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Looks familiar 🤔
Well I guess that's it. Maybe they just stripped the anodising off to not give it too much away. That team used third party products before, they were testing Vorsprung's Secus last off season.
RE Maurer's brakes: the star-shape cutout for the pistons is not something exclusive to Hope. The lever looks really similar in shape to the ones Oak Components sell. The Galfer caliper looked different (pics from 2023):
A really bad pic - But a bike reviewer posted some pics of his current test mule, and he had blurred out a seatpost and a drivetrain.
The seatpost was clearly the new Rockshox dropper, so I thought that the drivetrain might be something from srammers as well.
He had posted a very dark pic of the same bike just a few hours earlier. Which with a little bit of editing - Looks like this
Clearly a transmission-esque rear deraillieur, with a transmission casette. Front chainring looks different from any of the wireless models, and since there are two hoses/cables coming off his right side of the handlebar. Seems safe to say this is the non-wireless transmission being tested.
The pic that circulated the internet a few months ago - Can clearly see some similarities of the profile of the hanger part.
Might be closer than we think to the actual launch then. If reviewers already have them on testing.
Flight attendant launched with the Epic 8 on March 12th last year. They will probably bring updated colors out around the 1 year mark in a few weeks - Maybe we'll see another Rockshox/SRAM+Specialized collab, and the new S-works comes with the new dropper and the new Mineral oil brakes? And the lower tier models comes with this new wired transmission? Or is that too much tinfoil hat from me?
Not secret tech - possibly very useful tech? So this has been around for a year and they have just released external triggers for it - https://bybtech.it/product/chrono#content
https://bybtech.it/store/product/byb-chrono
https://bybtech.it/store/product/byb-chrono-external-trigger-double
Has anyone used this device? The gps sample rate is 25 Hz compared to 1Hz of a Garmin/Iphone
Anyone thinking possible Brembo entrance into mtb, or too early for them to have something started by now?
Someone will be running the numbers 📈 I bet! They have a trials brake/clutch ATM, the caliper is 20% bigger than a maven size brake (260mm rotors). It’s an obvious move, but they would probably need OEM volume (Specialized?). Braketec offer a brake that would work currently and the trials guys are swapping to smaller aftermarket levers at the moment too. The use case scenarios are 30-40kg of a difference if your talking about e-bikes.
15-year-old's journey into making his own full suspension frame
Maybe @carlinojoevideo ?
No I haven't used those BYB lap timers. The only one I've used it LitPro
Richie usually runs Ochain but this one looks different?
This is pretty amazing, love the innovation here.
Yeah I don't recognize that either. Might be an Ochain-like device, but it looks very "power meter" to me.
looks good !!!!! perhaps cause Im a coffeehead haha
He must be training with power. Looks like the Power2max NGEco MTB.
Who else thinks this needs to be a thing???!!! 😂 Apparently you can make them from discarded 34 stanchions. Get on it machinists, I need some!
rsf suspension sold them ages ago
Credit where credit is due, RSF has been doing this for literally years.
One piece is not necessarily stiffer. The steel bolts keeping the two halves together are stiffer than aluminum.
But the bolts only pull the two halves together. They are not a tight fit in the bore. The rest of the aluminium structure (from the bolt head to the start of the thread) can still deform and the seam between the two parts can open up, lowering the stiffness.
Unless really badly designed (really thin bridge), a one piece part will be stiffer and lighter than a two piece design. But also much more expensive as it's more complicated to make.
The bolts are torqued and pre-tensioned so they are not a passive element and are acting on the stiffness of the caliper in a different way, all other things being equal this can result in a stiffer caliper than an equivalent 1 piece design. You can do a bad job of designing either type of course.
I spoke to Rob rides EMTB about the ones on his bike, apparently fox give them out during media events etc
Leaked spec sheet of the new 2026 Giant Reign E+, some interesting details in there.
For those who don't want to read / in case the photos get pulled: SRAM Transmission (non AXS aka cable-actuated).
Also, tire pressure management system? Wonder if that's just a pressure monitor like a TireWiz or something that can actually change pressures (which could be cool). It comes on all levels so I would assume it's just a built-in monitor.
Also also, 160mm cranks stock 🤘
Okay so confirmed that the cable-actuated transmission is called SRAM 90 Transmission then?
Also, is this the first 48v system on a MTB? Most systems out there are 36v.
Looks like 70 for lower end stuff, makes sense.
Anyone else think that it’s going to be NX/SX quality?
Most likely, unless there’s like 50 too.
For the e-nerds, what does a move to 48v get me? Faster charging? Better efficiency? Hopefully both. My current Reign is has an 800 Wh battery and I have a 650 Wh I can quickly swap in so going to 560 Wh integrated gives me range anxiety. Hopefully the range extender fits the smaller frames, my current M barely fits a small water bottle. I assume it’s going carbon and losing significant weight and bulk with the smaller integrated battery.