Hello Vital MTB Visitor,
We’re conducting a survey and would appreciate your input. Your answers will help Vital and the MTB industry better understand what riders like you want. Survey results will be used to recognize top brands. Make your voice heard!
Five lucky people will be selected at random to win a Vital MTB t-shirt.
Thanks in advance,
The Vital MTB Crew
For sure. I imagine Reserve having to change their policy after getting mountains of badly dented rims piling up haha.
Surely they are anodized?
Didn't know we had it that good over here. Rear boost 350 XD hub is 165 € (150 for the HG version!), front boost hub is 60 €. EX511 is 75 € a piece (with nipples of course) and if you can find DT Competition spokes in the correct length (it's a pain to get them lately...) they are ~60 € for the complete rolling set. So 435 € without building the wheels.
The pink side has a bunch of cool photos of the lugged proto pivot. Looks like I was right about it being custom molded carbon tubes (hence curved and shaped) in cnc al lugs.
Enhance..
Edit the URL to get the full res, and on this site, you'll need to click then right click > view image to see all that res
Listened to a bit of the Ride Along podcast and realized Team Robot was clearly trying to send us a hidden message in the photo!!!
The hands are a dead give away! One is clearly the NC State wolfpack gesture which is a similar species to a fox (aka Fox Factory). The other hand is in a rock-on gesture, so obviously Rockshox. Only “V” on his shirt is visible, which doesn’t mean anything, but when you combine it with the “DC” it forms “VDC” the abbreviation for voltage direct current which is the basis for any battery powered device, including…. suspension! Then, again, if you look at the hands they are perfectly at the same level which is too random to be a coincidence, until you connect the hands and find it forms a super mustache! Who in the bike industry has a super mustache???? GARY FISHER!!! Therefore Gray Fisher is developing electronic suspension to destroy Fox and Rockshox!!! Thanks Team Robot!
Blink twice if you are in trouble Robot!
Found some more. If you're looking Transition, i'll take one with RS suspension in order to shut up
Nice that they're offering alu and carbon options...
Looks good.
Maybe it's the MicrosoftPaint-esque superimposed scribbles, maybe it's the wild writing and conjecture: this reminds me of LitterMag, and I'm all nostalgic for it. #givemebackmyslideshows
Because someone asked, here is Wyns latest sm posting, allegedly with the new Sensor in:
https://fb.watch/iJ4muzyZGl/
Sr for not being able to embed the link.
I'm surprised PB gets anyones marketing cash considering how shit their backend has been for years now
-edit: campaign launched a few hours later...
Pretty sure that pic was included for you
don‘t know if it fits in tech rumors, but on jesse melamed‘s last IG story dimi tordo was also not on the strive, looked like a spectral. would be funny if he would also tackle the new season on the more balanced (geo-wise IMO) spectral instead of canyon‘s strive enduro bike.
Read the warranty rules again - if the rim does not hold air, it can be claimed as warranty - regardless if the paint is chipped or not.
Another shot of the new RS rear shock on the back of Moi Moi’s bike. Maybe not so secret anymore if he’s showing it in his own vids.
Here is another look at it
maybe they launch it in march together with the new boxxer. would make sense.
First Smuggler review is out. I'd guess T-minus an hour and half until Vital's goes live...
https://www.transitionbikes.com/Bikes_Smuggler.cfm
It's live boys! Frameset on order!
GX AXS and X01 AXS builds for the new Smuggler don't have images on Transition's website and are unavailable to order (though it says they'll ship in April). Looks like all of the test bikes were sent out with cabled X01 groups, though mechanical X01 isn't even a build option to buy.
Likely that these builds will feature the new GX and X01 AXS groups? Reinforcing the April release date?
peep Moirs brake levers on that screen grab, looks new but different finish from the others I've seen.
HAND SURGERY AND REHAB | Jack Moir | - YouTube @15 seconds
Was just prepping these images when I saw your post. Haha.
Clearly visible: New Codes, AXS shifter paddles, and Vivid Air shock.
coincidnce? new brakes.....and a broken hand?!
Notice the left-hand side AXS shifter with up and down paddles...wonder what's going on there
From https://www.pinkbike.com/news/inside-pivots-secret-carbon-fiber-r-and-d-facility.html
What a Pinkbike burn (in Jeff's review) :D
Flight attendant. The two button remote can be used to control the suspension. It's possible the new stuff will only come in two button option.
Yes, the obvious plan will be for the left remote to be suspension control and dropper post. Right remote shifting as always.