nickvandine

Curious what the full track times were. 3 min, 4 min, etc. What I mean is on this track there seems to be roughly a 1/2 sec performance increase per year (19 yrs apart and 11 sec difference). That's pretty meaningless though because it only applies to that one track. Assuming a normal dh track of 4 min on the modern bike that would mean that over 19 years technology has made us 4.5% faster which is pretty cool. But that also means we only average a little more than 0.2% improvement in technological advantage each year which isn't too significant. Long story short, what that really means is that for every year your bike ages you only loose about 7 seconds per hour. At least for a dh bike. It would be neat to see the math on this for trail bikes, xc race bikes, and road bikes too. Maybe we can do a boost meter for dirt jumpers to convert the experiment into vertical blastage instead of a measurement of time.