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With the master cylinder moving the same amount of oil and the piston calipers now bigger, you get less pad rollback (i.e. they sit closer to the rotor in the default, non-activated state). That's the trade-off for that power increase over the E4/V4s. FWIW I have had two Evo sets running concurrently since 1 month before the launch, a set of TR4s and a set of GR4s, and I can't say I can quantify more of a pad rubbing issue or anything like that compared to the previous generation. Granted, they are still pretty new and I did do some...

2026 prediction time! Link to my substack... What do you guys all have on your radar?

I don't hate pinkbike, I just don't visit it. The comments are mostly a shit show over there. Here you can have a normal discussion. We're talking about having a topic so big that it might break the forum. Not all of it was perfect, but damn was it fun while it lasted. On Pinkbike, my experience is that it's some puns that get a lot of upvotes, but if you try to have a meaningful conversation, you're more likely to be downvoted than upvoted.

Jeff, As a human who gets paid to help people sell bicycles, I am much more interested in the metrics that relate to human flourishing, not ecological carrying capacity. Consumers can’t consume if they are precarious- and the precarity of the American Consumer is hard to deny. It takes more than looking at GDP to understand consumers- dashboards like this are imminently useful for understanding the economic fricitions that are creating the overwhelming suffering and lack of opportunities for consumers.

Just here to cast another vote for annual tech threads.

If it's not Pole I'm gonna be disappointed.

Yes, I think annual threads is the format I would also prefer. As others have pointed out, this thread specifically thrives on a healthy mix of actual tech rumors and lighthearted banter / memes. But for that, the conversation needs some sort of continuity. To get that continuity, but also not eat up too many resources on the Vital servers, I think yearly servers would be the best solution.

Quick question @sspomer not that I want to delve into vitalmtb's business here... but is thread qty important to vitals business/website and a contributing factor to this? I think all of us would agree that this website/community is important to us... so if there are things that need to change or things we're doing that are impacting the site's success, we would want to play by a rule set that facilitates that. Otherwise, if there is a way to have annual, or monthly tech rumors threads and that cuts down on resource consumption, and still achieves the business goals/metrics for...

The counterpoint to this, is that having giant threads declutters the forum. I like the balance of the "The Hub" showing the ten(ish) large but active threads and then the rest being smaller ephemeral topics that are based on news or more specific topics. For example the tire nerd thread is split between real tire discussion and then posts from people asking "which tire should I use for X bike in Y location?" - if those turn into individual threads I certainly won't be reading & engaging in them. I like that I can open Vital, get to the threads...

More developments in the WBD saga, with a deal with Netflix apparently "days away", as reported by Deadline: "Netflix has emerged victorious with what appears to be the highest and so far the winning bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, Deadline has learned, and will start exclusive talks to finalize a deal. This caps a tumultuous day that saw Paramount move aggressively to counter the giant streamer and seal a deal of its own for WBD. Netflix offered around $28 a share for WBD, according to sources, mostly in cash. Netflix would acquire the Warner Bros. Studios and HBO Max streaming...

Can’t wait for sram to offer subscription services for modulation.

Yeah, wireless brakes are gonna be a no for me, dawg

Spomer: Closes tech rumors thread to encourage creation of new forum posts for individual topics VitalMTB community:

Great content about the season still rolling out. Anthill and Fox have a vid about Jackson’s season premiering at the Whistler film festival tonight, hopefully it’s online soon.

Here are some numbered bikeconomics from Deviate article on pb. If we assume 5k per bike, a small company like Deviate has to sell about 600 per year to break even

Really loved the Claymore I got to ride at the Vital Enduro Test Sessions in 2023. Super impressive bike, and I hope Ben and the rest of the team at Deviate are able to right the ship. Good luck!!!

please look at him like this when you tell him:

Don't worry everyone: I already had a meeting planned with @sspomer this afternoon, so I'll be sure to tell him on all of your behalf what a terrible person he is and how we're not mad, just disappointed.

@sspomer I totally get your decision from a web resourcing point of view. Things get really expensive really quick when you need to tack on more power. A lot of cloud hosting providers price exponentially instead of linearly. That being said, I think not pinning a v2 and keeping this way of chatting about rumors is a mistake. This thread works because it allows for banter along side rumors I wouldn't ever care about. Prime example is the Santa Cruz Vala, a bike I have negative interest in. However that did prompt the carcinization of bike suspension discussion (that prompted...