its been touched on a little bit in the comments, but I think part of the problem is the previous generation of Moms. They grew up as unequal to men. Certainly it is better than in the past and women are breaking through barriers. However, some of those "ideals" are still there. Every generation those ideals fade away. My daughter is very girly. As in she will wear a dress 6 out of 7 days a week. She loves princesses. She loves to have her nails painted (I'm the one who paints them btw). Where did she learn to enjoy those kind of things? Her mom, grandma, my mom, other moms. That's what they grew up playing with and they want to share that with their daughters. Nothing wrong with that. As a father, i'm doing my part to bring balance. my daughter finished her 3rd year of skiing this year. I wanted her on the snow at an early age so it became something that was part of her life and also as a way for the two of us to spend time together. When she's older, I don't want her to think that its just the boys that ski. Everyone does it. One of the times she fell while skiing and I laughed. Not at her, mind you, with her. I would laugh at any of my friends whenever they crashed. Provided they were not injured. She was actually upset with this. So I explained to her that its ok to crash and fall. and its ok to laugh with your friends about it too. as long as they're not injured. So, later, when she asked me to go off some big jump, i asked her what she'll do if I crash. Her response,"laugh, but not if you're hurt" Gave her knuckles and hit the jump. Basically, treat her like one of the boys. btw, in case anyone tries to take this wrong, men are still mostly to blame. :) -joel

i would've called it big mountain terrain double. The other thing is that likely there was no machine making the jumps and also only the kicker materials were all dug out there.

Congrats on the new sponsor! The reason I enjoy watching these videos is because they work as a crew. Its a lot of fun to ride with your friends and their videos always remind me of that. Its like the old skate videos (Bones Brigade anyone?). Riding with you crew for maximum good times.

This is fantastic. Thanks for the tutorial. Would this work for triggering video? Say I want to take some self vids. The way I would do it now is to start the video on the camera, run up to my starting point, ride through where the video is taken, run to camera stop video. So I'd have all this wasted video taking up space on the card as well as killing the camera battery. This would be a super cool tool to use for both still and video. -joel

anyone have a link to videos that shows how the rear suspension moves? i've never seen it. it looks like a single pivot to me, but I'm sure there's more to it.

the Wayne Goss/Eric Hillen segment was awesome sauce! watched it 3 times and I haven't even finished the movie yet. had to stop just to comment. and how do I download this so I can watch on my TV or on my phone?

The thing I didn't like about this contest was that it was heads up. So in the initial round there were two photos against each other that I didn't like, but I had to promote one of them (for lack of a better word). On the flipside, there were two photos i really liked and I had to chose against one of them. Both of them I would've picked over the aforementioned pair. shrug. that's how the contest was created so no arguing. BUT, if i were making up the rules (which i didn't :) ) I would said, here's 32 photos, pick 16 that you like. Out of the top 16 vote getters, choose 8, then 4, then 2, then 1. I think the heads up format didn't allow me to pick the photos that I thought were the best of the year. In the end, the final two were both in my top 16 from the initial round. :)

What's the green thing on your bar?

i find it interesting that bike has room for a water bottle. I feel like i've never seen that on an AM bike. not that i've seen every mtb out there, it just surprised me. :)