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I've got a customer who ordered an A-series bike that I'll hopefully be helping build soon. One thing I didn't know was the customer is contacted and brought along through the whole build of every frame. He gets check in's from Atherton bikes every step of the way. To me, it seems to be taking a bit longer than I expected but it sounds like they're quiet busy. Interesting to see the customer side of what they're doing and it's pretty impressive to what I've seen from other custom builders.

In the PB comments, many are asking why not put the battery internal, but then you have to plug your whole bike into a USB-C charger instead of just popping the battery out and leaving your bike in the garage

I hate to be the bearer of bad new, but you are going to see less and less adjustable chainstays moving forward. The wide adoption of UDH means no more chainstay adjustments. The only adjustable UDH dropouts I've seen are from small steel hardtail builders.

Back in 2010 or so I had the 2nd gen Magic Link Coilair, and I loved that bike (cracked it, warrantied, cracked again, etc) and to make room for the tricky bits in the suspension it had 460mm chainstays in a size L, back when Speicalized was selling downhill bikes with 420mm chainstays. Long story short, this is when Strava first came out, and on my local DH 3 min section I was easily faster than on my DH bike, despite having less travel and worse components/tires. I attribute it to mostly those long chainstays, as well as the magic...

Hoping @CascadeComponents can chime in on what they think @CascadeComponents are up to...

no way will 32 be for anything except XC or gravel, right? please? pretty please? make it stop?

While I'm here. Is it rude to spread my own rumors? Yesterday I released v2 Digit frames. I don't have a marketing plan so for now I've just posted a list of improvements here: digitbikes.com/blog/changeblog. I'm also going to start selling a frame-only option, and an aluminum wheel build.

I don't remember that, but I would love to know more. Does anyone know more, please? The EU patent office seems to have a hard time retaining any understanding that my slider-cam linkage is very much not a 6-bar or Horst link. I recieved a new misunderstanding email yesterday, so I'm trying to decide right now whether applying there is a waste of time and money compared with just securing Germany and UK.

I grabbed this from one of his practice clips

yea but is it artisanal?

That is just a video of another youtube hack hiding behind a mask and showing nothing but pictures that we have all already seen.

Hot take. Patents on suspension linkage designs "We'd be a lot cooler if we didn't"

Plus, lifetime often means "until we release the next iteration and run out of spares.", which can be significantly less than 10 years.

Looks like Scott accidentally posted the yet-to-be-released Gambler's drawing to the geometry section of the current Gambler.

To be fair mate the S Series bikes have been out for 6 months now. You've had to be living under a massive rock to miss them