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Exactly what I was thinking - far more markers needed on the bits where the track peels away from the bikepark line and the corners in general. Obviously it's not such an issue once it gets ridden in and the riders get used to it but that looks horrible to ride right now. Tape on the corners would give something for the eye to follow.

Weight - a DT 240 is almost exactly 1/2 the weight of an Onyx Classic at 225g vs approx 450g. See here - https://noblwheels.com/blog/actual-hub-weights/?srsltid=AfmBOopgqRWITnH1LqKPPEVzYAPM4TAKrWrI2XQEkSYZ2Em7WcmxjpHu

I do love the way that Chris Ball uses the word WE when referring to the building of the lower tier series when what he actually means is someone else and that it will have to be with no help from WB. So they're milking the sport for all it's worth and giving very little back. I get that they're trying to build the exposure and that can help all the teams generate more income through greater exposure and thus leverage more sponsorship but they're certainly going to take their cut first. I'd be interested to see figures for the number of randoms vs die hard long term fans watching during the Redbull days. Is anyone outside the sport going to watch and of those, who would actually pay for it? I can see people that are already Disco subscribers giving it a go now and again but without some kind of loss leader thing going on (is that the Juniors on Youtube) how are they going to grow it outside that? Also these "Continental" series - how will these wild card entries be weighted? Are there 5 from Asia and 5 from Europe? We could probably fill that allocation from the UK and certainly France would do the same. It just sounds good on paper until you consider the natural imbalances throughout the world. It's so badly considered and I hate to say it but it's obviously very much come from corporate Murica. The UCI are happy to go along with it as they've trousered a load of cash and WB have promised a bright future with more to come but lets face it, they've never had the best interests of the off road sport in mind. Add to that, they're total lack of judgement (Rocky Roads anyone?) and I don't have much hope for the future. I hope I'm wrong.

Maybe in the wet runs wouldn't fit into their nice 3 minutes schedule?

I can't see DW ever making back the money invested in the patent, let alone any profit on this. I do like DW - the DW LInked Sunday was a beaut and the Atherton bikes similar but this does seem a case of stating the bleeding obvious rather than a patentable invention.

Can someone please come up with a category for Bernard Kerr to win please? He's had the season of his life and could be runner up in at least 3 of the "Best of" categories.

Sucks. Get well soon Troy.

Is there any indication as to whether RedBull were ever in the running for this? Have they dropped MTB coverage after the UCI raised the rent or did the UCI go out to the market with the whole bundle and Disco came in as the highest bidder so it's sayonara Redbull? Either way it's harsh on Redbull given they've bankrolled the whole thing for so long. I doubt we'll ever know the ins and out f the reasons behind this but I guess we've just got to thank RB for all the investment and the free coverage. They've obviously sunk a decent amount of money into the coverage of the sport and we as viewers have reaped the benefits through their free to air channel. Ok some of the coverage hasn't been perfect but it has had Warner and A/N Other and it's been free and readily available and they've figured out ways to work with the likes of Cathro and other outside guys to provide a much richer coverage. Worse case scenario is that it goes behind a paywall at an outrageous price, has adverts and the coverage is poor by comparison to the FTA predecessors. Best case is it's everything we could want; good filming, rich content, informed commentators (Warner) and represents decent value for money. I'd certainly consider paying for the latter. Fingers crossed here. Interested to see what they're proposing.

I’ve got a single pivot, Onyx hub and run flat pedals - I ought to be having all sorts of pedal kickback issues given some of the feedback up there but I don’t feel anything different to running a low engagement Hope hub. I agree with Seb, it’s all in people’s heads. Buy that Ochain placebo if you buy into it but it’s not really doing anything except adding a load of slack into your initial pedal pickup and I thought we all agreed that was bad . . . didn’t we? I’m off to watch the Vorsprung video.

“I’m not easily impressed, and this is f****** impressive.” +1 That is an awesome piece of design and engineering. Maximum kudos for this! It has so many positives and the only downside I can think of is that it doesn't address the asymmetric rear hub but that's hardly part of it's remit so I'll forgive it. Fingers crossed you get a lot of uptake and become very successful.