; Kaz's pref stem size is of 40mm; he simply made a wrong choice regarding size and fir, the prof being its immediate change to a 50mm stem in order for him to be comfy on the bike. as for what stem you have on your nomad, has zero relevance; important is what is the length of stem, the bike's designers decided it needs to have; you can put a 80mm stem if that's your think!, it will not mean the bike is at best with one; and also, there is a significant diff in how a bike rides, feels and behave with a 40mm stem vs a 50mm stem and vice-versa; don't pretend it isn't. All of these just reconfirm you just can't teach new tricks to an old dog.

choosing to put a 50mm stem on a bike that's meant to go with a 40mm stem?(conservative much, eyes closed to new ideas much?); I guess you really can't learn an old dog new tricks!(such a shame)

@fentoncrackshell: this 100%!, I was surprised, in a negative way, when Kaz elected to go a size smaller but them compromise on the bike's geo by putting a 50mm stem; ffs, this is a bike meant to go down a DH or enduro track, not to casually trail ride or going full cross country. Times have changed and geometries have changed; that's why I am stoked that Kaz didn't get that and choose to compromise in the wrong way around, on a bike that's meant to have a 40mm stem. (and that was just because he thinks he knows better than the engineers and designers of this bike) free advice: if it no longer your generation, let others do it!, in the second you compromised in the wrong way, because you chose a smaller bike that proved indeed to be to small, because of your conservative and fixed ideas, that second should come with the realisation that you should give up on testing and let other ppl, more grounded in current realities, more open to new things, do this job!, you are not fit for it anymore, from a mental POV!

for me it was always about mike and mike but, especially about mike; and the podcasts were always about mike and his crazy addictive storytelling....; when he dissapeared at the beginning of the year, so were my frequent visits on pb; now that he is officially gone.. so will I as to me, without any disrespect, the new guys give me nothing I can relate with and their experiences and expectations of what mtb is, missed me out completely; basically, I cannot identify with and so, I cannot relate with and so, it feels like I am doing it for nothing(due to habbit)... and because I believe I'm no dv.mb kid, I will simply stop doing it. Thank you Mike Levy, it was a blast and I thoroughly enjoyed it!, ...and alsox, Fernando is still one of the goats, no matter what Peter Windsor says about his driving style!

@Timo82: no, they did not offered anything.. absolutely nothing.