stiingya

Agreed! Gotta say other than riding video's I'd rather read an article and peruse photos as time permits. (OR sometimes stare for hours while drooling on my keyboard at some $12,000 build, ya know. One of those) ALTHOUGH, obviously it's hard to capture some of the "flavor" you get with these kinds of interviews and i do appreciate what goes into them! Be great if they could snap a still and do a couple sentences beneath for each bike too...? Just sayin...

Isn't the "life" of a 23mm wide I.D. rim already OVER...? :)

Sure does suck when your in the "new" phase or decide to try and change up your suspension and have to grab a tool every few minutes just to make a click up or down...

Still holding on to those 5 year old seat tube angles though... meh

So in the future.....were back to slack seat angles... great...

I don't get how the Emtb part of this article is relevant to the larger topic of racing's return on investment? Plenty of people will buy a new Intense because they see Aaron Gwin riding one. But whether they end up with a Tazer Emtb, or an M16/M29 or Carbine, etc. it doesn't matter. The point is they see him racing an Intense and are thinking of that the next time they buy a bike. Done. And though I do agree that a lot of mountain bike race coverage could use improvement, again I don't see some kind of direct tie in with Emtbs? It's just the return on investment finding it's natural place. They have no problem covering every aspect of Survivor, or the Amazing Race, or all kinds of various "reality TV shows". It's just called putting cameras EVERYWHERE. But back to the ROI of mountain bike racing there just isn't enough money spilling out to do that for every race. And then I kind of get your point of Supercross showing how to package something to make it easy to provide camera coverage. AND "maybe" this is where your going with Emtb's? That we should throw Emtb racers in arena's in a city center near you and let them fly??? HOWEVER, I don't see the need of mountain bike racing to be in city arena's. At that point it's no longer mountain bike racing and who gives a shit? Emtbs in an arena aren't going to be any fun unless you get rid of the pedal assist and make them electric dirt bikes. AND if I'm gonna watch dirt bikes race I'd rather hear the BRRRAAAPPPPP.... AND there are/have been any number of formats created to make mountain biking more easily packaged for spectators and great TV coverage. Dual Slalom, short track, "biker cross", etc. It's not that those formats don't already exist.

cept his big ol quote beneath the video where he says it would have been better with a bigger fork...

Oops meant to upvote... agree, someone handlaying a carbon frame to custom specifications would be just as cool... All the carbon haters like to forget the mess that gets made getting aluminum and steel..

@NOCHARGE4AWESOMENESS: mud will be slung for that mistake...

PB does right, publishes all the winners this year... comments still 90% bitchhng about not winning... LOL