LAST CHANCE: Take Part in Our New Public Survey for State of the Sport 2024

Mar 21, 2024
by Ed Spratt  
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Pinkbike's State of the Sport Survey is back for its third iteration with a new public survey launching today.

Alongside surveying some of the best riders in the world, we thought it would be great to hear your thoughts and ideas on mountain biking as we go into the 2024 season.

We thought given some of the changes and struggles happening to the sport right now, it would be worthwhile to get a perspective from top riders and collect thoughts from anyone who follows the sport in a new separate public survey.

As we have done in the past, anonymous surveys are on the way to a group of the world's best riders' inboxes for their thoughts about the state of mountain biking in 2024. We will continue to cover all of their answers as we have done before with a week of insights into the data.

The new public survey will feature questions on race coverage, rider pay and other important questions about the sport's health and how you interact with racing in 2024. While many of the questions will be unique to this survey, we have created areas where we can compare answers from the professional rider survey.

The results of our public survey will be featured in a standalone article once we begin releasing the data for this year's State of the Sport in April. We hope that those who wish to provide us with answers to our questions will answer truthfully and to ensure people do not send in multiple surveys, we have asked for you to input an email address. Your inputted email addresses will only be used to ensure people do not submit more than one survey.

Over the next two weeks, our public State of the Sport survey will be open to responses, with us shutting the survey at 9 am PST on March 22.

We will then trawl through the mountain of data before we release the results of the surveys with deep dives into the most interesting findings in the first half of April.

If you wish to complete our survey, you can provide your answers with the link below.



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160 Comments
  • 161 3
 This is a great opportunity to take a fat shit all over Warner bros discovery. Highly recommend!
  • 47 2
 Warner Bros Discovery is a plague upon the earth, not just MTB racing
  • 4 2
 I went in an did just that..... al profession like of course. lol
  • 1 2
 This!!!
  • 12 2
 I hope WB goes bankrupt and sells it back to Redbull for a loss, and then they bring Rob back. BOOM. oh.... and NO MORE SEMIS
  • 4 1
 Also to shout "BRING BACK ROB WARNER!"
  • 4 2
 Don't forget Norb's got robbed!
  • 2 1
 @agnostic: never forget lol
  • 1 2
 @dmackyaheard: that's what she said...
  • 1 2
 @headshot: Actually if you cast your mind back she said f*cking.
  • 2 2
 Amen! The DH WC is not what it used to be with all the changes and they way you have t watch it now. UCI you suck!
  • 1 0
 The answer is “more DVDA”
… for all questions
  • 101 3
 I CANT FUCKING WATCH MTB RACING IN CANADA BECAUSE WE GOT ABSOLUTELY FUCKED OVER BY THE CURRENT OWNERS OF THE BROADCAST RIGHTS.
  • 4 0
 Hear hear!!
  • 68 0
 Let me add one more thing. For all you Canadian athletes racing at the highest level. Your voice matters so get loud and remind those at the races that are filming you and making money off it that your own bloody family, countrymen and young kids who look up to you cant even watch.... And PinkBike you too as a Canadian based company should be raising far more of a shit storm about this....and being a louder voice in fighting for coverage... Id stand behind you deciding to not post any highlights or coverage for 2024 as a protest for the bullshit that we have to look forward too for 2024.
  • 29 71
flag danielfloyd FL (Mar 8, 2024 at 12:32) (Below Threshold)
 And on top of that, you have to live in Canada
  • 7 0
 Same issue for those of us in the Southern Hemisphere. WBD only knows of USA and Europe apparently. (And its not just MTB they've screwed over)
  • 24 10
 @danielfloyd: Only an American can make such an arrogant comment. I bet you actually think the USA is the greatest country
  • 23 4
 @danielfloyd: shouldn't you be soaking and shaking with a cousin or something?
  • 14 3
 @WhateverBikes:Of course he thinks it's the greatest country, he's been told to think that his entire life.
  • 10 0
 @TheBearDen: I have been trying to get some confirmation from WBD about coverage for people outside of Europe, the UK and the US. The last I heard from WBD in February I was told details about coverage in other countries was coming soon.

With the XC World Cup season starting in a few weeks, we should hopefully have some news soon. I'm going to be creating an updated 'how to watch' article ahead of the first XC World Cup which will hopefully have some answers.
  • 15 6
 @danielfloyd: If I had to choose where to live in North America, it would definitely be Canada. Quality of life and nature so much better.
  • 5 0
 @edspratt: thank you for this! It seems crazy we still don't have any info.

I hate being the Debby downer but I'm afraid 2024 is more than likely going to have us left in the dark. And possibly a solution for 2025...

I already subscribe to flobikes for all the cyclocross and road racing... And part of me wanted to believe they were gonna send me an email saying that for 50 bucks more I could get UCI world cup... But I'm not holding my breath.

But I still stand by PB boycotting the world cup and not posting updates, results or any of that shit as a way to protest what's going on. This affects many countries... Many of which have users on this website...
  • 7 1
 @WhateverBikes: it was a joke. And no I don't think America is the greatest country. But I sure prefer it to a lot of other places.
  • 2 2
 @TheBearDen: gross. No.
  • 1 0
 @edspratt: thanks, can you also please find out if we will be able to watch replays or only live on Max in the US?
  • 1 2
 @edspratt:
What an absolute shit show the UCI WC series is.
  • 1 0
 @edspratt: Cheers!
  • 95 8
 This is free market research for Outside.
Lets make a deal , Pinkbike stops putting auto play ads on videos & I'll participate in your free market research exercise.
Or pay for the data like everyone else ? Even grocery store chains give me something for my data (loyalty / points cards)
  • 16 0
 we all know a forum for complaining is worth more than data, so we're already on the better end of this deal
  • 11 0
 @tim-from-pa: don’t forget win it Wednesday. If we stick around long enough we’re bound to get our hands on a suntour fork!
  • 2 3
 Or you can fill it out and at every opportunity, click "prefer not to answer" or "other" and then completely BS everything else while never giving them your email. f*ck outside.....is something I never thought I would say but here we are.
  • 2 1
 Can't browse at work without using all my data sure sucks.

How about the state of pinkbike?
  • 2 1
 @MidwestMountains: I did the survey but the grammar nazi in me was not impressed: Very easy, Easy, Somewhat easy, Somewhat hard, Hard, and Very hard are all (grammatically) incorrect answers to the question "how difficult do you think [something] will be." In such cases, I was forced to answer Neutral or skip ahead.
  • 1 0
 @gmiller720: HAHA so true
  • 4 0
 @mi-bike: Neither Dissatisfied.
  • 1 0
 @gmiller720: Not if you're in Qc... Frown
  • 1 0
 @cool3: Im very interested to know why QC is excluded - its gotta be a legal issue
  • 1 0
 @dgwww: my Québécois amis said that they are excluded from almost all draws and give aways because the QC alcohol and gambling regulator requires all companies offering prizes to register and place a security deposit with them for the value of the prize until it is claimed. So if PB wants to give away a frame or fork or wheelset or whatever they would need to register and give the regulator a deposit which would be returned once the prize is actually given away.
  • 1 0
 @gmiller720: Sounds like more useful Quebec-only regulation. Bravo governement de Quebec !
  • 82 0
 Headset cable routing - bad Lower prices - good Racing - too hard to watch, don't care anymore Trails - more please E-Bikes - not the savior the industry thinks they are Gear - simpler is better Advertisers - tone it down
  • 5 0
 This guy knows what time it is!
  • 1 0
 A hot potato but not a hot take. Homie gets it
  • 1 0
 Not even unpopular opinions.
  • 2 0
 Dang, this one should be at the very top....
  • 51 0
 “Pinkbike’s Anonymous State of the Sport Survey”. First field (mandatory) requires your email address. Hmmm…..
  • 13 0
 smells phishy....
  • 2 1
 you dont have to verify, so its anonymous.
  • 7 0
 They know exactly who were are already.
  • 3 0
 That's for your advent calendar prizes
  • 3 0
 @suspended-flesh: Possibly because it's been stored in your browser, not because it has been submitted already.

@korbi777: It isn't anonymous if you enter your e-mail address, or (because you don't have to verify) you can simply use a non-existent e-mail address (or that of someone you don't like). Surely someone has already used d.pound@uci.ch, no?
  • 2 0
 @vinay: Unless we have been ultra-vigilant about NEVER EVER allowing cookies on any website we've ever visited and only using a private browser on VPN with burner email addresses, the entire internet knows our full names, age, gender, phone numbers, addresses, family members, credit score, etc..... Privacy is a mirage
  • 49 0
 The survey should be called the state of professional mountain bike racing, not the state of the sport.
  • 16 1
 Yeah...I have zero interest in professional sports. I only care about my own participation, and kinda thought that's what the questions would be about.
  • 14 0
 Agree. I can't even answer most of the questions. I have no idea who the national body is or what they do. I gave up after a couple pages. I guess I'll just ride my bike and be happy.
  • 42 0
 Could have done with the option of "I used to watch the live feed until it went behind a paywall"
  • 14 1
 Seriously. That would have been 90% of people's answers.
  • 3 4
 @ridedigrepeat: think you'd be surprised how many paid to watch....
  • 2 9
flag wolftwenty1 FL (Mar 8, 2024 at 13:04) (Below Threshold)
 @ridedigrepeat: lol. Zero chance. Got news for you...most people just paid for it like they will this year.
  • 8 0
 The question "How likely are you to pay for access to this year's World Cup race coverage?"

Missed the answer "No Friggin' Way!"
  • 1 0
 @mi-bike:
Pay more money for worse coverage?
Yeah, nah.
  • 20 1
 Quite a few of those answers needed a "I don't know" option... I ended picking quite a few answers out of my ass ,. jus to proceed...
  • 10 8
 None of the questions are required so you can skip any you don't feel you can answer.
  • 21 3
 @edspratt: The survey design effectively encourages people to guess though
  • 10 7
 @ESch: good lord guys...they are MTB journalists not data science PhDs. Just dont click it if you dont want to do it.
  • 9 3
 @edspratt: That is not clear to the person taking the survey
  • 4 2
 @NERyder: Thanks for the feedback. It is stated on the welcome page for the survey but I will see if we can make this clearer.
  • 4 0
 @edspratt: it’d be nice when you guys share the results you disclose how many people answered/declined to answer a question.
  • 6 2
 @wolftwenty1: if you don’t conduct and analyze a survey like the data science phds do then the conclusions anyone can draw from the results are severely limited. The most basic ethical consideration you can give to your pool of respondents includes letting them know what the point of the survey is. If you can’t draw any conclusions with any confidence it raises the question wtf was the point of asking for a piece of every respondent’s time.
It’s a common misconception that scientists use extraordinary methods to gather some extraordinary upper tier quality of information, and lesser methods are fine for some lesser purpose. It’s closer to the truth to say scientists use the bare minimum methodology still capable of producing data that isn’t trash. Finding that line is one of the many job skills of a scientist. Aim any lower, cut any corners, and you likely end up with trash.
  • 8 1
 @edspratt: how comes "state of the sport" gets boiled down to "how can we convince you to pay for the WB garbage?".
  • 3 3
 @NERyder: It literally says it on the front page. I didn't think this was a disguised literacy test but here we are.
  • 2 0
 I agree. It leads you to make a guess
  • 2 0
 @edspratt: I swear I tried to just go on to the next page, but computer said no...
  • 1 0
 ...
  • 5 0
 @Snfoilhat: dude…it’s mountain biking…they just want to know if you like watching racing and what you think of the format. Sure will they use the data for advertising pitches…obviously. But just being here you’re already giving it to them. Relax.
  • 17 1
 PB Commentariat: “We don’t like what’s happening to racing and one’s listening to what we say!!!! *sob*”

PB: Ok, would you like to express your opinions? Write in this Google Form. We’ll write an article about the results.”

PB Commentariat: “HOW. DARE. YOU.”
  • 15 0
 Blind enduro racing let’s go
  • 11 0
 At least one race a year on the EDR schedule should be blind. Make enduro weird again!

They should also mix it up between massive two day long races with 10 stages, and short one day races with more practice time. A true enduro champion should be a Jack (Moir) of all trades.
  • 3 0
 @ridedigrepeat: or at least one stage a race.
  • 4 2
 @ridedigrepeat: No such thing as a blind race . Somebody or people will always know the stages and then you get a shit result that means nothing....
  • 4 0
 @Ireland2017: I don’t know about that, you could pit me against Jesse Melamed on my favorite trail, which he’s never ridden. He’s still going to beat me without even trying.
  • 4 0
 As a blind person, thank you.
  • 1 0
 @Ireland2017: They used to dig brand new tracks for the EWS in certain places. Maybe doing it for a whole race isn't feasible, but one track a race would be rad. It would also give back to the local community by having a new trail.
  • 12 1
 Unpopular opinion - mountain biking and mountain bike racing is a grassroots participation sport and it should stay that way. There should be enough races within a 1000 mile drive of anywhere on the planet that you could race most weekends of the year. Some of these races will have huge participation and draw the best riders around the country and others will be small and only draw one or two pros each year. The existence of elite World Cup events is not a problem but not a thing anyone should aspire to for this sport. Ultimately the best racers should be dominating the race scene but if they want stiff competition they should go to the biggest events, not make their own event that no one else gets to ride. There should not be a hard rule that the best racers are paid best. The best ambassadors will always be the top tier racers but a lady who consistently rides top 10 at big events might be a better ambassador for a variety of reasons than the best rider in the country and that is OK. Ultimately this is a grassroots participation sport that reaches people the most when they get to participate, interact, and do it with the best in the world (loosely with, my short course shared some trail with xyz great athlete and I definitely saw them at the same start line 20min before I started). Let's all go ride together with aid stations!
  • 4 3
 Racing is lame..no matter what level.
  • 1 2
 @wobblegoblin: let me guess.... You ride an ebike on the weekends your friends are around. You can't hold a manual for more than a couple of metres. At nights you wake up wondering if you'd be 20kg lighter if you had the opportunity to ride bikes constantly in your teens, but life got in the way. There's still time to step in to the light amigo, we're with you
  • 1 1
 EDIT: just checked your profile and I'm so far wrong I'm on another continent, but you should still get into racing Wink
  • 2 0
 @wobblegoblin: lol I can't believe I made a comment that got a response. It is not about 'racing', it is about riding trails when I was going to anyway and raiding the aid stations. ;-)
  • 2 3
 @wobblegoblin: ok boomer
  • 12 2
 Love this wild ass crowd. Provides email address to set up an account and express opinions with reckless abandon. Balks at providing an email address to express said opinions in a quantifiable way. Looking forward to the reader results along side the pros. Great idea Ed!
  • 8 0
 @edspratt: I’m so sorry for all the mindless shit you‘re getting in this comments section. All for trying to make something cool…I feel you and appreciate your efforts Smile
  • 9 0
 I wanted Warner Bros to know exactly how much they suck and how butt hurt I am about the loss of Redbull TV coverage.
  • 11 1
 “State of the Sport”. I wasn’t aware the sport is only about racing.
  • 1 0
 It's also about freeride! Joking aside it plainly says this is to be paired with the professional state of the sport survey, which is clearly inspired by other surveys done in other sports with the same title.
  • 4 2
 @MillerReid Our State of the Sport project has always been about the more competitive side of the sport. We have run a Community Survey on broader topics before so maybe we can try and bring that back if people are interested.
  • 1 0
 @L0rdTom: my favorite part was how they defined success in freeride/dj as either comp results or pb deciding their edit is a "must watch." Lol
  • 8 1
 LOL it's still automatically signing you in with a gmail account... sure is anonymous!
  • 10 11
 The Google sign-in just allows you to leave the survey and come back with any answers saved. It's not required for the survey.
  • 13 4
 You gave an email to make your PB account. They already have it for Christ’s sake. Find a more interesting conspiracy theory.
  • 2 6
flag Snowytrail (Mar 8, 2024 at 19:03) (Below Threshold)
 I bailed out as soon as I saw that.
  • 6 2
 Man one thing this has proved is how much people on this website like to complain. You even gave them a whole new way to complain, arranged by topic and in as detail as they want.... and they still complained about that! I've completed the survey, I look forward to finding out what insight this offers. Enduro MTB do an interesting and in depth survey of their readership each year, although that always feels like it's biased towards feeding their advertisers data about their market, it is perhaps a broader look at a 'State of MTB' as a hobby, rather than just the competitive sport at an elite level. Perhaps PB could combine all of their user polls into this, as they often drill into some very specific issue, could be interesting to gather all that data up and look at the big picture of MTB as a whole once a year and see how various trends change over the years.
  • 8 1
 The state of pinkbike's media contracts
  • 3 0
 When it comes to wages, i think it's hard to generalise. If I would take a good living wage here in Switzerland as base line, it would be much higher than even in Germany, France or Italy. So it totally depends what a good wage is on you're circumstances. I guess that the baseline for a good wage for e.g. Camille Balanche and Monika Hrastnik are quite different due to the average cost of living in Switzerland and Slovenia. If you compare cost of living with numbeo (online tool) for Maribor (Slovenia) and Biel (Switzerland) the difference for the same standard of living is a staggering 3'600 Euros / month (2'900 Euro vs. 6'500 Euro). Would it be fair to put wages of riders on the same team based on the cost of living in their home country? No! I guess the appropriate thing would be to take a look at the average costs of living in the home country of all the staff and set the baseline accordingly.
Whe it comes ot individual sponsors it's a bit different.
In general, I think that riders should earn a marketing wage appropriate to the amount of work they expect from the brand sponsored riders, e.g. if they estimate that they will spend overall 20% of a work week (1 Day per week) doing things for e.g. their bike sponsor, they should earn a 20% marketing wage from their bike sponsor (which could be for example 12 x 7'000 CHF x 0.2 = 16'800 CHF / year by the bike sponsor, added together with parts and clothing sponsors they'll get a good wage).

Regarding racing and coverage: all i watched is the womens races that got shown on Swiss TV (Lenzerheide and Worlds) and skipped through the mens race because all in all it's just too long to watch all the other stuff that might interest me and the full races.
  • 2 0
 I thought the same. Even more so, in general income levels/ cost of living is wildly different between for example Europe and the US. There are of course big differences within Europe as well as within Northern America, but with a global sport it's rather impossible to give a number I'd think would be reasonable pay for some average racer. My answers reflect Finnish pay levels in general (and what idea I have of other athletes here) and they would probably be seen as ridiculously low for making a living anywhere in the US. It would actually be interesting to see the results on this grouped by location, since it was asked on the form.
  • 3 0
 These kinda survey's should be linked to peoples profiles and so we can see their answers, Then those are the users i can choose to ignore who have zero idea about racing/mtb.
  • 2 0
 "What level of importance should social media content have for riders to maintain their income? " This question is really vague. Are they asking how much time riders should need to devote to social media as part of their income-earning activities? Maybe ask the riders, not the consumers. FFS
  • 6 0
 Where is Friday fails!
  • 2 0
 It's on youtube.
  • 5 1
 Was going to answer it but it required my email . . . Don’t need anymore crap being flown my way. . .
  • 7 0
 Go to your account profile and get ready for a horrible surprise about the email information you already gave them.
  • 4 1
 It misses out the most important question. Who do you think is going to pay for this paradise of free to watch racing where all riders get paid a fortune
  • 1 0
 “ The new public survey will feature questions on race coverage, rider pay and other important questions about the sport's health and how you interact with racing in 2024.”
You know there is more to this sport than racing!
  • 3 0
 Why so many questions about mechanical doping? I'm not personally that in-the-know but is this a common issue in MTB?
  • 1 0
 It does happen.
  • 2 1
 The state of the racing is collapsing it seems. The state of the industry is definitely collapsing. The state of the industry listening to its customer collapsed. The state of people who want to ride is strong!
  • 4 0
 Wish it asked how much I don’t care about e-bikes
  • 1 0
 That would kill the ad revenue
  • 2 0
 Will be curious to see how upset people really are by Warner Bros and Rampage judging.
  • 4 2
 A screen shot of this survey should be added to Friday Fails. I would vote for it.
  • 2 1
 Frankly 15 pages of questions I quit at the 3rd one... I would has split it per months and give a good reward / lotery line a pinkbike?..
  • 2 0
 It’s a snapshot of right now. Things change a lot month to month.
  • 1 0
 Felt like I was being prepped for the in-person interview at Parallax Corp. Also, I don't think I was their target demographic.
  • 4 4
 All factory riders on the top 5 teams in all 3 disciplines should make a minimum salary of $75,000 and receive free healthcare up to 20 years post contract.
  • 7 5
 What bullshit is Outside up to with this?
  • 12 5
 Nothing to do with Outside. This was my idea to add a new perspective to State of the Sport.

Our rider survey will always be the main focus of this project, but with big changes happening to the sport I thought it may be interesting to get feedback from the public to compare/contrast with the data from racers.
  • 3 3
 @edspratt: people really like putting on the tinfoil hat for this one eh?
If you want to give your thoughts on the state of the (competitive/pro level) sport and its coverage fill out the survey. If you do the survey you’ll find there’s not much in there that Outside could wet their beak on. I don’t think outside magazine cares that I think pro dh racers are underpaid and that I think there should be more judges at Rampage lol.
  • 1 3
 @edspratt: Honestly, it is not a bad idea, but the survey seems to be overwhelmed with the traffic.

Also, all of us in the comments are a miserable and unforgiving lot.
  • 1 4
 @NERyder: Speak for yourself knucklehead!
  • 2 0
 This survey and the media coverage of bike racing are so far away from the things I love about PB. I guess different strokes for different folks.
  • 1 0
 @edspratt: Does the info get passed along to anyone who runs events? Not that I'd expect them to make any changes, but curious if anyone is listening or if it's just to gather public opinion.
  • 1 0
 @lklein10: it gets published in an article on a free to read website called Pinkbike.
  • 3 0
 @lklein10: The plan at the moment is to publish a full release of all the data once we have run some deep-dive articles. As part of our reporting, we will be sending out select pieces of data to organisations for them to provide comment and answer any questions we may have.
  • 1 0
 @edspratt: Looking forward to the corporate speak from WB/D while they defend the damage they're doing to the sport.
  • 1 0
 @commental: Ha! You think they'll reply? Silly, Billy...
  • 3 0
 @handynzl: You never know, maybe they'll find Chris Ball in whatever hole he's hiding in and make him do another AMA. LOL
  • 3 0
 @commental: Chris Ball reads survey "exciting feedback confirms the groundbraking work we are doing to elevate an immersive experience to the next level whilst supplying our stakeholders wih an exciting opportunity to supercharge the groundswell of support to a full 4 quadrant audience".
  • 1 0
 It is a 15-page survey, but at least the pages each load incredibly slow....
  • 2 5
 It was working fine an hour ago, but we are now getting a high number of responses which could be slowing the page down.
  • 2 1
 @edspratt: i got most the way through and it crashed. not worth the effort to try again.
  • 5 0
 PB doesn’t host Google Forms and can’t account for the fact that you’re borrowing your neighbor’s WiFi. Relax.
  • 2 0
 Riders or Racers @edspratt ?
  • 2 1
 Looks like a lot of you complaining forgot to drink your ivermectin this morning…
  • 10 10
 >> To fill out this form, you must be signed in. Your identity will remain anonymous.

sorry, but pass.
  • 32 4
 Are you worried they might find out you actually prefer digressive leverage ratios and blue flow? What privacy concerns could you possibly have?
  • 7 7
 It looks like there was an error it shouldn't require you to sign in, just enter an email address. All we see on our end is your answers.
  • 23 0
 @pisgahgnar: Maybe he wants internal headset routing and doesn't want his house SWAT-ed.
  • 7 0
 Pretty sure PB already has all our emails so who cares
  • 2 0
 @Gristle: emails, IP addresses, cookies, advertiser info. I avoid the first and last one with my temp email address and adblocker, other 2 are whatever
  • 4 2
 @pisgahgnar: not the point. They certainly count on this passive "f*ck me in the ass" attitude you're displaying here though, where they have folks giving them free info which they will in turn use to profit off those same folks.

It's a matter of ideals. Some folks care, others don't. Nothing wrong with either viewpoint. The underlying frustration and point you are missing with how easily these companies get their data while actively trying to monetize all aspects of life while certainly not giving any of us anything for free isn't really reflective of your condescending comment. And yes, there is, in fact, toms of data associated with these emails we use and companies should pay for it. Or at the very least, folks should not be so willing to give it away for free.
  • 5 2
 @MidwestMountains: You should probably just get off the internet, get rid of your phone and everything then. No one is going to pay you for your personal data lol. The value of your own personal data for marketing purposes is pennies.
  • 4 2
 @pisgahgnar: comment of the year.
  • 2 1
 @plyawn he says, from an email address linked account on the very same publication with a history of your posts and opinions that could be aggregated immediately.

Lots of American flags failing common sense here : /
  • 2 0
 There is no such thing as online privacy. We lost that many years ago. We are quickly losing outdoor privacy as well.I don't really care except when I'm trying to catch a spot.
  • 6 9
 Pinkbike still thinking racing is the only aspect of mtb. Racing is fucking dead. Hardline is the closest thing to racing I can watch. More freeride and people doing things different rather than 200 people riding the same course exactly the same way. The state of the sport is going the opposite way of all the industry enduro nerds claims from the past 5 years and it's dope.
  • 2 1
 If hardline is the future then racing really is dead. Small number of invited riders only with no way to earn a spot is a disaster
  • 1 0
 Enduro is dead to me
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 You lost me at "which Gender do you identify as" . Why are there more than two options??
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 Did the whole thing. I hope the survey makes a difference
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 ..
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 Complaining on a site you have to sign in to comment on about privacy of a not forced to take survey Is peak 2024


The state of pro racing is dying…. State of my local races. Sell outs the last three years.







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