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Happened to one of my friends on our bike trip. He was able to finish the shuttle day without issues. My lesson learned is to put a spare valve in my emergency kit.
"and rumoured to have a "enduro" version for 12spd cassettes for riders who want silence not pedaling effciency."
If they are really going to the double-spring system on all their other mechanical models, this is very welcome news indeed.
Saw the new Maxxis DHF2 or however they will call it on an Enduro-Mag tester‘s bike. So I assume they will be released soon.
I refer to the tire that is run pretty frequently by Goldstone for example
New Intense Tazer is live! We have a Forum Hot Seat happening now (for the day) with Intense's own John Hall, so any questions you can can about the bike can be directed here - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/new-intense-tazer-forum-hot-seat-intense-cycles
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I would love a meat-bike version with these exact specs. Also, the new design language that's been carried over from the Spider continues to be beautiful. If you imagine that thing without a motor or battery and an appropriately-sized downtube and BB as a result, that's a lovely looking bike.
They need to make the business healthy again, 23-26 hasn’t been great.
Re: new saint.
12spd long cage saint would be super rad, especially if xt&xtr mechanical moves to dual spring instead of a clutch. But I need to get assurance if I’m retarded or not; it’s been mentioned now that this theoretical 12spd saint would retain a clutch for those who are “not concerned about efficiency.” What in the hell does a clutch have to do with drivetrain efficiency? Besides slightly affecting suspension feel, more so if your bike has a lot of chain growth, how would a clutch vs dual spring have any effect on the what the bike feels like? That simply makes no sense to me.
Try riding a shimano derailleur with the clutch switched off and you'll feel the difference in performance shifting wise straight away.
As long as the spline interface is the same, the body width is irrelevant. It looks like they are coming up with short freehub bodies, but unlike XD jobbers the full-length splines of Micro Spline means a narrower 8sp cassette would just need spacers to fit on a 12sp MS freehub as long as the interface is the same. Shimano developing a new cassette standard just for DH would be very unlike Shimano. That doesn't fit their M.O.
I tried once but my chain fell off and I couldn't shift.
Sure it doesn’t shift great, but how active and plush was your suspension, eh?
SRAM is more “innovative” by bringing new shiny things to market much faster than Shimano. But I’ve found over the years SRAM has brought some things to market a little too st at the expense of quality and warranty issues.
Shimano on the other hand is slower to adapt and respond, but historically their execution is much better. Their new products typically (not always)have less issues associated with them.
And yet, they haven't introduced anything as good as the XD driver many years later. Don't be a homer.
I would hesitate to call the XD driver good, it works just fine and allowed for the 10 tooth cog but in all honesty, my experience with microspline has been far better. Feels more secure, and I like having the engagement along nearly the entire cassette rather than just at the end, and not having the cassette have to be completely one piece or riveted together is not a problem.
Sram has killed it in bringing new product to market quickly, in being the one stop shop for OEM, and their marketing is definitely working, but I won't say that their products performance is better than Shimanos, though it is miles better than it used to be.
Microspine drivers are a blight against humanity and should die in a fire along with the stupid plastic spacer they require to prevent Shimano cassettes from creaking like a haunted house. The only thing that might be worse than the microspine interface and its woefully anemic, made of cheese, lock ring might be the actual cassettes themselves which in the year of our lord 2026 still are half singe piece pinned garbage that falls apart and half stamped metal plates with spacers. Seriously, 12 speed shimano stuff is the most disappointing experience I've ever had with a drivetrain. I hate working on them, I hate their crap clutches, I hate their cassettes, and I hate microspline.
I know everyone is different, but man it felt good to get that off my chest.
I stripped a lockring during the industry's COVID hangover and none of the bike stores near me had spares. "You too, huh?" they all asked me. Awful design. At least I now know how easy it is to do so I won't do it again.
Nice tie in with the ochain posts. With an ochain security is much better, so running no clutch / clutch off becomes pretty doable.
I am fine with 12spd Eagle X01 durability, except for the clutches. Although I always liked Shimano I wasn‘t blown away by their 12spd mtb stuff.
What absolutely amazes me is their 11spd Linkglide XT! I have 10.000km on my first cassette and second chain, now it is worn, but it still doesn‘t miss a single shift. I never even had to adjust the cable tension. It is so good, it is almost too good to be true. 250-300g more weight on the cassette to the Eagle. And only 11-50t, not 10 to 50t.
Try doing it going flat or uphill and you'll notice how much better the shifting is. For going down I recommend putting the clutch back on.
Correct me if I'm wrong, wouldn't the Ochain free up the suspension movement from the clutch keeping some tension on the chain?
As the ring can rotate forward with the narrow wide chain meshed to the ring, the forces are dealt with by that spider rotation rather than the chain moving in an undamped fashion.
When the spider moves it takes the chain with it, so rather than losing tension you can think about it as if the drivetrain is rotating freely around the crank.
Ok, let's bring back Procore, but that Italian version that used a modified tubular road tire so no inner tube. The valve is now smart and when your tire pressure drops it allows the air to blow out of your inner tire into the main one
They did for Paris-Roubaix (but it's not smart so maybe it's SemiPro Core?
"Mounted to the rims was something new to the WorldTour peloton: Odyssey’s OPTIS tunable insert system, which uses an inflatable core as a rim-protecting insert, allowing mechanics to tune ride characteristics based on rider weight, tyre pressure, and terrain."
https://escapecollective.com/paris-roubaix-2026-tech-gallery/
RMU Nighttrain is official - https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/rmu-launches-nighttrain-end…
I know a few bike mechanics that work at Fairdale dealers who have been riding the Odyssey Optis system for a little over a year now.
It’s a pain in the butt to setup, but the homeys like it. They have also mostly told Odyssey that the setup is enough of a pain in the butt that they’d rather not install them for customers.
RMU NIGHTTRAIN Highlights:
I wonder how much the chain stay grows at sag?
Superboost…?
I have a true love/hate relationship with the microspline, I really prefer the gear ratio of the MS over Sram, the 45t second gear is the perfect ratio for me, I use the granny bailout gear on maybe three occasions a year. But beyond that, it's a massive pain in the ass, the lockring will strip if you ever need to reinstall them, I'll drop the cassette nearly every time I remove it and then spend the next 15-20min looking for all the cogs and spacers, then remembering what spacer goes where... totally unnecessary.
Recently got a new MS wheelset for my wife's bike, and one for my Sram equipped bike, and swapping both types of cassette over on the same afternoon, it really highlighted how much of a PITA the Shimano cassette is.
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