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Apple Air Tag is my guess, can't have another bike stolen! I keep mine in the steerer.
As others have said, its a TMD, more specifically Rimpacts that was newly launched: https://www.rimpactmtb.com/tmd
Wild guess here that nobody has made yet....but maybe it's a TMD?
So they copied the homework from Sour Bicycle Double Choc prototype, which was copied from Foes' Ridgeback? Not saying it's a bad thing, mind you.
Confirmed mid june for shimano's next drop.
Whens the Fox USD drop? Remember the word being in June
It’s a fairly classic suspension layout to be fair.
My money is on mid July
If I had to guess it would be a 200-180 27.5 bike and a 200-200 29-27 dh bike in the same front triangle with different chain/ seatstays with different shocks (225x70 or 75). They need a free ride bike. There marketing is awful right now with them saying “hey look a race bike!” But every single well known rider they sponsor is on a full 27.5 tr-11 Shit they even had their website back ground of one with a bomber 58 after their faq says don’t run a 27.5 fork lol.
this bike looks totally finished and painted. It’s ready but I’m sure there just trying to clear out older stuff.
To add the next tr-11 is 100% ready. A quick kiwi was spotted a few months back on it
Good interview on PB, they go throught everything. Enjoyed thr listen.
Someone needs to design a Tuned Mass Damper / MultiTool combo. Where the tool takes place of the mass inside :D
All great ideas there. I do find it weird that they released that refresh (or whatever you want to call it) of the TR11 in May with updated colors, spec, and apparently some kinematic changes. So I guess like you are saying there will be a "race" DH bike and a "play" dh/freeride bike. Also, would assume you are referring to George Brannigan, I know he has been riding this updated TR11 as of late. Can't say I have seen him riding this new bike that was spotted though. do you have any photos of him on it?
Looks like a good place to hide a airtag
There is zero room to hide an airtag in the TMD
I try not to take photos of where I saw somome on it (new dh bike with vertices shock) so I’ll leave it at that. The bikes you’ve seen here are clearly ready. We’ll see how long transition takes to actually drop them.
Maybe they should design a mass damper that doubles as a tracker.
nope, surrounded by metal, bad idea
June 24th
They are very good if you want the ultimate enduro/ebike smash down steep stuff fork.
I got an email from Trek with details about a Top Fuel RSL that was seen at the WC last week...
Is that a tech rumor? Found it pretty sick (Mighty Argo gondola in Idaho Springs).
https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bikes/mountain-bikes/trail-mountain-bikes/top-fuel/top-fuel-rsl-gen-4/p/61644/
Looks like the same frame with XC suspension. Fork reduced to 120 instead of 130 but shock stroke remains the same. The geo difference makes sense due to a 10mm shorter fork. Maybe a throwback to the 2017 Top Fuel 9.9 RSL (miss that bike)
Funny, i went looking for it on the site and missed that... Also, a difference rear end on the bike, using flex stays to drop some weight..
that's cool! pressure builds with every position, HA
I dont think there is a flex stay.
Looks like I was wrong.. But, the picture on PB showed a flex stay.. I guess we'll see that at some point..
I'm pretty sure that this is the gondola in Sölden, Austria.
They have the Elements 007 advertise on them, which is located there.
Here is a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naulv6O8yfw
You can see a "Sölden" blue add inside one of the gondolas at 0:07 on your video.
I heard XT start of next month, Saint next year.
Makes somewhat sense, if Saint was closer we would have seen it on pro bikes as well instead of XTR only