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@Bikethrasher: Yeah, but that shouldn't clash with any form of decent behavior, does it? If you join a party at anyones place, you make sure you don't leave a mess, repair and compensate what's broken. If for some reason you're not able or not willing to do that, don't join the party.

What? Your friends keep riding as you take a dump under a bridge? What else would you expect them to do? That said, I'm very gullible and you seem like a very trustworthy person, I don't need your proof, thank you.

Hm, yeah, I might have to dig through my old (but equally yet deservedly un-free) Earthed dvds to see whether this wee wall ride might be featured in some Scottish race runs there. I'm not too surprised it isn't featured. Heck, I don't even know what you're talking about.

@korev: Look FARTher down.

@ROOTminus1: Yeah, loved that one much better. The question always was back then, what is 4X racing really supposed to be like? It is mountainbiking after all so I liked seeing the woods and rocks sections in there too, not just the BMX jumps.

Should be pretty easily solved by just agreeing up front that everyone is together is responsible for all the damage caused by the bunch. That's what you'd agree upon as well when you go out with your friends and something bad happens. Unless someone personally takes the blame, this is also how it is being solved. It means that everyone feels responsible for what someone else is doing and it also implies that you're not going to join if you don't trust the others. Yes this does mean you can't have big anonymous events in a vulnerable reserve but then again, maybe you shouldn't have that in the first place. And no, I don't like the mess racers leave and the damage they inflict to the trails either.

Iron Horse did the "take a great iconic company, steal the money and leave it for dead" management trick well before it became popular.

@sophisticatedhonky: Nah, I wouldn't call it dumb. It may just not suit you but that's a different story. It would only be dumb to splash out on one of these systems expecting quick shifts whereas they were pretty clear up front that it would be slower than anything else on the market.

@dan23dan23: From what I understand about the SRAM transmission stuff, faster shifting wasn't the goal and it was designed fully aware that the shifting was going to be slower. It is more of an "easy does it" approach. That said, still riding a Shimano Zee mech and shifter combo here :).

@brianpark: You could have done a burst and rendered them into a gif-animation. If each of them would have one person looking weird and everyone else just fine, it would have been an interesting animation.