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  1. DieselnDust
    yeah old Posthumus doing his thing over there
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    Luke currently running 5th leading chase group 2, lap 4 of 7
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    Luke 10th candice 10th alan 3rd great results all round from teamSA
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    Agreed, Araxa does have highly complex features but it is a fast course. It is not Nove Mesto instance where 60% of the lap is getting over roots. However the features that are present are extreme enough to have warranted intervention by the course commissaire.
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    Having been participatory to some XCO courses in Wales and NW England as talking to to guys like Bennet and Meurant I've learned a few thigs about course requirements. What you and I consider a technical challenge doesn't work when you have 120 people all trying to William Wallace the feature. Technical climbs have to be either narrow and fast or slow and wide to allow riders to clear it. There has to be a flow that sets a rhythm for the race. Creating bottlenecks is a disaster because you then break the race within 500m. So course designers have taken the idea of spreading the field out with a wide steep climb at the beginning leading into a fast flowing section before the techy stuff starts. Hence start loops often don't have techy features but rather hurding features that thins the field gradually before the race settles on lap 1. Then a series of races also has to have a variety of courses Some are steep (Albstadt, Andorra) some fast (Stellenbosch, Snow Shoe, Mairipora), some a mix (les Gets, Mt St Anne). Then there's the 2Dcamera flattening features on the trail. i'm sure we can ride more technical trails any day of the week but I can assure you that the easiest World Cup course is a more technical than any most trail we ride daily
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    we laugh about the saddle thingy but that **** is real. Okes are using saddles that shouldn't work for them but because "S" they will shoehorn their bottoms onto it. The result is chaffed lycra. Choose the right saddle okes
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    No one crashed heavily but many of the riders expressed concern that some of the features required too much speed to clear and if someone got it wrong it would result in the race being stopped to clear bodies. The changes won't stop the front riders from leaping it but the mid field to tail end now have a bale out option if someone gets it wrong. Remember there are 120+ riders in the mens elite field, 80+ in the ladies elite and not all are within 5% of the top 10
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    The U23 XCC wasn't livestreamed unfortunately.
  9. DieselnDust
    Is the U23 not televised this weekend? The U23 XCC is currently on according to the schedule
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    Something like 22 changes requested by the UCI
  11. DieselnDust
    I see we are celebrating Friday funnies like old TIMEs
  12. DieselnDust
    the can't even build cranks that don't break...!!
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    No power meter option at launch?
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    Also purchased from Cyclelab discounted to R1999 maybe they knew there’s a problem with production run
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    Possibly think you are right. However that type of consumer is not going to shop anywhere other than their high street store because they can’t let their friends know they’re poor. the unashamedly poor will always shop for value and if DC can deliver sporting goods that is recognisable in the sports media then they will appeal to new entrants and more established cyclists alike. I find it easier to shop at sportsman’s warehouse for certain goods because of the Vitality benefit and lately some stores also have quite competent people (using tokai and rondebosch as examples and acknowledge it’s a small sample). Market the Van Rysel and Rockrider brands appropriately they will sell. The timing is right.
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    Also have a relatively new Assos Mille gt with a hole thats developed. Also no warranty .quite disappointing
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    That’s no Rama’s fault though. When the global economy turns downward, emerging markets take the hit because there is less appetite for the risk associated with those emerging markets. there are other factors as well but that’s the overarching causal for the exchange rate decline. We saw it post 2007 as well
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    That just won’t work here. I’d rather just support Cabal because I’d buy a van Rysel due to the value the brand offers. That value will just be eroded through a high street store.
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    They’d sell well if sold in SA. Good competition for TitanRacing assuming decathlon brings them in and sells direct to consumer because we just know a distributor will be looking to pay off a few Porsches with these….
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    Origami coaching?
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    None in SA at the moment. Bikemob was the last distributor but they shut down a few years ago
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    Even if those riders were being coached by “the company” at the time that does not implicate “the company” since many elite athletes have their coach and an advisor and a nutritionist and whoever else they need that can provide their needs. Lance had dr Ferrari and a more visible coach ( can’t remember the name) plus motorman. rourckes doping was as obvious as the midday sun in a dessert. He went from absolutely nowhere to suddenly outsprinting the front of an international XCO field. Even Rob Warner asked what’s going on there where did that come from…
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    Hitler said the same about the Jews in the 1930’s…he just used economic dominance as an excuse….... slippery slope she’s on..// slippery slope
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    Coaches also sign an oath and have to complete the anti doping training through WADA. They’re can be determined to be complicit to the athletes transgressions. CSA now requires all athletes, their coaches and support crewto take the anti doping training!
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