I'm not really sure what Brendog is focused on. To me he's gotten really lucky with his fame and is riding it well. I do like him and got to meet him in NJ back in the day when he rode for iron horse.
PFP for one. Feel how you want about her, she wins in cyclocross, XC, and road. Yolanda in XC and a top contender in cross. Harriet Harnden, the girl just won an EWS, and can run top ten in XC as well. Yeah, these are all female examples, but why does that matter ? Mitch Ropelato has stood on the podium in pretty much any discipline he's competed. Same for Jill Kintner. Jack Moir, dude was a top level DH racer, and is killing it on the EWS this season. And...ahhh..Sam Hill ? Remember that guy ? Totally agree with your mention of Eddie Masters for sure. Now i'll give you that some of my examples might not all have been competing in all the mentioned disciplines at the same time, ( though some have ). I think the biggest difference between the guys you mentioned, the folks I mentioned, are that guys like Brenden, Kaos, and Kade, have a second discipline that is more " trick " focused, than " race " focused".
Yep. See ratboy as exhibit A.
Sam Hill obviously came to mind, but I did not mentioned him because of this...XC is not really on my radar, I didn't even know that the athletes you mentioned were doubling on cyclocross.
1000% and what I was hinting in my last sentence.
I can't watch him anymore, while I can appreciate the difficulty and work that goes into doing tricks with your bike it just doesn't resonate with me as much as DH. I do enjoy Danny MacAskill and Chris Akrigg's edit every now and then though, but they seem a little bit more refined and less 'juvenile' in nature...
only English people can say this, it is like you mentioning Red Bull and the mandolin at last weeks race (read with sarcasm)
Eh, I'm a linguistic mess, between my accent and the words I pick up from my British wife...now let me go back watch the race on the telly, for f**k sake!
yeah... that was frustrating.
Amen! Yes, damn but damn good!
Isn’t it always? I think it was ok for me. I’m also thinking Jackson is getting better on the race comment, Claudio was a little too much for me.
Spoiler without spoilers! Subtle! But yes, 100% phenomenal race! I also enjoyed the women’s.
My roku was acting up. Ree bull was fine I realize.
I beg to differ . I like the fact that Elliot is calm , and Rob is well.....Rob ...lol !! It's a good cop bad cop kind thing. While I like Claudio, sometimes when they both get yelling it's a bit much,and I find Elliot well spoken, and easy to understand. I also notice that Rob doesn't take jabs at Elliot or Tracy, like he does at Claudio, which to me, gets old after awhile. I think adding Elliot and Tracy was the way to go. Also like the girl they have at the finish line now. For me..they have it dialed with this team.
I get that as two rob warners would be overkill lol. But eliott desperately needs to speak up when doing the race commentary -- inliterally can't hear him sometimes. Tracy i also really like but again I think may be more of a track specialist and interviewer than 2nd race commentator. But its their first year and I'm sure they'll get better. Bart in XCO i think does the best job as the more monotone and measured balance to rob than Claudio and eliot thus far.
I like Bart as well for XCO. With a bit more experience under his belt I think Elliot will be a similar complement to Rob, like Bart is. He is a bit soft spoken, but I dont really have any problem hearing or understanding him during the telecasts.
