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Here in N Georgia/ATL metro the biggest growth is with the kids. NICA came into the state almost a dozen years ago, but the growth outpaced the support NICA could provide and Georgia formed it's own league. Just on the team my office sponsors and I've coached with we've had to partition the team three times in the last five years as we just had too many kids that wanted to join. We've sent a bunch of kids onto race at the elite levels and for college teams. Still the bottom line for us is for it to be fun. Off season I see team members out riding all the time. Sure, not all of them stick with it and not all are going to be XC racers, but many more have gotten hooked than I could have ever imagined.

You Might Be Doing It Wrong? No, you (the collective you) are definitely doing it wrong.

Wire metal chin brace -15 points Actual* hockey goalie mask +20 points *No Spirit Halloween Friday the 13th BS.

"New to Yeti is the inclusion of in-frame storage, which they're referring to as the Cavity." It's nice to see Yeti knows their audience.🤣🤘 #dentistbike

I like big bars and I cannot lie!

Uncle Tupelo! Damn, they look so young! I dug them back then, but never got to see them. Never saw Wilco either but I did see Son Volt who a pal of mine managed for a minute in the early 00s.

Esthetics, motor selection, and pricing aside this unfortunately seems like what I'll call another "E-too" design. E-too: basically any full power e-bike that has a Horst-link, generally mixed wheels and weighs 50 lbs or more. Stick an Avinox motor in it if you want it to actually sell. Rhese are already dated being based on a design format that is older than five years. These are designs that are readymade for any manufacturer via whatever motor company the makers wish to graft their designs onto. The easiest one to get into is a four bar Horst-link. If you've never ridden e-bike and hop aboard one you'll have fun. However, if you've spent anytime on e-bikes and/or ride pedal bikes on the regular the tug boat handling of these things on tech-ladden trails is going to be lacking. Lastly, kudos to Crestline, Forbidden, and Propain using unique suspension designs for their e-bikes.

Is Juanfer Velez stunt riding under another name as he is not on the entry list?

Great! Now I have another issue to work through with my therapist. The swingarm and linkage are triggering. 😭

@pisgahgnar: Horseshoes and hand grenades. Check the boxes...Horst-link, 150-170 travel, a motor (preferably an Avinox if you want anyone to look at it...a bit of a whoopsie here), around 50 lbs. Standard e-bike fair. It's all rather boring. I'll give Propain props for their customization being more than just a paint job, their pricing being excellent and NOT using another gawddamn horst-link layout. I am not an e-bike h8tr, I've ridden plenty of them and owned one, but it's become so uninteresting. On the flipside, my regular bike is a riot to ride and way more fun than any e-bike I've sampled so why bother? I'll answer my own question here...because I have friends who have all but given up on riding regular non-motorized bikes. I may end up buying one just to spend time with them.