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If only someone made a linkage that allowed a longer shock to to be run on the Levo and it yielded 170 mm of travel. That would be wild.

Specialized has been able to this point to keep ebikes up to 10 years old going with new parts, and within usually pretty quick turnaround, so it is possible, but they're in charge of their own parts catalog for that stuff and not many others are. Hoping this becomes the standard.

My 2c - Clip E bikes, drop UCI sanctioning, take it to more interesting locations like the golden era & make the coverage part race review part destination / travel show. This would also allow you to pull tourism money from local governments in return for running an event in their area. Having some events integrated with Crankworx also seemed like a good formula for pulling interest and unique talent to the events at least for a time, as was the Trophy Des Nations - would be good to see those two things back in the mix.

And poor Kona trying to release a backpacking hardtail on this day. I guess they didn't get the memo.

I'd be curious to hear from some of the industry people in this forum about what is, by my estimation, one of the weirdest release days I have seen since being interested in MTB. From the outside it seems like DJI placed an embargo on press releases/ forced brands into a certain launch window. I count eight Avinox M2S bike launches on Pinkbike. Surely this is frustrating for the manufacturers? Their bikes are being lost in sea of press releases for bikes that tout the exact same ground breaking tech. Seems like a marketing nightmare to have your product made...

The new shock coming is most likely the half air, half coil. I would guess its similar, if not identical to the one that came with the moto v2 set. I believe that the "built in" neutralization of the chambers on this new monocoque shock is one of the reasons you cant run high pressures, as you can run higher pressures with the old Hover where you manually closed a valve between the chambers in the shock. (I have both the old versions, and the new monocoque) So the new "hybrid" shock is most likely an answer to this, where...

Top tube humps are a death knell

Ah yep, that link is goosed. Try this: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/0858… In some sizes the Gen 2 looks fine, but in others the 'Shitting Dog' stance comes through a bit more. Overall I'm a fan of what Privateer and to an extent Airdrop have been doing in terms of making simple, strong, affordable-ish bikes. Just a tricky part of the industry to be operating in right now.

surly sorceress hardtail https://surlybikes.com/collections/sorceress

Here's all the updated SRAM Eagle stuff. Big day for components... https://www.sram.com/en/sram/mountain/series/eagle-drivetrain

PS. New saint flat pedals releasing later this month…. Except they are from 2021, when they first released and then quickly got shelved because the axles were breaking. So they finally updated the axles, only took five years 😂

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don’t think the link works. Love hunt/privateer ethos. But latest bike was so close but so far. I think they tried to do one thing too much and the design sacrifice was the hump which became a non starter for so many.

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