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Was hoping for some new releases at the first ever Sea Otter Australia, but havent seen squat. Lame.
Surprised as well. Think it’s going to be a slow year on new tech. This could be the year we start to see impacts of industry cuts on budget and new projects
Paul Aston had a short but unbiased review of them earlier this year.
https://www.astonmtb.bike/reviews/raicam-rgr-factory-brakes-review
Here's something new: major brand aluminium bikes for five figures.
Edit because the Trek website is increasingly confusing to navigate:
got an email about vivo F3 shifter and derailleur updates. pics/deets below. price is $255 for shifter and $370 for derailleur - https://www.vivoartisan.com/shop
The trek fuel? Carbon, and thats a link the the australian site. So australian dollars. Looks to me like alloy is about 3000 usd and carbon goes up to about 8700 usd. With the conversion to aud still expensive but not crazy compared to like a specialized
https://www.trekbikes.com/us/en_US/bikes/mountain-bikes/trail-mountain-…
Something new from Evil is coming?
New Offering, and i hope a new Wrecker soon.
The numbers in the description translate to "come close" in ASCII encoding, whatever that means.
new offering 160/150 with a 170 build kit that comes with a vivid. and i believe flip chip for MX?
i immediately went to translate that from binary. to me, "come close" alludes to "following" more than any of their model names.
I hope it means "fuck boost frame spacing".
The Calling. Which I would buy… I still think about getting one. But no more warranties on those bad boys
Offering. Wish it was a Wreckoning. Sounds like the Wreckoning is further away, like next year per them when I visited last month.
This seems like something that will give you all the downsides of both linkage and telescopic forks in exchange for some anti dive. But telescopic forks are getting pretty good at mid stroke anyway
A telescoping fork can't react very well to brake-induced weight transfer on its own, so if this is set up correctly you shouldn't have to worry as much about brake dive when tuning the fork. I don't know how much of a benefit that might be and presumably the pivot locations and arm lengths need to be tuned to the rider.
My thoughts: interesting.
Nope alloy Fuel LX 9.
As per the US Trek page $5199.99
And comparing straight conversion for the AU/NZ is laughable and quite amusing.
So thats a mark up of $2361.51 AUD
Prices in the Au/NZ site include taxes, which they don’t in the US isn’t it?
My experience with linkage forks is feeling the wheel sweep left to right or right to left if the wheel is turned. If the travel sweeps through an arc with changing offset through the stroke, then as soon as the wheel is turned the axle is no longer moving parallel to the centre-plane of the bike. It can be really noticeable in tight tech.
This would give tunable anti-dive without the fuckery of a linkage-driven axle path, and I like that. But I might be an outlier because I really love tight, steep, slow tech that's always threatening to put you out the front door.
Possibly. But 10% GST in Australia so, the math still isn't mathing
Here in New England that’s going to catch all the sticks and loose rocks if you do any of the old school tech trails.
as an engineer I appreciate the continual iterative design iteration and innovation. as an internet cynic I wonder how long until he releases an actual rube goldberg device
That's also just about the current USD to AUD exchange rate
Currency Exchange Rumors and Innovation
Not knowing exactly how things work in Australia, but maybe there's a bit more than just a straight exchange rate...
Cornelius from Intend “confirmed“ that they are going to release the dropperpost called elevator in the video if the new monocoque hover shock. Right at the end…
Can’t be long for the official release
What are we speculating he will do differently with this new dropper?
Yes there is.
It's called the "getting fingered tax"
Pinkbike posted an article about that floating front brake setup. It mentioned it was seen at Vital first. Maybe the first time they’ve acknowledged that??