I love how Danny refers to "us" winning and in posts he thanks his team properly. A legend does not have to play at having no support. I respect the personal character as much as his stellar riding style. Impressive.
Danny might not win every race but he is the riders rider and massively consistent. He takes the difficult technical lines other top riders shy away from and he’d be the last person still riding his bike if all the fame/money left DH. He is so egoless anybody (even your gran on her shopping trolley bike) could feel they could go up to him and chat bikes to him and he’d respond in kind. Good luck this season Danny Boy 🤟
What a great video, Steve is an excellent interviewer, he knows the tech and he gets Danny to open up. I could watch these sort of vids with any MTB discipline. Do Nino next!
@@Yoda-em5mt Yes I think most people can convert inches to mm. That said, 50/0.25=200 not 2000. If you want 50” in mm it’s 50/0.03937 or 50x25.4 both will roughly equal 1270mm. I guess even an old Jedi can get confused.
I believe they did. Danny's dad was pretty vocal about the problems, but didn't actually go into detail. The response from Saracen when the contract ended had quite a bitter monotone to it as well.
Amazing interview - and an amazing guy, best of luck in future races! Also - for me watching from little Latvia, amazing to see brands that I can afford, maybe not at the top level - on my own bikes - being 40, tomorrow I'm expecting delivery at last of my first "world class" front fork for my HT - 2021 SID Ultimate SL - can't wait. Keep up the ride!
That glory was gorgeous. I have the same colorway with my Faith 0 2010. You can actually setup older bikes mullet 29 27, or 27 and 26. Use anglesets. i got my faith into a mullet 29 and 27 with a 63 degree head angle. Some bikes you may need custom dropouts though for clearance issues.
why wheelbase in inches when everything else is in CM/MM? it's pretty inconvenient could just not talk about the numbers and had a slide in part with measurements somewhere on the screen
the newer bigger bikes are great for being stable in racing but i still prefer the older 26 bikes for slope style/ hitting jumps they feel like a dirt jumper but with 200mm travel shocks great to wipe around
It's funny to see the similarities between Downhill and F1. I mean how people are talking about the earlier eras with the smaller bikes being much more entertaining to watch than nowdays with the almost overcapable bikes. Somewhat the same in F1. When Alonso did a showrun a few years ago in Abu Dhabi with an older and much smaller F1 people where shocked about the direction change of the thing compared to the much bigger, longer and more stable current F1 cars.
Love the bike design ru-vid.comUgkxHL1v1R3NE5x4KiYfyt8dnQmyNYz7qi5L and functionality. It is hard to align the front tired to center the disk brakes. The brake wheel touches the stationery side of the brake caliper and pad. I aired the tire up to 40 psi as the markings say 40-60psi. Left the house for a few hours and came back to an exploded innertube.All in all it seems to be a good bike. Have not ridden it yet though so that's the max of my knowledge. Update, put a new innertube made sure the tire was set properly and it did the same thing in under 20 minutes as second pic shows.
BB height, chainstays and wheelbase(*) are actually pretty interesting numbers, but who on earth cares for the downtube length? The headtube angle, reach and stack would be way more interesting! And of course which framesize it actually is! Seattube angle is obviously not that important on a DH bike. (*): but why on earth use inches for the wheelbase, when you can use mm instead? His explanation is weak, because the wheels aren’t really measured in inches. In fact they don’t even measure 26“;27,5“ and 29“. These „measurements“ don’t stand for the real diameter of the wheel, it’s just a convenience for naming them. I know it’s stupid, but somebody decided it would be great to throw around vaguely guessed inch sizes, which end up being different from what they in fact measure. Calling 27,5“ 650b was a great approach, but the mtb industry sadly preferred the dumb random inch numbers, which is all you nowadays hear.
We picked Steve Jones for this because of his mountain bike history. Steve is one of the longest-serving and most knowledgeable people within the entire mountain bike industry, especially when it comes to DH racing. Think he was just excited to catch up with Danny and see these bikes 😂
@@wenlambotomy6231 I’m so sorry for your loss and weird things happened. But yes God does things for a reason and once again I’m so very sorry because that should never happen to anyone may God bless you.
