Tech Bits You Might Have Missed From the Maribor DH World Cup

 I love lamp.

 @ReformedRoadie: laaaaammmmmööööööpppp!

 I like turtles

 But can we all agree that spelling Commençal correctly isn’t that difficult?

 I like boobies

 @ReformedRoadie: i love carpet. I love desk

 @freerideglory: Are you just looking at things in the office and saying that you love them?

 @megatryn: if that's the case, I want to work wherever @robmarini-jet does...

 @gnarlysipes: I dont know how to make accents on my letters honestly, I cant even use apostrophies, so if we are going to agree you may need to share the keyboard shortcut.

 @dkendy1: I think if you're on Mac you just hold the c key and it should come up like this ç and you just use the allocated numbers to select which one you want. There are other letters but I don't know which ones have them and which don't off the top of my head.

 And slacker....I also wonder is he's messed with BB height or not.

 It's because he's too conservative. He should just ask for Santa Cruz to make him a 535mm reach V-10.

 Give him the Grim D and get out of the way.

 @NMK187: The Grim v10

 @SintraFreeride: You mean: the Grimaar

 SC reach numbers are really short on their DH bike. Not as short as Spec but still not as long as many bikes out there today.

 @SintraFreeride: 100% I’m a bit taller then him and comfy on 535! For more aggressive stuff 555 is still okay but gets tiring on long rides when your tired as your position has to be more aggressive.

 @NMK187: the ladies always get out of my way when I try to give them the Grim D unfortunately.

 @whiteboarder: That does sound better!

 @Cgocal: I'm 1.8m and am on 515mm and have tried 535mm. Longer is better for speed but less of an overall bike feel. He could certainly try at least 535mm if not more!

 @SintraFreeride: Grimmaar would be correct, actually : )

 it also looks like that rocker main pivot has come a bit loose, judging by the witness marks...

 @conoat: Looks like it's tighter than when it was marked actually. Righty tighty...

 @microwaveric: true, but it's due to it loosening and someone doing it up a bit tighter than original. the rotation of the rocker wouldn't tighten it, it would loosen it.

 @conoat: Which way do your rockers rotate more?

 @hirvi: lol. they rotate equally, obviously, but it has to do with which way they rotate when under load.

if there was never any deflection or torsional loading, this wouldn't happen. you'd have equal forces in both directions. but, since under compression in real world riding situations, you get all kinds of twisting and side loading, what ends up happening is there is more friction between the hardware, bearing and frame members when compressed. Not always of course, but there is NEVER any when the bike is in rebound. That is how hardware works loose.

 Probably both. Look at the last pic, then look at the 3rd to last, on the spesh it sort of has ribs on the crowns sides where it clamps around the legs. It's only a very small change

 Perhaps material was added creating the ribs?

 @dhrracer: I think it was added too - stiffness improvement

 @dhrracer: having had a look at the two, it does make the stock version look a little spindly...

 It has been removed, so you can't see it !

 @pbuser2299: he done well to type that blind, so maybe not that dumb

 Cos' you look at them the wrong way.

 I used to run Wicked Wills backwards on purpose because when mounted forwards they just looked wrong.

 Wasn't the Magic Mary supposed to do that?

 You would have thought he'd figure out he needed a longer bike after +20 years racing ‍♂️

 I mean they did a bike for Danny mac, they certainly can make one for minaar

 @Noeserd: isn’t there something about the bikes needing to be available to the public ?

 @Solorider13: That rule only applies to road bikes for whatever weird UCI reason.

 good one! look at his insta, looks like hes been using minions for a long time

 It's an open secret that Specialized Gravity team do not use Specialized tyres, and honestly who can blame 'em. I'm pretty sure the riders like this situation as they can choose to run any tyre they like. I think Loic was mixing Maxxis and Schwalbe at Les Gets, possibly Magic Mary and Shorty.

 I think they were using the new threat pattern in Lourdes wc. At least that was Finn said,they were developing that new tire.

 They Specialized Gravity Team was running the prototype Cannibal tread throughout the week:
www.pinkbike.com/news/tech-randoms-lourdes-dh-world-cup-2022.html

 4, 32, 9, 15. HTH

 Sam Hill also used to do that on his Iron Horse Sunday, but maybe that was just to lower the bars. A different solution for Greg would have been to have a top crown similar to what Boxxer forks have. That the top crown clamps the stanchions a bit lower.

 @tomhoward379: thanks for clearing that up

 It's a good idea, except that area will get full of mud and debris, which they're doing their best to deal with, with that lump of moto foam

 that was a pretty clunky sentence, probably should have read something like "but most riders are not the Redcar Rocket" instead of they, which earlier in the sentence referred to brake levers