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Originally Posted by benb
No the Belgian media has it right, there's nothing PRO about changing to a drastically new setup 1 week before the world championships.
If there was a weird thing with his combo they wouldn't have necessarily had a chance to figure it out in a week, and if there was some change in how he needed to ride/shift he wouldn't have had time to necessarily get that to the point where it was automatic.
A lot of this stuff is not really about SRAM quality.. it's about trying too may new things/combinations at the same time when your paycheck depends on the equipment just "disappearing".
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exactly my point. he defended the sponsor (actually sponsors; again, he changed frames too), because him and his team made the change, even though it wasn't the best time to do it. and while that decision wasn't exactly pro, defending the sponsors and taking the blame yourself is.
that doesn't 100% relate to Aqua Sport of course, given they're several months into racing their setups and still having issues. but the point is you gain little as a team or a professional by sh*tting all over your sponsors.