Love 'em or hate 'em, participate in them or simply indulge when they go awry, the comments section is an integral part of the Pinkbike experience. I mean, who hasn't signed in just to see the below threshold comments on a particularly contentious article? While sometimes the trolls and keyboard warriors get the upper hand in the land of anonymity, it really just makes it that much more rewarding when the comment section is full of positivity and praise.
Here are the 20 comments that got the most upvotes in the past decade. Note that we've omitted comments with more than 100 downvotes and chose not to include repeat top-commenters (looking at you @scottsecco).
Yeah only opened this article to see something from Waki ! Having only most upvoted posts is so lame, is PB run by politically correct Snowflakes ? Sad day ...
Waki for most downvoted comment for sure. When most people say something stupid, it'll get to -10 or something, then people ignore it as its hidden. If you see a Waki comment that's hidden due to negative score, you are definitely clicking and reading that thing.
@megatryn: All the hate driven by propping bots operated from Russian troll farms funded by Carbon rim makers, steel hardtail and long geo lobbyists. They don't want the world to know the truth. The bike you ride is alright! They want it all to be Short Travel Gravel! Only to sell you Downduros in 2024! Trail Country in 2028! Lies all lies! Loud noises!
You think you want that most downvoted column, believing the world is full of twats with simple shots in the dark.
But all of us old timers know full well we could go all "Ridemonkey Lounge Forum" on your asses and black out the whole screen in less than a paragraph.
As in November 21, 2017 the average user spent 00:33:01 on the site, Waki spent 19 Days, 2 Hours, 3 Minutes and 3 Seconds.
"He’s posted an astronomical 14,581 comments over the 8.5 years he has been a member. Let’s dive into this a bit more, shall we? To put it into perspective. RedBurn , who is in second place, has 5,827 comments and the average Pinkbike user has a lowly 17.5 comments, bless their heart."
And if you put Waki in check, he will PM you some goofy message full of rage and rather questionable insight to his life. I don't even bother comments because of him. My guess, he is in an institution somewhere on the library computer.
@oldschool43: keep in check, maybe I PMd you because P in PM stands for personal message and Persona beef should be kept there, you obviously failed to understand it back then and you still haven’t learned anything. You are swinging Old dogs sausage but think you have Wise Mans staff? Hum...
Do psychedelics people... it’s good for you. It makes you look for a trip sitter, someone you trust. Someone you love. Love that person. I have no idea why I am writing this
I am quitting Pinkbike again. Visit wokewithwaki.com and use promotion code "TROLL" to get 20% discount on my artwork prints, audiobooks, essential CBD oils, truffles, shroom growkits, DMT extraction kits, THC edibles. as well as portable bongs and buttplugs. Offer available as long as I am commenting.
@megatryn: If you feel like you need a steeper seat angle... take a hit from the bong! And use one of my pleasure saddles or vibrocore posts. Or both.
How's your take on Hafjell this year? open whole weeks during the summer. Neat aye? Maybe it will attract some pro shredders to cheer up Makken. I wonder if he stashes a bong next to the middle station lift or does he smoke on the lift?
Loving that Hafjell has taken to their senses again! Finally they are making sense again and they are pursuing development in the biking scene too. Hope to hang out with Niko Vink a bit more as well as he lives in town. They have re-hired my mate Knut Løkås as the daily manager for the bike park, which is a good sign. The lift is where it's at.
On the topic of buttplugs, do me a favour: Google "siswet"
@BenPea: from the journal: 6th of May 2020, somewhere in a cottage in French Alps - 16:00 Waki consumes 80 liberty caps and we go working on his downhill bike to put regular drivetrain on it. 16:30 he reports starting to feel the effects in the fingers, skin feels very soft, a slow come up of tranquility, his action become slow but precise. 16:45, even more tranquile, he reports colors starting to get more vivid, and perception of depth and form of objects gets enhanced. He is in wonder of the new reality he finds himself in. 17:15 first wave of euphoria, colors get very vivid and lines are getting jittery, everything seems wavy. Cannot put the 5 allen into the brake caliper bolt... he cannot stand straight, keeps stomping from one leg to another. he finds it extremely amusing. laughs a lot. I ask if he needs water, he thinks it would be great to fill the frame with water and drink from the bottom bracket. Giggles, everything seems funny and he comes up with very creative ways to laugh a lot. 17:30 - things get intense, and he says it starts to get overwhelming, He can no longer work on the bike, laughs histerically repeating out loud: fk I'm high, I'm so fkn high. He no longer works on the bike, walks around, looking in awe at the reflections in the tools. 17:45, I am getting worried about him, so I finally let him sit down. as the state deepens. He says his stomach is firing now. He alternates between saying I need to throw up and I need to poop. I provide rthe bucket but to my relief he does neither. He starts talking about you are what you eat. He shouts We are mushrooms. I am the mushroom! Give me water give me rain, let me grow! Immediately changes subject to his family. Says: mushrroms let me be abetter father! 18:00: He says he cannot control it, apologizes and lies on the floor. His eyes are wandering. He keeps going between I am high, it's fantastic! and I want to love my wife, I want to call my friend. Closes his eyes for a longer time to find relief but opens them terrified - colors and shapes changed to dark grey skulls! I need to think postiive! I am telling him about how great his bike is - he replies no! It takes me away from my loved ones! For what? Why? I am selfish - he cries. He gets paranoiac. I need ot raise his mood, distract im. Let's install the stem I say. He barely stands up pick up allen keys and looks at them, then talks to them. He says they are smiling to him but wone cries. He tries to make it happy, he caresses it. 18:15 He got stuck in a motion pattern, sitting on the floor, standing up talking to allen keys. He tells them about his love to the mountains. Still stuck in a motion but now holds oil bottles. keeps pouring the oil out finds it beatiful. Fox golden oil in particular. 18:30 - he says he is tired, lays on the ground again. Closes his eyes, says he can't rtake it but will focus on happy things. He kind of falls asleep. but talks all the time. The light he says. I am scared of meetign the bautiful light. A galaxy he says. The light behind the dust clouds. Then talks about light coming from a plant. i encourage him to go to the light. He says he ate the plant. Goes quiet. Talks to the light. Saying I see I see. Why now, why did I wait so long. cries a lot. But it's a happy crying. He moves his arms a lot. Repats. bautiful, we are bautfiul. 19:00 His words no longer make sense. He cannot build sentences anymore. Mumbles. Cries, laughs. Doesn't respond much to my questions. 20:00 He starts to make sense but repeats same sentence over and over. I want to make, I want to make room 20:45 he finally puts the sentence together I want to make room for love in my heart 21:30 he tries to stand up, he looks drained emotionally but looks very happy. Keeps repating the same sentence again. Apaologizes for being high. gets a bit angry, hits the bike saying it's all your faulty. Calms down after a moment. Cries again. I ell him to go back on the floor and close his eyes. 22:30 effects start to wear off, he doesn't speak much. Looks happy. I propose to go to bed. 22:45 Goes to pee and says he sees diamongs fallking of his penis into the toilet. I tell him to not try to catch them. 23:00 Lies in bed, says he is enjoying the visuals but light is behind the gas cloud again, behind the outer cell wall of plants 24:00 falls asleep.
@chrisjk: Hopefully I don't get banned for saying this out loud, but I wrote a routine to extract all of the little bits of interesting information from a PB article, then instructed my computer to run the routine over and over again on all 2019 articles. I put a 5-second delay in between each article (trying to be nice to the PB server), so it took about 6 hrs to collect the data. So, for the whole decade, we're talking 2-3 days worth of hitting the PB server, and I don't want to necessarily get on PB's bad side for doing so Still, it's tempting, but only if I do something interesting and share it with the community.
The data collected is stored a comma-separated list, like a spreadsheet. I then slurp it into an R session, where it becomes trivial to slide-and-dice, turn it sideways, and so forth. I do this kind of work for a living, in the life sciences. This is a fun distraction! And I'm probably breaking some PB policies for doing it, but I'm not trying to monetize or do anything evil. Everyone wants to know more about @WAKIdesigns !
@deadflat: Eh they say that your first and last name is never shared as well but if you type @ here in the comments and someone has filled in those fields it will still pop up that user's name. They've got a lot of shit to fix before banning people for scrapping public data.
@deadflat: Thanks for the great explanation, that is fascinating. I assume that this was roughly the same process that Eliot Jackson used when he collected his data in the above linked article? Can the same thing be done to any website or is PB an anomaly?
@NorCalNomad: Fair enough, but reading through the site's terms of use, under Acceptance: "C. You shall not: ... (vi) harvest or scrape any Content from Pinkbike;". I don't get why that shit is still broken, they have lots of money and plenty of peeps on staff. I imagine they are working on an entirely new site/layout... and probably break new stuff too
@chrisjk: I didn't even see that, thanks for pointing it out! Yeah, same process and yes, you can do it to any site that has a common structure to how the information is laid out. Some places will provide access to the data via an API, so you can get it programmatically and "legally". When no API (or data dumps) are available, then web scraping is kind of it. It's sloppy, inefficient, but works. It's hard to protect from being scraped, b/c that's exactly what search engines do, and it's easy to spoof a scraper as a popular search engine bot that's doing the exact same thing, for the purpose of search engine indexing.
@WAKIdesigns those last comments from you ffs, I would kill for a couple of pints with you dude, if you happen to be in Dublin, drop me a line, pints on me \m/ @deadflat I actually thought you were the author of the article I linked when you shared that answer of 2019 Waki's comments, I'm myself a DBA (MS SQL Server, Postgre & mySQL) so I deal with huge amount of data daily, but more from the OPS side than data processing & analysis
@onemanarmy: on my computer. @elyari : kudos on being a DBA / I know enough DB administration to get myself into trouble, am way more on the processing/analysis side of things Small world!
Reading this feel like I should update people on Frank’s progress (comment 6), he’s now completed treatment and has been in remission for about a year, he has started school and is in good health...hopefully it will stay that way!
Have to say I didn’t get a lot of time on the bike when he was in treatment, but when I did it was the one thing that allowed me to forget everything for a few minutes...hurtling down hills on bikes is excellent meditation, if your mind wanders from the task in hand you will eat dirt. All the best to everyone on PB (including WAKI...despite me riding a steel hard tail with 160mm fork).
@chillescarpe: cheers, all the treatment hasn’t dented his confidence, which is a relief. Just need to get him off his scooter on a bike...work in progress.
I still remember your post.. it hounded me for days. I cried. More than few times. I'm a father (no, scratch that), I'm a dad of 3 small kids. Often bitching about not being able to ride. Because kids. And then I received from you that reality check. Fellow rider is going through the worst of all nightmares and I'm unhappy because i get to spend my days with 3 perfectly healthy kids.. It humbled me a lot
@crag79: Thank you so much for sharing that Frank the Tank is doing better!! My daughter has NF1 and and age 2 we were also doing chemo for tumors in each of her eyes and that was the hardest thing to go through. I am just glad that she was young enough to not remember any of it. I wish you and Frank the best for many many year to come!!
@crag79: I guess I should have added in that she is now 10 and has been doing great for quite a few years now but with NF1 there is always a chance that tumors could come back but we are blessed to have her healthy nonetheless. Thank you for your kindness.
That is great news! Positive vibes for continued health for the little one. Stay strong dad. Having a young kid myself, I cant imagine how tough that is.
You, Sir, made me cry 2 times...first time 2yrs ago I was devastated with what can happen to 2 year old kid (being a father of 2) and today for the second time, so happy reading your update. All the best for you and your whole family
crag79 I don't hate Long travel hardtails and defo not people who have them. I hate a rather popular idea that one should have one in order to be a better rider or tht using one friwillingly instead of a FS is a path to enlightement,
which is a pile of bollocks and trying to get cheap credit for volountary handicap. Many people use them for practical reasons or just to have a wacky fun thing to ride. Like I do...
all the best to you and your family!
@WAKIdesigns: Cheers WAKI, sorry about comment, wasn’t any malice in it. I ride a hard tail for practical reasons, as you mentioned, and financial (although I still consider myself fortunate to have the bike I have). All the best.
@crag79: I fully understand financial issues. I know where I came from. I also know how it is to not have time to fix the bike or get parts for it even if you have the time.
If I was an engineer and I came up with a new tubing material, even if it was a new aluminum alloy, I'd probably name it "Nuckingfossum", as in "Steel is real, but..."
Pinkbike comments are unreal. I commented how I was sick of commentators miscalling cashrolls in slope comps and Cam McCaul called me out on the crankworx live feed.
Article: Tragic News - Stevie Smith Passes Away Hwulex's comment still makes me well up big time. To this day feels like losing a family member. Love you Stevie
The best thing about this comment is that RB and the UCI actually made it happen, and that it really was as emotional as the original comment managed to depict.
I was there at Fort Williams when they did this. I think it was the best send off anyone could ever wish for.
It was an amazing moment, that will stick with me forever, 10000 people cheering to the memory of such a great rider, lost far too soon.
Knowing where the idea came from, the hoops that had to be jumped to make it happen and the near flawless execution of it just made it perfect. No fanfare, just racing before and racing after. Last rider before finished their run to a full-on race atmosphere, a 10 second announcement then straight into the ghost run. 100% silence and respect from everyone on the hill. Crowd goes nuts as the ghost run enters the motorway. Huge explosion as it crosses the finish line. Ghost run finishes. 10 seconds later racing resumes and the full-on race atmosphere instantly returns. No wallowing or sorrow, just pure passion and respect for a rider and their chosen path. Proper once in a lifetime moment. The TV feed doesn't come close to doing it justice.
@Hwulex you helped put in motion a series of events that turned a very sad situation into a very positive one.
Who are the three people that down voted the Spengle wheel comment that is pure gold! I am just glad I was on the can when I read it...I peed a little extra that time.
All so sincere, but then this is the golden globes of comments whereas the best of the decade for me have all been more indie comments, witticisms and in-jokes.
I'm guessing this will be one of the least viewed articles of 2020 on Pinkbike. In other news, Glory and Gambler are dropping Giant and Scott to join the Trek team.
I have to say I'm disappointed in my performance for not making the top 20 but it's too late to part ways with my current keyboard sponsor so don't expect any better in 2020.
@southoftheborder: I will never forget his comment under news about Bruni's injury where he called out the suspension design of demo is simply dangereous and someday someone is gonna die because of it and then somebody pointed out he was riding enduro...
Control + F'ed just to see if someone mentioned JortLord. PB should have a "most down voted" comments, because people also need to know how terrible they are. Jortlord, you are terrible.
@brianpark: and double digit down votes on the positive comments on the 2 memoriams, do we have that many people on here with bad finger control.....oh wait that's why we always have plenty of Friday Fails to watch!
@jb2mntbike: Ya, on mobile, it is quite easy to accidentally downvote. Been there, downvoted stuff I didn't mean too ;-) But hopefully not guilty on any of the subject comments.
@bman33: not a chance. I haven't even tried. I've had downvotes, but I've actually been what I deam as polite on here. If I went Ridemonkey Bizutch on them, I'd crack it sure.
i was hoping to see that comment about the wild party following the EWC and something about richie rude's abnormlly large nipples...that was pure PB comment gold right there. who was that guy?
What is it with the downvotes on some of those posts? You have got to be a giant piece of anatomy to downvote Scott's comments about Stevie's life and passing or Crag79's comments about his cancer stricken son.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that one of the comments on the Richard Cunningham retirement article will (deservedly) be one of the most upvoted articles of 2020-2030 (if we live that long).
So many of these top comments are directed at how sh***y Red Bull is. It’s hilarious...
Can we get one of those Pinkbike Polls to see how many mountain bikers actually drink that poisonous trash?
(argue all you want that Red Bull is good for the sport and that it wouldn’t be where it is without them but that’s just rationalizing the crappy way they treat all their atheletes)
The best comment section ever was under first presentation of ARBR - I was initially sorry for them but then... I was just crying laughing, my stomach would cramp and my wife was looking at me holding my phone and laughing, telling me to get a life. "This bike fell from ugly mountain and cased each jump on the way down". It was glorious. One gem after another.
@lognar: Sorry for the late response. Guess you don't understand sarcasm. Relax a little. Don't read comments to be a jerk. Oh wait, sorry, you are the most important person on the internet and everyone looks to you for guidance. Forget everything I just said, I was wrong.
Ha ebike hate is strong on pinkbike, many morons can't differentiate between peddle assist and motorbike, such ridiculous comments.
Totally agree on the womens DH, think the competition has often been better than the men's which you can't say about many sports.
@pinhead907: I guess by your logic a go kart is the same as a car huh? 4 wheels, motor... totally same thing. In fact why do we have squares and rectangles when they both have 4 sides? Dude you have a great point, it's all the same. Motor, 2 wheels, same thing! Go test ride a pedal assist motorbike (ebike) and try to overtake some cars then come back to me.
@supermike306: I guess you put more than a couple words into my mouth, there. All I'm sayin' is if it has a motor, and it's a bike....? It's not a motorbike?
@pinhead907: If it has a motor and it's a bike. It's a bike with a motor. Could be a motorbike, moped, ebike... If people hate ebikes who cares, if they don't want them on mtb website and want to keep it purist then fine. But an ebike ain't a motorbike that's for sure.
Funny. Back on November i had a comment with over 1300 upvotes about lowering the amount of acceptable testosterone levels in trans athletes.. Wonder why it didn't make the list???????
Super easy-lazy exercice from PinkBike to show that, as it`s quantitative and not qualitative / based on the numbers of upvotes and not the quality of the comments. It`s so easy to make statistics, making intellectual efforts is another task. It just looks messy and meaningless at the end, often highlighting hollow comments. Special mention though to the Spengle's 3-Spoke Carbon Wheels comment which is hilarous.
Waki would rule that list!
But all of us old timers know full well we could go all "Ridemonkey Lounge Forum" on your asses and black out the whole screen in less than a paragraph.
Waki is the Carlos Mencia of the comment section
As in November 21, 2017 the average user spent 00:33:01 on the site, Waki spent 19 Days, 2 Hours, 3 Minutes and 3 Seconds.
"He’s posted an astronomical 14,581 comments over the 8.5 years he has been a member. Let’s dive into this a bit more, shall we? To put it into perspective. RedBurn , who is in second place, has 5,827 comments and the average Pinkbike user has a lowly 17.5 comments, bless their heart."
Do psychedelics people... it’s good for you. It makes you look for a trip sitter, someone you trust. Someone you love. Love that person. I have no idea why I am writing this
Runner-up for upvotes was @brianpark (11,847) and for downvotes was @thesharkman (5,403).
...But you're about to pass the upvotes of last decade's 20th spot!
"feels great, baby"
(This comment is an add). www.100percent.com)@AyJayDoubleyou:
How's your take on Hafjell this year? open whole weeks during the summer. Neat aye? Maybe it will attract some pro shredders to cheer up Makken. I wonder if he stashes a bong next to the middle station lift or does he smoke on the lift?
Loving that Hafjell has taken to their senses again! Finally they are making sense again and they are pursuing development in the biking scene too. Hope to hang out with Niko Vink a bit more as well as he lives in town. They have re-hired my mate Knut Løkås as the daily manager for the bike park, which is a good sign. The lift is where it's at.
On the topic of buttplugs, do me a favour: Google "siswet"
16:00 Waki consumes 80 liberty caps and we go working on his downhill bike to put regular drivetrain on it.
16:30 he reports starting to feel the effects in the fingers, skin feels very soft, a slow come up of tranquility, his action become slow but precise.
16:45, even more tranquile, he reports colors starting to get more vivid, and perception of depth and form of objects gets enhanced. He is in wonder of the new reality he finds himself in.
17:15 first wave of euphoria, colors get very vivid and lines are getting jittery, everything seems wavy. Cannot put the 5 allen into the brake caliper bolt... he cannot stand straight, keeps stomping from one leg to another. he finds it extremely amusing. laughs a lot. I ask if he needs water, he thinks it would be great to fill the frame with water and drink from the bottom bracket. Giggles, everything seems funny and he comes up with very creative ways to laugh a lot.
17:30 - things get intense, and he says it starts to get overwhelming, He can no longer work on the bike, laughs histerically repeating out loud: fk I'm high, I'm so fkn high. He no longer works on the bike, walks around, looking in awe at the reflections in the tools.
17:45, I am getting worried about him, so I finally let him sit down. as the state deepens. He says his stomach is firing now. He alternates between saying I need to throw up and I need to poop. I provide rthe bucket but to my relief he does neither. He starts talking about you are what you eat. He shouts We are mushrooms. I am the mushroom! Give me water give me rain, let me grow! Immediately changes subject to his family. Says: mushrroms let me be abetter father!
18:00: He says he cannot control it, apologizes and lies on the floor. His eyes are wandering. He keeps going between I am high, it's fantastic! and I want to love my wife, I want to call my friend. Closes his eyes for a longer time to find relief but opens them terrified - colors and shapes changed to dark grey skulls! I need to think postiive! I am telling him about how great his bike is - he replies no! It takes me away from my loved ones! For what? Why? I am selfish - he cries. He gets paranoiac. I need ot raise his mood, distract im. Let's install the stem I say. He barely stands up pick up allen keys and looks at them, then talks to them. He says they are smiling to him but wone cries. He tries to make it happy, he caresses it.
18:15 He got stuck in a motion pattern, sitting on the floor, standing up talking to allen keys. He tells them about his love to the mountains. Still stuck in a motion but now holds oil bottles. keeps pouring the oil out finds it beatiful. Fox golden oil in particular.
18:30 - he says he is tired, lays on the ground again. Closes his eyes, says he can't rtake it but will focus on happy things. He kind of falls asleep. but talks all the time. The light he says. I am scared of meetign the bautiful light. A galaxy he says. The light behind the dust clouds. Then talks about light coming from a plant. i encourage him to go to the light. He says he ate the plant. Goes quiet. Talks to the light. Saying I see I see. Why now, why did I wait so long. cries a lot. But it's a happy crying. He moves his arms a lot. Repats. bautiful, we are bautfiul.
19:00 His words no longer make sense. He cannot build sentences anymore. Mumbles. Cries, laughs. Doesn't respond much to my questions.
20:00 He starts to make sense but repeats same sentence over and over. I want to make, I want to make room
20:45 he finally puts the sentence together I want to make room for love in my heart
21:30 he tries to stand up, he looks drained emotionally but looks very happy. Keeps repating the same sentence again. Apaologizes for being high. gets a bit angry, hits the bike saying it's all your faulty. Calms down after a moment. Cries again. I ell him to go back on the floor and close his eyes.
22:30 effects start to wear off, he doesn't speak much. Looks happy. I propose to go to bed.
22:45 Goes to pee and says he sees diamongs fallking of his penis into the toilet. I tell him to not try to catch them.
23:00 Lies in bed, says he is enjoying the visuals but light is behind the gas cloud again, behind the outer cell wall of plants
24:00 falls asleep.
BTW you ain't falling asleep anywhere near midnight...
The data collected is stored a comma-separated list, like a spreadsheet. I then slurp it into an R session, where it becomes trivial to slide-and-dice, turn it sideways, and so forth. I do this kind of work for a living, in the life sciences. This is a fun distraction! And I'm probably breaking some PB policies for doing it, but I'm not trying to monetize or do anything evil. Everyone wants to know more about @WAKIdesigns !
@deadflat I actually thought you were the author of the article I linked when you shared that answer of 2019 Waki's comments, I'm myself a DBA (MS SQL Server, Postgre & mySQL) so I deal with huge amount of data daily, but more from the OPS side than data processing & analysis
Have to say I didn’t get a lot of time on the bike when he was in treatment, but when I did it was the one thing that allowed me to forget everything for a few minutes...hurtling down hills on bikes is excellent meditation, if your mind wanders from the task in hand you will eat dirt. All the best to everyone on PB (including WAKI...despite me riding a steel hard tail with 160mm fork).
I'm a father (no, scratch that), I'm a dad of 3 small kids. Often bitching about not being able to ride. Because kids.
And then I received from you that reality check. Fellow rider is going through the worst of all nightmares and I'm unhappy because i get to spend my days with 3 perfectly healthy kids..
It humbled me a lot
PB community let's upvote this comment from crag79. In 10 years we will have even more good news about Franck.
F*ck Cancer!
"in prison?"
Still my fav. The first reply to the top comment is peak PB commenting
www.pinkbike.com/u/davidarthur/blog/20-bikes-from-core-bike-show-2018.html
If I was an engineer and I came up with a new tubing material, even if it was a new aluminum alloy, I'd probably name it "Nuckingfossum", as in "Steel is real, but..."
It's a life well lived.
www.instagram.com/p/BkbvG98lEVA/?igshid=17rrmbq4hzlsb
Congratulations! I remember that! You lucky SOB - the rest of your life will be a desperate, futile attempt to reach those heights again!!
Maybe one day I'll get called out at every crankworx? A guy can dream.
#larkey1forcrankworx
Hwulex's comment still makes me well up big time. To this day feels like losing a family member.
Love you Stevie
Knowing where the idea came from, the hoops that had to be jumped to make it happen and the near flawless execution of it just made it perfect. No fanfare, just racing before and racing after. Last rider before finished their run to a full-on race atmosphere, a 10 second announcement then straight into the ghost run. 100% silence and respect from everyone on the hill. Crowd goes nuts as the ghost run enters the motorway. Huge explosion as it crosses the finish line. Ghost run finishes. 10 seconds later racing resumes and the full-on race atmosphere instantly returns. No wallowing or sorrow, just pure passion and respect for a rider and their chosen path. Proper once in a lifetime moment. The TV feed doesn't come close to doing it justice.
@Hwulex you helped put in motion a series of events that turned a very sad situation into a very positive one.
Next year, everyone should create a bunch of profiles to increase their chances of winning since the real problem is being avoided.
Second place for new mtb denim shorts (jorts?)
Or what about this guy at the top: www.pinkbike.com/photo/9873407/#cid9597773
Sleeping on em
It's nice to see all these great comments come out on top
"Sam Hill's career is going downhill fast"
So simple and ingenious.
Can we get one of those Pinkbike Polls to see how many mountain bikers actually drink that poisonous trash?
(argue all you want that Red Bull is good for the sport and that it wouldn’t be where it is without them but that’s just rationalizing the crappy way they treat all their atheletes)
"a period of ten years:
the three decades from 1776 to 1806.
a period of ten years beginning with a year whose last digit is zero:
the decade of the 1980s"
Special mention though to the Spengle's 3-Spoke Carbon Wheels comment which is hilarous.