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Photo of the Day

Kate Courtney, dialed in, laser-focused, and carving lines like she’s etching her name into the red rock.

Sedona just met its match.

📷 Paris Gore behind the lens.

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Video of the Day

Forget travel brochures.

Brice just served up rounds of Aspen-Snowmass that will make your trail map look like a ransom note.

The scenery is ridiculous, the dirt is criminal, and the man’s commitment to advocacy is a felony in at least three states.

⏰ Watch time - 10 min 29 sec

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Bonus:  Behind the scenes usually means boring gear talk and polite nods.

Not here.

This is duct-taped bikes, duct-taped humans, and duct-taped sanity holding together while the cameras keep rolling.

If you thought the final cut was wild, wait until you see this.

⏰ Watch time - 31 min 04 sec

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‍Send of the Day

It’s a parallel send-off!!

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Who Won What

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Air DH - Crankworx Whistler 2025 - Elite Women

1. Jenna Hastings (NZL) — 4:43.461
2. Taylor Ostgaard (USA) — +4.286
3. Amy Morrison (USA) — +4.315
4. Georgia Astle (CAN) — +5.799
5. Emily Wright (NZL) — +5.973
6. Julia Lofqvist Traum (USA) — +7.784
7. Caroline Buchanan (AUS) — +10.079
8. Jordy Scott (USA) — +12.815
9. Sophie Allen (USA) — +14.877
10. Kirsten Van Horne (CAN) — +15.082

Air DH - Crankworx Whistler 2025 - Elite Men

1. Richie Rude (USA) – 4:15.719
2. Tyler Waite (NZL) – +2.790
3. Dane Jewett (CAN) – +3.098
4. Tegan Cruz (CAN) – +3.642
5. Jackson Frew (AUS) – +4.725
6. Michael Delesalle (CAN) – +7.189
7. Jon Mozell (CAN) – +7.211
8. Ryan Griffith (CAN) – +7.612
9. Cody Kelley (USA) – +7.679
10. Jake Polito (CAN) – +9.132

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Who Invented the Dropper Post? (Hint: He Had a Moustache and a Spring)

Let’s just get this out of the way: the dropper post is the single most important thing to happen to mountain biking since the wheel.

And no, we’re not exaggerating.

Without it, we’d still be clumsily trying to ride technical descents with our saddles tickling our spines or worse… getting off to manually adjust our seat height like medieval peasants.

Whoever invented the dropper post?

The Year Was 1984, and Mountain Bikes Were Basically Road Bikes on Steroids

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Joe Breeze, MTB’s resident mad scientist, and his buddy Josh Angell were out here riding fully rigid bikes with canti brakes, zero suspension, and enough denim to chafe through a saddle.

Somewhere between blowing up their quads on climbs and absolutely yeeting themselves over rocky descents, they decided: “You know what would be sick? Not riding with our seat punching us in the ass every time gravity happens.”

Enter: The Hite-Rite.

A spring, a quick-release, and a tagline "Descend with conviction" that basically said “send it, coward.”

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How It Worked: Seat Goes Up. Seat Goes Down. Magic.

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You clamp a coiled steel spring between your frame and seatpost.

Loosen the quick release?

Boing, the seat shoots up like a caffeinated pogo stick.

Push it down for descents, lock it in, and boom, you’ve just hacked the 1980s.

It came in three sizes:

• Race: 1.5" travel — for people who thought weight weenies were a personality type.
• Standard: 2.5" — for normal humans.
• Extra-Long: 4.5" — for people who liked living dangerously before dropper posts had warranties.

Weight penalty? A whopping 3–5 ounces.

So light even your lycra-clad XC uncle couldn’t complain.

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It Took Over Racing, Until It Didn’t

By the mid-to-late ’80s, pro XC racers were using them like they were UCI-mandated.

Breeze claims he sold a quarter million before 1990.

That’s a lot of springs.

Then the race promoters got “clever.”

They shortened courses so spectators could see more crashes, and suddenly riders didn’t have time to raise or lower their seats mid-lap.

Without the pros repping it, the Hite-Rite went from must-have to garage fossil.

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The Collector’s Comeback

Fast-forward to now.

Joe Breeze still has a stash of original Hite-Rites in packaging, and his son is flipping them on eBay for $48 a pop.

That’s more than double the original $19.95, but still less than you’ll spend on a round of beers at Whistler.

Hite-Rite Saddle Dropper: Joe Murray, Mountain Biking History! World's 1st Dropper Post

Why It Still Matters

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Fast-forward a couple of decades and droppers have gone full superhero mode, longer travel, smoother actuation, and the kind of durability that makes you wonder why you ever messed with a quick-release clamp.

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Today’s mountain bikers don’t just use droppers to “get the seat out of the way.”

They’re slamming them for steeper descents, raising them mid-sprint, and hitting that perfect in-between height for tech climbs where your legs and lungs are bargaining for mercy.

They’ve gone from a luxury to an unspoken rule: show up to a trail ride without a dropper, and you’ll get the same look as someone pedaling clipless in jean shorts.

Every Reverb, Transfer, OneUp, and BikeYoke owes its existence to a spring-and-quick-release contraption cooked up in the Reagan era.

The Hite-Rite gave mountain bikers the first taste of that intoxicating “slam it and shred” freedom we now take for granted.

So next time you hit that lever to drop your seat, remember: you’re riding on the shoulders of moustachioed giants.

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Dream Rides ❤️

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Perfect geometry, flawless components, and a paint job that could make a grown rider cry.

If you crash it, you’d better have a really good story.

We wanna see your bike in The Send It Daily? Shoot us an email at editorial@thesenditdaily.com, and maybe your ride will be the next superstar.

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Trail of the Day

Bennett Gap Trail Multi Trail - Brevard, North Carolina

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Welcome to the ridgetop runway where every view is a postcard and every wrong move is a freefall.

Looking Glass Rock, Cedar Rock, and the Davidson River valley all line up like they’re posing for your GoPro.

The advocacy crew fought to keep this trail open year-round, so the least you can do is ride it like you mean it.

Technical sections keep you honest, especially where Perry Cove Tr. shows up with drop-offs that’ll make your kneecaps sweat.

Ride it downhill and you’ll find out how fast your brakes can scream.

Ride it uphill and you’ll find out how fast you can bargain with your legs.

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That’s all for today folks. We hope everyone gets some saddle time out there. See you all tomorrow! 🤙

‍For the ❤️ of two wheels.

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