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The other tricky thing with tires is there’s always the question of what pressure and how stiff of a tire do you need. If you just needed to crush 12 mm tall chatter then low pressure, flexible tire, and super heavy wheel would be very smooth. But then it falls apart as you hit anything bigger. I know I certainly end up somewhere in the middle where it’s a little chattery on the really high frequency stuff but then I’ll pinch the sidewall hitting something taller. Not something that can be won on all fronts. The lack of sidewall height...

The venn diagram overlap of "has enough money to mess around with expensive parts and has an expensive bike" and "does not own proper hex keys or a bike stand" is maddening.

Thanks for chiming in, Dave. I think you described my impressions perfectly, I have a light wheelset with light tires and a heavy wheelset with heavy tires and the light tires feel worse in every way over bumps and chatter. I feel like I'm getting kicked around a lot more, and with the heavier wheels I'm tracking so much better and the ride is so much smoother. Now, of course the performance of the tires themselves is different, so I suppose the real test would be to glue lead weights onto my light wheels with lights tires and see how...

RE: MIPS acquisition of Koroyd I don't have enough expertise around all the technologies in the space to comment on the quality of acquisition from an IP/product perspective. What I can say is this is great intel from a valuation multiple perspective and helps give a teeny tiny indication as to what M&A might look like for a company in the outdoor industry going forward. Those suggesting that this feels rich, on initial glance I agree. But again, we don't know what they have in the lab, what patents might be associated with it (can be googled I suppose), what...

Remember, it's not too early to start if you don't stop the night before..

Kinda insane how quiet he went after Hardline. His clips are some of the most unhinged, epic clips of all freeride. It would be so goated if he just went radio silent the entire rehab and swooped back in with a banger edit. He's def entering 'ur fav rider's fav rider' territory. Just good to watch

Thanks for a great year of chatting all things racing. Let's do it again in 2026: https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/2026-race-talk. See you all there!

I made a new thread specific to shimano maven combo: Shimano Maven - S-tier braking (Shaven) - The Hub - Mountain Biking Forums / Message Boards - Vital MTB

Your suspension is doing work on the mass of you and the unsprung mass. Viewing it as doing work to slow down the upward motion of the wheel cuts out the majority of the picture. From a suspension performance standpoint, the argument for lower unsprung mass is the wheel can get returned to the ground quicker after it goes over an obstacle that causes it to lose contact. That is a direct correlation to increased traction. I think rebound is one of the most overlooked things across many industries, but what I was referring to initially was just the compression...

While a more massive object requires proportionally more force to achieve a specific acceleration, it’s important to remember that in compression the thing imparting this force on the unsprung mass is extremely massive. The unsprung mass is going to get out of the way of whatever impact it encounters. Rebound is really the question.

Oh we podcasting don't you worry! The end of the year has flown by and we've all been busy, but the plan is to podcast soon to have a new episode live around Jan 1. For no specific reason....

Race Talk please, not pointless left vs. right talk. You've got enough social media platforms elsewhere for that. ~Vamos

If you're Amaury Pierron and you have a mountain of spare derailleurs waiting for you at the team truck, I'm sure DH Transmission is lovely to use. It's probably pretty durable, and shifts great under power. But as a customer, I can't imagine ever justifying a $500 derailleur on a DH bike, not to mention having one more thing to forget to charge before riding. Maybe ten years from now the price of electronic shifting will come back down to earth, but for now it's crazy to me to use a $500 tool in a vulnerable spot on a DH...

170 with a single crown is a heck of a lot of fun, but it’s no dh 200 with a dual crown.