Hello Vital MTB Visitor,
We’re conducting a survey and would appreciate your input. Your answers will help Vital and the MTB industry better understand what riders like you want. Survey results will be used to recognize top brands. Make your voice heard!
Five lucky people will be selected at random to win a Vital MTB t-shirt.
Thanks in advance,
The Vital MTB Crew
Damn, those Raaw bikes are sick.
I love my raw RAAW, but not mad at that purple at all.
The combo of that purple with the gold Ohlins is 🤌
The are a few other gems in the article I linked including Sacki from Bikeyoke personal Banshee Phantom. Tons of stock e-bike too but can be quickly scrolled past.
Looks like a fresh Orange website with a vastly streamlined # of models:
https://orangebikes.com/
(I own a Stage 6 and am admittedly biased. I love an Orange!)
Yeti human powered bikes going to sixfinity👀
One step closer to crab
“ChatGPT, show me a yeti crab”
Edit:
Sixfinity is more or less crab with extra steps
Edit: this was only meant in jest so I won't take it any further!
It is not. Switch infinity is much closer to a Horst link (it is a genuine 4 bar) than sixfinity. It's actually behaving a lot like modern DW links (that if I understand it correctly, do not even conform with the original patent).
Yeti switching suspension systems would explain the massive sell off on RCZ though.
Dread it. Run from it. Crab still arrives.
Wow 7 thumbs down. Don't mess with the yeti fanbois or maybe its the cameltoe on the yeti crab?
was to be expected. looking forward how yeti is trying to improve on the current sb-line. loved my sb150 and been even more impressed with the sb160.
I think it might be the use of AI. A lot of people hate it, me included.
AI is gay
Yes, MS paint reaction memes only please, have some self respect, people!
CRABFINITY
That's nice. Servicing the infinity link on my wife's bike is a pita.
I hope Forbidden doesn't make the pedal powered bikes also crabs as it sounds like some testing was done of the e bikes without motors. My Druid V2 is way sexier than the crab bikes so I hope V3 doesn't go that direction...
Your Druid v2 is an inverted crab
I love it and hate it. Always good for a laugh. Love it when people act like it’s going to destroy the planet, as though the capitalist system it grew out of was doing great things…
I miss when people used to draw silly little drawings of things. They were fun and whimsical and now its like "oh, a computer made that with no effort" and it takes the fun out of the photos.
Is the pinnacle of suspension evoltuion the crab? Will all bikes be crabs some day?
As a fan of both electronic and jazz music I really don’t care how the art was made. If I like it, I like it.
Soon AI will design the bikes, the AI will scrape the web for what is and isn't important in bike design... it will find this thread. We will then be delivered the true final boss... crab industrial design, with crab link and headset crab claw routing. It will simultaneously be the end of days, and the beginning of days.
Related to crabs... does anyone have any inside scoop on SC releases? I'm interested in a new trail bike, I'm fighting the urge to go with a hightower 4, but the SC sizing and geo work really well for me. Despite it being very bland and the industry norm, I would be interested in a crab link tallboy... but also would be interested in the new tallboy even if it's a different crustacean or even fish based. The hightower 4 is more travel then I need for my trail bike... but the current tallboy is a bit less.
I think Forbidden will come up with a short travel crab bike eventually. Rocky mountain element before the flex stay would be also a good and lightweight option.
Not if I unplug it first.
I think I am too weak mentally to pedal a high pivot bike on 6-7k elevation gain days. I can admit that the idler doesn't provide more then 1-2% drag... and with my roller coaster fitness levels, it won't make/break my ability to finish a ride with 5k+ However, mentally, I'm going to be over thinking it and my obsession with a properly lubricated chain with no noise will really mess with me.
I did get a few rides on a druid however... and I will admit it was the best 130mm bike I have ever ridden. Hrmmmm... The previous gen rocky is a great suggestion, my lbs carries them and I always forget about them as an option.