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Well yeah, but it's stupid. It devalues the brand. It would be better to just list the bike at the lower price, make that the retail price shown, than to list a brand new model that doesn't seem to have had any press or marketing yet at a marked down sale price. Spots been in a tough spot for a while, and I honestly find what they're doing with the leaf spring link super interesting and want them to succeed.
I can't find the suspension thread, so full well knowing I will be downvoted:
@Primoz So you're saying I can get this, file down the arch a few mm (file up?), and run it on my 29er? It would save me a bunch of bucks
https://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/4170208/
I’m not going to downvote you because I’ve got a 2018 27.5 fox 40 and I have the same question
No, you would also need to limit travel. Otherwise the CSU runs into the tire at bottom-out. The CSU has less clearance at bottom out than the arch does.
It was easy to do on the 40 because you can move the crown up the stanchions.
It looks even better in person! Never ridden a Spot myself but I like what they’re doing. A buddy of mine is a big fan, he’s got the Mayhem, their hardtail, and gravel bike.
Also agree! The order is Reduce, Reuse, Recycle for a reason.
This.
Plus it's one thing to file down the arch in order to fit a bigger wheel when a 29 fork doesn't exist yet and you want to get all the benefits to try to be as fast as possible at (dry) world cups.
When you're the average consumer with the correct forks available, you just buy what works. Especially when the incorrect option isn't even that cheap.
I feel bad already about cluttering tech rumors with a politics post. Lets leave it here and I'll let someone make/revive a politics thread if they want to bitch more.
In terms of thermoplastic vs epoxy carbon and the repair of frames, are carbon repairers able to work with thermoplastic? There are two carbon repairers in my city that do excellent work on bikes. All fairly affordable and straightforward. What happens if I approach them with a broken thermoplastic carbon frame? Ignoring theoretical repairability, is it currently practical/possible to fix?
Buttons near the left grip? Something electric driven?
Wasn't there a rumour a while back of the Rallon RS but with Avinox ?
We can see that the shock is right side up, and a nice XT mechanical derailleur (yet to be released).
I would guess a new Wild.
There was a rumor in this thread about Norco and Orbea doing Avinox bikes. I’m surprised they didn’t drop them on DJI Liberation Day considering some of those bikes that dropped are already sold out.
we were talking on our ride last night about avinox, and a couple well placed industry friends was saying that there's a real feeling around that they're about to devour the industry and in particular (SRAM/Shimano/Bosch/etc) as a whole given how much engineering resourcing they're putting into the whole thing (Amflow, Avinox, etc). Granted I'm deaf in one year so hearing the fine points of a conversation at speed can be challenging, but they were saying they have a many many hundreds or thousands of engineers working on the motors, batteries, frames, complete bikes and all the brands playing me too and falling over themselves to get a motor in their ebike is only contributing to the effect that will turn around and consume them when Amflow starts releasing more bikes with potential exclusivity on motor tech and can destroy those legacy brands on price. Interesting conversation and perspective, definitely gave me some stuff to ponder.
political posts and responses deleted. take them to "off the bike"
Well they could throw it in the bin, but if you look at the engineering test values for strength and stiffness, I have seen direct material comparisons of an epoxy material used in cycling now in a very well known/liked product vs a thermoplastic version with the same fiber and general construction. That TP composite is as strong or stronger, and holds up better to impact. And, it can at least be "downcycled" (ground up to make a less strong product than it was - but still a strong product). The issue is, it's more expensive, it's somewhat new and there are few worldwide who have worked to make complex hollow tubes out of this type of material. But it's all possible and "on paper" now - needs effort to truly make a product.
This is one of the reasons I ponied up the money to have a custom steel hardtail made a few years ago. I’m not getting invited to Greta Thunberg’s sailboat or anything, but I liked the idea of having at least one bike that I will keep forever.
I've got that same feeling with my Reeb SST, It's gonna stay with me a for a very long time. I'll probably need to get repainted a few times in it's lifetime. But, my 5yo has already said that he want's it when gets older haha.
plastics usually get thermically recycled around here. speak for yourselves
I started a new thread to keep the conversation going around TPC’s without bogging down tech rumors. Discussions around metals are also welcome!
Materials and Processes for Cyclists
it’s a conundrum: what’s better for the mountain biker? How to deal with the plastic? New garbage pile terrain or burn it into electricity to charge our ebike batteries?
A wonderful problem to have, really. 🤮
the scam of plastic recycling is so sad.
power AND heat. dual use
Don't feel bad. Life is political.
Politics isn't some small aspect of existence that can be sequestered into a couple days just before elections. It is literally everywhere all the time having huge impacts on people's lives.
Bike materials are political. Trail access is political. The ability to afford a bike - and therefore the folding or flourishing of the mountain bike industry - is political. The existence of rural hospitals is political. Ebike motors are political. The efforts to reduce, reuse, and recycle plastics is political.
Is there any sort of innovation in that lane brands should be looking at? Would you be more or less likely to purchase a bike from a brand that offered a carbon repair service?
Who does really great carbon repairs? I think a lot of folks would be well-served by having an option of carbon repair rather than completely replacing a frame...especially when frames are getting to be really expensive as frame-only purchases (if frame-only is even an option).
In Western Canada Roberts composites is good. I've used them twice; both times service was great and you can't tell there was a repair.
https://robertscomposites.com/
I was gonna post this in the economics thread but its locked. I noticed knolly has nothing in stock on their site and then saw this. Anybody have any idea what happened? (wasnt sure if this should have its own thread or not) https://maynards.com/collections/current-auctions/products/knolly-bikes-inc?fbclid=IwY2xjawRxu3dleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFYR3F2VFpLa3VHdERJRDBtc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHo1WQKZVTSv_-Zhkx7v93JSl2O4HdB4uzNg-lgvpg6m6RynxsLYoDaUAjwcs_aem_mUNWnsCxBN09_piLl1vA6A
heres a link to it as well
https://www.bidspotter.com/en-us/auction-catalogues/maynards-can/catalogue-id-bscma10155
and heres the catalogue of everything being auctioned
From the Yeti Instagram post earlier today.
The controller we see is Orbea's RS HMI Motor Control. Is third party stuff even compatible with the Avinox system ? I'm not so sure.
Rallon RS HPR60 ?
Re composite repair, it pays to find someone close who does good work.
10 years ago or more we had someone local who could repair bikes so well the manufacturer (think ultra high end custom carbon) would reinstate the life warranties on them.
That's not too unusual I don't think, my friend has a Nomad with a Cruz-approved local repair.
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