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I believe that the idea behind 15 minute cities wasn't to restrict travel, but to lay out cities where you don't need to travel more than 15 minutes to get what you need. But, in most American cities, a 15 minute drive takes at least 30 minutes and a 15 minute walk is considered to be inhumane.

I'd imagine that Giant makes considerably more building bikes for other companies than selling their own. Plus, with leadership changes and the passing of their founder, maybe they are restructuring how they market their own brand. With everything they've put into the processes on the new Anthem and TCR Advanced, I'd expect to see that used for other brands at the top end.

I think all it might take is for a product manager to go to a bike shop for whatever reason and spot the wall of tyres for $100+ a pop...

Miss Richard Cunningham...

Not knowing the price of something on release day and he doesn’t just make it up? Crazy. He’s basically a dirtbag rider that crushes out the vert and miles. He’s more one of us than most of us are…

We don't have any Marin County fire roads in VT.

Would you like us to assign someone to butter your wagon?

Nah, The Industry™ will widely adopt the same marketing/design paradigm Orange wielded for so many years, moving the main pivot a couple milimeters up, then a couple milimeters to the front, then machining it before heat-treating the frame, then afterwards... Circle development, seasoned with a subtle price hike on each stop.

It's arguably needed a lot more with 12 speed drivetrains than it was with 9 speed... Hanger alignment and accuracy is much more important now than it was back then. And no, it's not the steps between gears that's the reason for it, it's the offset pulley that affects things if the hanger (and derailleur) is twisted around the vertical axis. It's a question how much it helps with preventing twisting around the vertical axis though.

I know full well what a four bar linkage is. Or a 6-bar. By your logic, we could have 15-bar linkages, think of the marketing!! By your logic Canyon's DH bike is a 6-bar. It's actually a single pivot. The thing in question is how many links you NEED to have the wheel mounted to the bike. With a linkage driven single pivot, you need one. The swingarm. It's that ONE link that defines everything - axle path, antisquat and antidive performance. One single link. No matter how many additional links drive the shock. Therefore Delta and linkage driven single...

Linkage driven single pivot is not a four bar. You're looking at the suspension characteristics not the number of links, so it's a single pivot. Same for Delta.

https://www.crankbrothers.com/products/plug-mate-tire-plug-anchor-kit 👀 No more blowouts.

They’re using the 6-pot again? Thought they decided against it several years ago when they were testing it with the tech3 lever… probably saw that Lewis are selling some 6-pots and decided they want a piece of this pie after all as well…

The "Grassroots Enduro Series" in Ireland does (did? I moved away a few years back) that. The venues are usually relatively compact (as are the Irish mountains) and all stages are open from say 0900 to 1500 and you can race the stages as many times as you like in whatever order you wish. Always a good day out with (for me) the focus on riding fun new (to me) trails with a bunch of mates. Cheap entries too. EDIT: Link to series website: https://grassrootsenduro.com/

I know this needs more staff/volunteers, but especially for the ebike category, I would love to see a format where you get to race the stage as many times as you want, best time counts. Let's say you have 3 stages, first one is open from 9-12, second one from 11-2 and last one from 1-3. That way regular bikes could get 3-5 runs in depending on fitness, ebikes could potentially pump out 6-9 runs. Makes the frustration of catching a rider or crashing less of a problem. As a middle-aged mostly ebiker, spending $X to spend most of the...

When I raced enduro moto the results went like this. The fastest time of the day and anyone who got within 20% of that time got gold medals. Then the time bracket below silver medals. Then all the rest and ALL people that finished the event got a bronze medal. I still have all my medals and having your country’s best rider giving encouragement and handing out the bronze medals as you cross the finish line creates people that return again and again.

I'm making note here that this is +1for less Mini DH. Personally I think that this is an underrated opinion, and that the DHification of Enduro has limited options for what promoters can throw at their racers. That said, as a promoter, I have absolutely contributed to this because it felt like where racers wanted the sport to. Maybe it's time for the pendulum to swing back?

This is a great idea (to connect with WSCL), but combining with XC race weekends will likely not work out: 1. Requires many/most parents to get a hotel ($) 2. Most coaches/parents won't want their kids blowing up their legs by climbing in an Enduro race the day before. Since the XC results matter for the WSCL. 3. Will be the haves and have-nots. The kids whos parents bring their enduro bike as well vs. kids on hardtails. Not every family can haul 8 bikes to a race (parents often bring their bikes + 2 kids in the WSCL). Love...

Grassroots doesn't feel grassroots when a race day ends up costing close to $100+. As a parent, it's also hard to justify an 8 hour day to ride 5k feet with all the waiting around between stages. I'm squarely a mid-pack Expert, but taking away the full course from Expert was a bummer. Enduro isn't downhill, managing fatigue throughout the day is part of the game. In other words, a relatively easy day out for a lot of waiting around and money spent doesn't math.

Practice day on Saturday. Race on Sunday. Having the races on Saturday means you have to take off work at least all of Friday unless you know the course. So if you want to make it more accessible, or encourage people to travel to new places, not having to take days off work is a great place to start.