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Atherton will release an eBike, according to the ride companion podcast with Gee Atherton.
Yup... spring 2026... aluminum, full power.
The up, down, repeat message I'm getting from emoji part kinda makes me think ebike..
Priority just released the Vanth—165mm rear/170mm fork enduro gearbox bike. $5,999 starting price, three sizes, alloy front, carbon rear, Pinion Smart.Shift.
We just got one in for testing. The bike will begin shipping January 16th, so look for a complete review around that time.
- Aluminum front triangle with a carbon rear end
- 165mm rear wheel travel // 170mm fork
- Stillpoint High Pivot suspension
- 9-speed Pinion Smart.Shift electronic gearbox
- Gates CDX carbon belt
- 64° head tube angle
- Three sizes: S1 (440mm reach), S2 (475mm reach), S3 (510mm reach)
- Weight (size S3): 39.2 lb (17.78 kg)
- Build kits: Performance Elite - $5,999 | Factory - $6,799 | Podium - $7,999
- Available beginning January 16th, 2025
- prioritybicycles.com
Not quite a rumor or innovation but someone is having fun with the YT website (scroll down and look at the images).... https://www.yt-industries.com/en-us/Demo-a-YT-Bike/YT-MILL-Showroom/
Finally a good use of ai in marketing.
Can you satisfy my curiosity before the full review by telling me how floppy the rear wheel feels?
It looks like it will corkscrew itself if you even suggest a corner to it.
If you wanna send that my way, it ticks a lot of boxes on the things I want to try list...
Haven't heard a peep in here about a new Evil e-bike, but we have spy shots and even geo of the new Offering. I would bet a lot of money on that being the bike they're teasing.
Thanks for the comprehensive history lesson. Didn't know DeCoster raced one!
As someone who's apparently ridden a lot of different "funny front ends," can you speak to what they felt like as a rider on the track or trail? Specifically, I'm curious about three performance traits across the various iterations you've ridden- the feel of anti-dive braking, the effect of non-telescopic axle path on steering and bump absorption when you're not braking, and the feelings resulting from packaging/execution (i.e. bearing slop, excess front end weight, weird spring or damper curves, etc).
I've heard a lot of rider impressions from the recent Trust MTB fork and from the early MTB linkage forks from the 90's (which were universally awful, like all forks from the 90's), but it seems like the moto side of things has a lot more experience with "funny front ends" over the span of decades, and probably has honed in one some of the better traits while working out the kinks on the worst traits. I'm beyond curious what that has translated to in terms of rider feel on a moto.
can you send me a dm with the geo?
I have no connections or inside info, just what I read on page 983. Go check it out, the travel and geo are discussed in a couple posts.
There is a short review on YouTube by QuarterHP with Remi Gauvin riding it. It’s heavy. It’s not fast on the pedals.
https://youtu.be/UJkPzhZouNs
Linkage forks will never work. They look stupid and can’t be made cheap or light.
I’ve been drinking come at me haha
I've just cracked open my first of the evening and I'm finding it hard to fault the logic..
I kind of like the idea of a dual swingarm xc machine. I admit it’s probably a bad idea on the other hand.
Given that most XC riders are concerned about weight, it would have to offer a very significant advantage...
I’ve been reading about the death of the telescopic fork for nearly five decades. Got to put a few miles on a GTS1000. It was cool, but not worth the complexity.
I love a linkage fork, it's a clear violation of KISS but tickles the engineer frenulum. I'm in he camp if they'll never be dominate or mainstream, but will always be periodically popping up in concepts, homebrews, student bikes, etc. they're fun.
As a fan of the concept, one of the biggest signs they're just not worth it is watching BMW slowly move away from them. K bikes are related to 1600cc inline 6 monsters, so the duolever is dead on anything except huge sport tourers. The telelever was on almost every boxer for decades, and they ran leading links before that, but now it's relegated, again, to the largest bikes in the line up. Smaller boxers use regular telescopic front ends. BMWs real performance models, starting with the S1000, have always been telescopic.
You know something's really overcomplicated when even the Germans are trying to quietly forget about it
I counter you with morning tiredness, what about a Lefty linkage fork?
I seem to recall seeing something like that before...🤔
Vital article from a while back at the Chinese bike show this year. Chatted with my local shop in regards to WR1 and they aren’t doing frame replacements unless catastrophic failure. Frames are being sent to a company in Vancouver for carbon repair. Molds apparently are being sold to Sava Cycles and they will be flying the bikes under them and not WR1. Below pictured is the proto dh WR1 but now Sava will be bringing it to production in the distant future.
Is it still complicated if you only need half of the parts?
Maybe only half less responsive?
That was the interesting part of the pink bike podcast talking about the trust fork.. As much a Levy liked it, they both commented on the lack of ability to perform the main function of a suspension fork..
It would be interesting to get a comparison of the Sava and the WR1 frames..
Yeah I've had similar chats with several people, and history has shown if you want to introduce new technology it doesn't really matter what it does well, the most important thing is it doesn't do anything worse. The Trust forks could have improved, and Weagle did acknowledge some of the mistakes, there was just no way for it to really get the chance especially with the pandemic. I thought it would have had potential for different linkage lengths or damper/spring mounting positions to tune the feel of them, which might mean changing to aluminium instead of carbon but at least you get some choice over the amount of anti-dive and compliance in the chassis
I'm guessing it's someone like Roberts composites in Vancouver. I've used them and was impressed including colour matching. Totally saved me from an expensive right off...
Yeah, Roberts composites in North Vancouver is legit good at what they do. Had a stumpjumper Evo with the notorious downtube crack, which was not covered by specialized. I also paid a bit extra for expedited repairs. They colour matched my matte black bike pretty well and they offer warranty on their work. The bike didn’t break in that spot again just other spots…
Just going off name and location, did you have a Boone that was fixed by them? I remember someone in the area having a Boone that had the inner chain stays completed eaten away during a muddy gravel race and Roberts made it look like it never happened. I was amazed by the work they do.