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Maxxis DC is horrific on some surfaces. If you want a long wearing durable tire look at Conti DH casing soft, it'll be way better than Maxxis DC.
Honest question, what surfaces are you having problems with on Maxxis DC tires? I've been running a Maxxgrip front/DC rear combo for years on in Oregon, Washington, BC, California, Arizona, and Idaho in the sun and rain and haven't had any problems with it as a rear tire*. For a downhill race I'd switch to a Maxxgrip rear for just a little more grip and damping over chatter, but it's not like the bike was unridable with the harder rear tire.
*Of course, dual compound tires should never, ever, ever be mounted as a front tire
Vorsprung released their first coil shock with some unique features that sets it apart from the rest of the shocks out there.
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/first-look-vorsprungs-new-tellum-coil-shock.html
Certain kinds of rock and most roots, and it all gets much worse if it's wet. There's one local trail (Bitterbrush in Lyons, CO) that's mostly rock and Maxxis DC has no grip on it, and when wet it's scary. To make things worse it's not even that durable, the sideknobs on the Aggressor tires get undercut and start to fold over pretty quickly.
They had a big hand is starting the modern geo wave with the Process line, honestly don't understand why they fell off like they did, because the bikes were a ton of fun.
As someone who actually likes having to change tires so they can try more different tires, the Conti rear DH soft compounds have been wearing frustratingly (half kidding) slow. Grip is comparable if not better than maxxis maxxterra and the knobs barely show signs of wear after a season of northeast bike park and granite slab riding. Pretty impressive and good for the wallet. Just put a DH casing soft compound argotal on the back of my levo so interested to see how the taller knobs wear.
Other site says Kona is for sale. I hope they make it through
I had the same experience w/ Kryptotal Enduro Soft Fr/Re; Assegai/DHR MaxxGrip usually last half a season for me, I've got that much on the Contis and they are still going strong.
spd mechanism, new shimano?
Yoshi I think
bikes ride well, but the builts were all over the place for years specwise, not very attractive compared to most other options.
now back to tech rumors
funny shimano isn‘t coming out with an enduro spd pedal. love my saints but they‘re heavy as f* and the cages of the XT/XTR are a joke, make no difference. something in between would be nice, like the CB mullet-e to the mullet-dh is.
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Has there been anything seen/heard of a new Mondraker Superfoxy ??
I thought monty was practically done when jesus garcia left
Jesus Garcia?
Watching now..
New Enves should be on their way, let's see if they stick to the stiff like a brick or they changed like everyone else
Kona rant:
I have a like new 2022 Process 153 27.5. One of a few brands that thankfully makes a fun mountain bike in my tire size of choice.
But they put water bottle mounts on a frame that you can't put a water bottle on. Literally.
The bottle cage hits the shock reservoir. That being said...I'll ride that bltch til the wheels fall off.
Get a Di2 adapter to move the bottle cage further up the downtube...
Wolftooth makes a pretty rad one too. Lots of cages have an adjustable mounting zone as well.
I had the same problem on an older Process 153 (29" size M). The only bottle I could fit was the smallest Fidlock (450 ml). My estimate was around 2mm of clearance to the top of the Super Deluxe at full compression.
Weird kona rant, I had a medium process 29 153 and had no issues with bottles fitting. Wife has a small 27.5 process 153 and can fit a small bottle no problem.
Whats about the super secret black smoking tent freom propain at seaotter? They must got some dope product.
Sram has Black Box, Propain has Hot Box..
Don't know if they made it out of the testing stage, but the Enves I saw last year were single wall moto style rims like Zipp. For sure not stiff.
They will release 1 or 2 gravel bikes. MTB News sneaked into the tent and you can see some skinny tires…
My guess would be a gravel bike or a short travel trail bike.. Seems to be the main two openings in the lineup..
Looking at Sea Otter coverage & other recent product announcements, high-flow tubeless valves seem to be this year's "We made one too!" product.