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Okay, hear me out... (Not like anyone will actually read this) but this is probably a terrible idea for carbon rovals. Cushcore has broken several carbon rovals wheels for me and this looks even worse. The issue is they are super thin and weak at the surface where you put the rim tape. This isn't normally an issue since the bead wall takes all the hits, BUT cushcore and most likely these too, puts pressure on the weak part of the rim and they fail. NOBODY has listened to me, but I've broken one rim in my life u til I started running night g cushcore and broke 3 in 2 months the same way. And I was running dh tires at 31psi on an enduro.

just got my Maya 2.0 and i LOVE it! the maya 1 was great, but the new one is so much more comforable, better looking, and the visor is better too. STOKED!

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@stikmanglaspell: Yeah, not the first time I have heard 6D make some wild statements. Not to bash on them too hard, they really are trying to do good things.... but they love to make claims and then get SUPER defensive when you ask the hard questions. I have attempted interviewing them twice. Once was bad, really bad. The guy just kept repeating "we wouldn't have the best athletes if our helmets weren't the best" to answer EVERY question of mine. Granted, he was a field marketing guy who probably didn't know the answers. The other time was for a research project and I spoke with them at interbike. The answer to any questions that they couldnt spin to sound good was "we dont really think that matters" and that was the response to 7 of my 12 questions.... yikes. Im definitely a biased KALI fan, but my support from TLD for several years made me appreciate TLDs people, culture, and involvement with the sport. I just wish someone could blend Kali's passion for safety with TLD's great style. And just because I have to say it in EVERY helmet related conversation: MIPS is snakeoil B.S. Easy to market and profit from, but for all sense of practicality, its useless 99% of the time (figuratively speaking, not a reference to quantified data).

Okay, looks like it working now! Will have to plan a practice trip before heading out to the big wild Alaska. Where should we go?

Am I stupid?... I cant find where to enter to win... went to the page and read it all... My girlfriend and I are building our own canoe and do a canoe/bike-packing trip in Alaska. Winning would definitely help move things along!

@gerrycreighton: okay... I'll mansplain it to you... There's a 2 stage Enduro. Stage one is a 90 minute pedally stage that would be best on a 100mm travel bike. Stage 2 is a 1 minute absolute Savage DH course. No matter how good you are at DH, your DH time is rendered useless in winning overall. Even if you won stage one by a huge (10 second) gap, it would be worthless compared to the time spread of the 90 minute course. If your time on each stage was treated like a single race and then all the points were added up ( like a series) Then now you DH run holds weight equal to the XC stage. Please tell me you now understand.... Now doing this we could have races with EXTREME variety that will make all stages equally weighted. So now it's up to you to figure out where you can make the most points. Before, everyone would have take the XC bike and went slow down the DH course. But NOW maybe it makes sense to take the DH and win stage one and suffer on the other. Strategy!