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„… the main Pivot guy“
I see what you did there
It’s basically like we speculated. Chris states galvanic corrosion as the suspected reason for the failure. He thinks that the surface treatment of the alloy lugs, prior to bonding, failed and as a result the adhesive didn’t create as firm of a bond. Bonding aluminum to plastic successfully and permanently is always quite difficult. I wonder why they didn’t stick to alloy tubes and went with carbon in the first place. The minor weight savings are totally negligible for a DH bike IMO.
I think they make carbon tubes in house and can make them bent if need be. It's not as easy to bend aluminium tubes.
Atherton Aluminium launch today?
Dangerholm approves
Only if they can be colour matched to prosthetic limbs.
"The Wireless Blips are not rechargeable and need to be recycled with other electronics when they stop working. SRAM estimates their battery life at up to two years, with more frequent riders likely getting a little over a year out of them."
a.) planned obsolescence much? And b.) the EU will have something to say about this if I understand correctly (removable batteries requirement and all)
its like the red powermeter reloaded, obsolete when the chainring is worn
I've had that conversation with someone (triathlete) about a year after they launched the new RED.
"My gears are slipping"
'Your inner chainring is really badly worn and chain wear is waaay past 1%'
"oh ....I've only done 8k on it" (seemingly without ever cleaning it)
'and it's one piece with the outer ring and power meter.....but SRAM do a trade in service at 50% discount'
"oh that is a relief I thought it was going to be expensive!!"
'Well the original price is £800, so it's still £400 plus a chain and a cassette at £350 and labour'
It took about 35 minutes for them to calm down including threatening to call trading standards and the police.
About 6 months later they came back complaining about their brakes making a funny noise.......worn through the pads,the backing plate and into the pistons.
It *could* but he's on-record saying he was planning to drop 12kg for this season (no idea if he's done it tho...)
S.170.1 - £5,999
S.170.2 - £5,500
S.170.3 - £4,800
Up on the atherton site: https://www.athertonbikes.com/bike/s170-enduro.html
Frame only - £2,799
Not a personal attack but the fact that sram has us using the term “ecosystem” makes me wanna barf all over.
Ant BS newspeak makes my skin crawl. When people use it at me I have to squash the urge to stop them and ask what it means everytime.
Here it is in all its glory: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/atherton-bikes-launches-fir…
even back when i was a shop mechanic in the mid 00s, dealing with triathletes was the absolute worst. i can't imagine how insufferable they are today.
New Lapierre definitely looking Spicy
Cannondale called, they want their Jekyll back....
Wait, Rocky Mountain going VPP?
We had to introduce a "piss charge" of $100 for hosing the tri bikes down before the techs worked on them. IYKYK.
Washing tri bikes before I would touch them was the role of the youngest kid in the shop.
pretty sure that constitutes child abuse
In one of the shops I worked at, in the customer notes on Ascend if it said “every second counts” that meant they pissed on their bike and any service performed had an additional $50 cleaning charge.
Nah...it was out there for everyone to see.
Haven't seen a media pic of it though. Maybe it wasn't that special after all.
that looks like some terrible dropper insertion length. Santas and Spesh Enduro have both lower mounted shocks by the looks of it
name checks out
Agreed. Plus it looks so derivative they might as well rename it the Hyde.
if you're reaching for insults & butthurt, you're gonna need to dig deeper.
Similar to the moto world, the pros ride bigger, even if their weight doesn't match what they're riding. It's been pointed out before that guys like Goldstone, Rude, etc are running spring rates above their recommended weight. Same can be said for brakes. It's likely not a good example to use.
Both of you…
Interesting comments from Ed Haythornthwaite (Robot Bike Co founder and ex Atherton) over on PB about the S170.
The guy has some very good credentials, but its hard to decide whether to take the comments seriously or with a pinch of salt as they're from an obviously disgruntled ex member of the team.
Edit:
Ty sethimus