2024 UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Championships

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8/25/2024 9:38am

5 years ago, world champs pit bits video - things have moved pretty fast since then.

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8/25/2024 9:59am Edited Date/Time 8/25/2024 10:02am

Well .....the Scott, and Pivot are still going (just) , the V10 and Glory have only just been updated (and pretty lightly). Did the current Demo come out in 2019?
Why are the M29 and Aurum Hp regarded as being so bad?

Covid and the bikopolypse knocked releases back but DH bike development is pretty slow.

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8/25/2024 11:15am
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Well .....the Scott, and Pivot are still going (just) , the V10 and Glory have only just been updated (and pretty lightly). Did the current Demo...

Well .....the Scott, and Pivot are still going (just) , the V10 and Glory have only just been updated (and pretty lightly). Did the current Demo come out in 2019?
Why are the M29 and Aurum Hp regarded as being so bad?

Covid and the bikopolypse knocked releases back but DH bike development is pretty slow.

Both the HSP and the M29 suffered from terrible kinematics. They are hyper progressive resulting in a very soft initial 30% of travel and very firm last 30% of travel. The result is you end up with wallowy midstroke support and harshness deep in the travel disrupting the rider position and requiring a lot of rider input to keep stable. The lack of support in the first half of the travel made cornering very challenging. HSP in particular had a very flat initial leverage curve which meant compression support came on late and delayed rider inputs during corner engagement. 

Of the two the HSP was probably the better bike just because with the axle path effect on leverage you could run a firmer spring with fewer downsides to tracking in the rough. 

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8/26/2024 2:31am

Frameworks continuing to do cool stuff - they decided to spend money on frame improvements as opposed to flashy paintjobs for Worlds:

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8/26/2024 8:27am Edited Date/Time 8/26/2024 8:27am

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8/26/2024 10:41am

Here we go, first looks at some Worlds bikes coming in hot! Amaury's Commencal by the Commencal Muc-Off team:

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8/26/2024 10:43am

More Commencal radness, these are for Max and Till Alran as well as Dylan Maples:

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8/26/2024 1:02pm

I gotta go back and watch 2023 Worlds. Remember nothing.

Wait...how DO you go back and watch it? Who owns the rights?
I remember watching via a VPN but that's it

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bizutch wrote:
I gotta go back and watch 2023 Worlds. Remember nothing.Wait...how DO you go back and watch it? Who owns the rights?I remember watching via a VPN...

I gotta go back and watch 2023 Worlds. Remember nothing.

Wait...how DO you go back and watch it? Who owns the rights?
I remember watching via a VPN but that's it

For us Australians we can watch the replays in full, on demand and for free of the last few World Champs on SBS on Demand who owns the rights for the UCI World Championships across all cycling disciplines.

2023
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2021
 

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8/26/2024 5:54pm

schroeder, john hall and tanner with the pre-race podcast

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8/27/2024 2:34am

Damn, Angel's full kit with gold helmet and goggles is sick! 

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8/27/2024 7:24am

the gold fox springs w/ the gold forks are so good. LOL kolb!

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8/27/2024 8:03am

world champs pit bits vid from lawlor

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8/27/2024 8:31am Edited Date/Time 8/27/2024 8:54am

Absolutely brutal slam @12.07. I hope she's OK. Edit; Apparently she dislocated her hip, but is otherwise OK.

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8/27/2024 8:35am Edited Date/Time 8/27/2024 8:50am

Ok, had to stop the pit bits for this very important question: Where can I get those custom name tyre hot patches like Nina Hoffman? I will be very clear here, money is no object! 

 

Update: https://www.stickythings.co.uk cheap enough, but will take a bit of time to design the patch and could end up looking rubbish. Will probably give it a go one day for the laugh.

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8/27/2024 11:13am

bernard's bike and vlog

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8/27/2024 12:46pm
veefour wrote:

Absolutely brutal slam @12.07. I hope she's OK. Edit; Apparently she dislocated her hip, but is otherwise OK.

That was brutal. Forgot you put that warning in & it just caught me off guard.   I hope she doesn't have any serious head trauma b/c of that either.

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8/27/2024 12:49pm Edited Date/Time 8/27/2024 2:36pm

Imagine thinking you're on the wooden roll, then that moment of realisation as your front wheel drops off the road gap (BK's vlog @12.30).

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8/27/2024 12:51pm

Action from junior training today (first half of the edit, the second half is the elite trackwalk...it's all in French but you can turn on youtube's autotranslate captions if you want to follow along...):

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8/27/2024 1:02pm

Johan has already posted a bunch of the custom bikes and gear from Worlds above, but here are some more that you can vote on, too.

The Custom Bikes and Kits of World Champs 2024 (Part 1) - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/custom-bikes-and-kits-world-champs-2024-part-1

The Custom Bikes and Kits of World Champs 2024 (Part 2) - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/custom-bikes-and-kits-world-champs-2024-part-2 

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