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Filippo Ganna, the current holder of the hour record, is 193cm.

in-tire pressure monitor from outrider on kickstarter that landed in the inbox. kick starter - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/outridercomponents/outrider-tl-min… site - https://www.outridercomponents.com/

Hey man, Charlie and company were selling IMBA SUCKS stickers and captioning videos of people smoothing concrete driveways and building slabs with smarmy comments like "IMBA trail crew building another sanctioned tech trail" like 12-15 years ago, which predates groad bikes and eebs by a solid 8 years or so. Core riders have been complaining about the proliferation of blue flow trails for at least 15 years now, but I guess the boogeyman has changed from IMBA to.... gravel bikes and 32 inch wheeled mountain bikes? If anything I can see the adoption of 32 inch bikes leading to another...

Reformed xc guy here. When I was on 29 and my riding buddy was on 27.5 (both xc hardtails) the acceleration advantage of the 27.5 was impossible to ignore just as the momentum of the 29 was. For trail riding the 27.5 looked more fun in more places while the 29 just hauled the mail when things straightened out a bit or went down hill. I fully expect the same “revelations” in all of the 32” bike reviews to come out this year.

Flame me if you’d like, but 32” wheels is one of the few things that has me excited for a new bike. There are so many amazing full suspension bikes now ,and geometry, for whatever discipline, have pretty much leveled out. As someone that rides my Singlespeed as much or more than my FS, I’m excited to build up a rigid Singlespeed 32er. My local trails are fairly mellow and as I get older I appreciate momentum and keeping a higher average pace over “shredding the gnar!”

I wonder how fast the Santa Cruz V10 would be with Aspen STs

I noticed in the past that there was a certain tipping point.. Usually once it got too far past 5/gallon the potential new bike commuters seem to taper off.. My guess is that the money that might have gone towards the bike ended up in the gas tank before they could make the purchase..

I worked on advocacy for the 15 minute city concept, and can tell you that literally no one has actually proposed restricting travel. That idea is a "bUt OuR fReEdUmB" talking point aimed at people who do their own "research".

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.

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