Absolutely! 💪

Thanks, Joaquín! 🙌

absolutely. why be anywhere else!

Did redbull just predict the supercaliber?

A appreciate Shimano philosophy about chains: the junction must be the stronger spot of the chain.

They’re not tough enough for XC. It’s a brutal sport.

Do you have the song name??

ha! that's what I'm looking for too, maybe @Red Bull Bike can tell us the name of this song?

WTF??

@@01NOLAN01 “Rip” as in “rip”, not “rip” as in “R.I.P.” (rest in peace).

@@keirfarnum6811 Understood. Thank you

A por que vos de fijo tenés un nivelazo. A una copa mundial de xco no va cualquier mediocre... las caídas y aspectos mecánicos son parte de la carrera, si no tenés suerte no ganas, si no tenés las piernas no ganas, si no haces las cosas bien no ganas. Todo eso suma y al final el ganador es el que tiene un poco más de todo eso. El ganó y bien merecido, el quizas no existe.

Speed. The 29ers are just faster.

Mountain bike would simply be 8 time slower in the climb. And the problem of downhill biking is that if ou remove the pedalling part, you might as well take a motocross, at least you can go up the hill with it without assistance. Downhill is redundant.

4vR3n: Ha Ha. I mtb an average of 5 days a week on many different trail systems in my state and surrounding. Three are 15 minutes, 25 and 40 minutes from my house. Those are my daily rides. I resort ride maybe 3 times a year (ski lifts). So 95% how do you think I get to the top of the hills/mountains? Pedaling. I enjoy the uphill climbs. The downhill rush is my reward for the effort getting to the top. While an XC bike could get to the top on about 75% of the climbs it would involve numerous short walks between pedaling. XC bikes are not capable of the roots and jank on the steep switch backs. These trails are not the simple ascents in World Cup XC trails. They are orders of magnitude more difficult in the tough sections. So yeah my enduro bike most certainly is faster than XC bikes on these climbs. The simple climbs encountered on XC courses? XC bikes are of course significantly faster - that is their forte. My guess is - with a great rider - XC bikes may have a 20%-30% advantage. Purely an educated guess but hardly the absurd 800% you state. I love speed. I love jumps. I love drops. Much like skiing which was always my first love. Nothing like a great flow trail jump line for me (Picture A-line at Whistler). But I love it all when the wheels are tracking downhill. Don’t get me wrong - World Cup XC is awesome. Red Bull’s 3-year series “Fast Life” featuring Kate Courtney’s rise to the top is the best sporting series I have ever watched. It’s just not Mountain biking. It’s XC biking. (If you haven’t seen “Fast Life” watch it. KZfaq or Red Bull TV.).

Have some respect! XC IS mountain biking. Back in the day, DH was something that only happened at the elite level. Mountain biking isn’t just about going down hill. Most of those enduro and DH guys would wimp out on a real 80 mile ride in the backcountry. I used to alpine ski race and, like you, thought the same about Nordic skiing; until I started racing XC and learned how brutal and hard endurance sports are. It takes incredible grit and a seriously high pain tolerance to do any endurance sport. And XC mountain biking puts that endurance with the high speed of going downhill too; so it’s the best of both worlds put together. Without XC, enduro and DH wouldn’t exist; for decades, XC was the only game in town.

@@keirfarnum6811 I have lots of respect for World Cup XC. Love watching race highlights and such things as Red Bull “Fast Life”. What makes it interesting is the race though - the competition - jockeying for the win. Merely watching an XC’r alone is like watching paint dry. The riding is boring. The trail is boring. Absolutely pro XC’rs are world class endurance athletes that follow punishing training regimes much like distance running or Nordic XC. Totally respect that. But it’s not mountain biking to me. I’ve never seen a XC bike on any mountain I’ve ever rode. If I did that person would be walking a lot and risking major injury. I’m biased towards speed, big jumps, drops, steep gnar. Consequential, adrenaline riding. Much like elite alpine skiing - my first love. I XC ski, skijor and snowshoe a lot. Mainly to stay fit and see wildlife... as a form of locomotion to get to backcountry winter campsites and to enjoy “my” wolf packs singing in the night. (I also do some dog mushing once or twice a year when a friend hooks me up with one of his teams which can get very exciting on winding fast trails.) XC skiing itself though is boring. What makes it fun is the environs I do it in. If I had to do it in semi-urban areas or rural farmland I wouldn’t do it. Life is too short. Mountain biking on the other hand is always exciting. Even the steep climbs up because it earns you that heart thumping ride down. Lift assisted resort riding is a form of cheating but it sure is fun a few times a year.

@@keirfarnum6811 For your viewing pleasure the following vid demonstrates why I love downhill mountain biking in all its forms. It’s so damn fun. Skip to the 6:40 mark - the rest of the vid is unrelated content. At the 6:40 mark a bunch of male and female pros along with an assorted bunch of high end weekend warriors get together to form a “party train” for kicks. It’s just so damn much fun. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jtp7frSpv6zXYYk.html