Bush:
What discipline is Lea competing in?
Give us a heads up if she is going to be on television.
Would be fun to watch someone "that Bushwacka had trained"!! (or at least raced against)
we ride and race together some of the time. She routinely beats the men's pro field.....
she races XC the only MTB discipline in the olympics, she also does Short Track and Super D both of which are not in the olympics.
Svend there was some amazing good rear suspension designs 3 years ago. maestro, DW link, VPP, and the outliers of I drive, and Haros Unified rear triangle designs. The big companies tried and continue to produce some pretty poor Rear suspension designs.
maybe my trails are rougher but my FS bike is always faster than my SS bike. My ss has purpose and that is to be fun and make me stronger but not amount of skill makes up the difference of Hardtail to a FS if the FS rider is really good.
the performance returns on tubeless are not mariginal and untill you have tried it you have no leg to stand on to tell me otherwise. I do not care how good your friends are, but they are closed minded. these guys have not rode a bike with tubeless tires because if they did there is no way they would ever go back.
tubeless tires with tubeless rim what fuss? none! it easier to mount than a tubed tire