UCI meeting to discuss Schladming vs. Leogang:
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
Monday, June 8, 2015
Jammin
It took me two minutes to realize I could put it on mute and experience it like a real deaf person.
Also check these prices for National Champs this year:
$295 seems reasonable for Dual Slalom and Downhill. Oh yeah, and then add $40 for lift tickets. Like an idiot I'll end up paying whatever it costs, no matter the price, but it begs the question: what does all this money go towards? These are the ROBOTS best leads:
Chocolate fountain for the officials:
Building a money mountain to ski down:
Swimming pool full of jello:
Or maybe USA Cycling doesn't even get the money and they don't get to swim in jello or ski down piles of gold. Maybe they're just a low-level evil player in a much bigger evil organization, and all their money gets shipped away to the big evil organization that's building a huge, evil-looking lair far away in the mountains, from which to carry out sweeping evil plans of world domination and extortion, headed by some bizarre older looking evil guy. And maybe USA Cycling has to do whatever marching orders come down the pike from evil hierarchy at the big evil organization:
But what would an evil looking mountain lair for a global evil empire even look like?
Friday, June 5, 2015
BREAKING NEWS!!!! from TEAM ROBOT
UCI kills another revenue stream for downhill: http://www.pinkbike.com/news/uci-notification-on-helmet-cams-2015.html
In a related story, UCI execs wonder aloud why downhill isn't more successful during meeting to decide what color to paint Learjet for U23 XC olympic hopefuls for bi-annual training camp.
In a related story, UCI execs wonder aloud why downhill isn't more successful during meeting to decide what color to paint Learjet for U23 XC olympic hopefuls for bi-annual training camp.
Thursday, June 4, 2015
Pinkbike wisdom
Listening to Pinkbike commenters discuss the new GW Link is priceless.
Don't hold this to me but it looks like Gwin's new linkage is cnc'd from ali and this technology won him a world cup over the carbon linkage.
-Pete19
Yeah, it's cause his shock link was made of aluminum instead of carbon. That's definitely what did it for him.
Don't hold this to me but it looks like Gwin's new linkage is cnc'd from ali and this technology won him a world cup over the carbon linkage.
-Pete19
Yeah, it's cause his shock link was made of aluminum instead of carbon. That's definitely what did it for him.
Tuesday, June 2, 2015
Monday, June 1, 2015
UNREAListic
This has nothing to do with mountain biking at all:
There always has to be a twist, theme, or angle to these arthouse mountain bike films. Some heavy-handed plot or storyline they're trying to tell. Apparently it can never simply be "here's a movie about people mountain biking." There needs to be a helicopter chase scene or a jail break or muscle cars or horses running or anything else that has nothing to do with bikes.
There are two explanations I keep coming back to:
A) They just don't care about mountain biking, or
B) Maybe they like mountain biking on its own merits, but they don't believe other people will.
This probably doesn't represent everyone involved in these productions. There are probably leagues of misguided mountain bikers who genuinely think they're helping the cause or raising exposure or sharing the stoke or whatever. But explanation A or B (probably A) is almost certainly the story behind the DP's and producers and all the official film-type people involved for these snoozefests.
What other reason could you give for trying to stuff and cram our beloved sport into some storyline about Cam McCaul running through Chicago wearing his dad's suit? TGR is a ski-movie production company that gave up caring about skiing a decade ago, so the odds of them caring about bikes is approaching zero. The guys at TGR are care about bikes the same way I care about free samples at Costco.
I'm not going to pass on free guacamole, but I'm definitely not buying three pounds of it just cause Trudy wore her "I heart avocado" pin today.
There always has to be a twist, theme, or angle to these arthouse mountain bike films. Some heavy-handed plot or storyline they're trying to tell. Apparently it can never simply be "here's a movie about people mountain biking." There needs to be a helicopter chase scene or a jail break or muscle cars or horses running or anything else that has nothing to do with bikes.
There are two explanations I keep coming back to:
A) They just don't care about mountain biking, or
B) Maybe they like mountain biking on its own merits, but they don't believe other people will.
This probably doesn't represent everyone involved in these productions. There are probably leagues of misguided mountain bikers who genuinely think they're helping the cause or raising exposure or sharing the stoke or whatever. But explanation A or B (probably A) is almost certainly the story behind the DP's and producers and all the official film-type people involved for these snoozefests.
What other reason could you give for trying to stuff and cram our beloved sport into some storyline about Cam McCaul running through Chicago wearing his dad's suit? TGR is a ski-movie production company that gave up caring about skiing a decade ago, so the odds of them caring about bikes is approaching zero. The guys at TGR are care about bikes the same way I care about free samples at Costco.
I'm not going to pass on free guacamole, but I'm definitely not buying three pounds of it just cause Trudy wore her "I heart avocado" pin today.
Laugh at my failure
I think I got beat by, like, ten guys on DVO forks. I think Jill even beat me maybe.
In a related story, some guy keeps posting this photo in the comments section of all the Spring Classic ProGRT articles on Pinkbike. I think he really thinks this is a rad picture. I like the fact that you can clearly see tire marks for the fast line, about three feet to the inside of the turn.
Thanks for this trend, freeriders.
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