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Even more pad shapes to stock!! Woohoo!!
Sure, just don't brake too hard, molten red plastic is not the right look. Or is it 🤔
After 20+ years, will we see a Minion DHF 2?
Correct. No big price gap between XT and Deore. Deore is the new SLX.
The current Anthem is already a flex-stay design (and has been since MY2023). Since Giant has already moved away from Maestro for its XC line -- and has used aluminum flex-stay suspension on its lower-end full suspension bikes for many years, too -- perhaps they're feeling more free to experiment with new layouts/configurations. Will be interesting to see if that carries over to production bikes or not.
that's stupid from fox, we've already seen all this pictures anyway in public channels, with proper articles, so now it became a secret again? i don't get it
Don't think it will be long now.
KS Rage Circuit wireless dropper - $399
120-180 mm of travel, 30.9/31.6 diameter
https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/ks-introduces-rage-circuit-…
Proto- calipers from Shimano on Goldstone’s and one of his teammates’ bikes looking like something Saintish??? Anyone got the details?
Rumored release date of 2036
Did they say for certain it was production and releasing soon? Edit to add: because that picture was clearly more than just a rando prototype. Looked a lot like a production sample/ pre-release unit… I knew it was going to get taken down because of that. They have a plan for the lead up to the launch and whatever that was ain’t in the plan
I'm here for it. I still am a huge DHF fan and an updated version would be big!
Adding the L shaped shoulder knobs to the middle is a bold move. I've not seen any other tyres that look like that!
Next week.
It's not that it becomes a secret again! It's that the folks at Vital do it out of courtesy. It's a mutual respect thing. When someone at Fox is taking spy shots and posting them here, that could be anything from an over excited employee, to corporate espionage.
Maybe they'll call it the DTF?
I do feel deleting from the rumours forum undermines the point of having a rumours forum.... There is a big difference between posting and article of leaked images as a industry journalist and some random person posting on a forum.
from rick schubert pit bits that will go up later today - proto brake on jackson's bike. no details given other than "might be the long-awaited Saint update."
https://www.mtbr.com/threads/fox-podium-usd.1239738/
Someone over on MTBR has a production Fox Podium (USD) posted up.
Quick hit the link, save the pictures before it goes pooooffff gone.
I designed this so happy to answer any questions on it. Its actually as stiff as the stock countercycle mount (probably stiffer with the 4 points of contact at the fork) carbon reinforced plastics are pretty stiff with the right infill and wall thickness, also sometimes you have to use the tools at you disposal, if i owned a cnc Id probably do something different
Those brakes look hot.
I thought it was quite neat and hides it well, I did also see one that mounted on the stem in place of a spacer too, which is the route I'm guessing you'd take if you had access to a CNC machine?
The spacer is a factory counter cycle option but it doesn't fit on the glory
Haha hey im a process engineer at a large machine shop and the first thought I had was that it’s actually an awesome design. My issues was more critical of the already trivial benefits of vibration damping to then mount it to even stiff plastic mount is still going to be another layer of damping that’s between the bike and the damper.
BREAKING NEWS: Maxxis MTB Division releases 10,000th tread pattern, earns commemorative wrist watch from corporate headquarters in Cheng Shin to mark event:
Flexstay are just Faux-Crab
Or DNF?
I better fuggin get one of these
That's a very Maven-like design.