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Can't remember which race, but it was on the WB broadcast for the final when Neko was the color commentary. something to the effect of "wow look at him charge that section, this guy won't take 'no' for an answer!"

Ladies and gents i give you....the NEW Pivot Firebird spotted on the north shore today

I think someone is trying to hide their disappointment that Rachel is with someone else..

Do aero fairings on downhill bikes really make sense? Considering that on road bikes, 80-85% of aero drag comes from the rider. On the bike, a large part of the aero drag are the wheels, where we have large and knobby tires, so how effective deep rim aero wheels would be needs to be tested. Considering the issues with cross-wind stability on these deep wheels, it could be outright dangerous to go over larger jumps at any kind of side winds with them. I think that the easiest aero gains are to be had in clothing (aero socks, skin suits...

Here is the important thing to keep in mind, if everyone is in a skinsuit, the playing field is level again. There is limited advantage unless some go with aero solutions and others do not. If everyone is in a skin suit, then everyone is just that much faster. Yes rider size/weight will continue to have advantages/disadvantages, but those cannot be accounted for to ultimately make even. If DH goes to speedsuits, they need to do like FIS (skiing) and set specific regulations on what is allowed. FIS does not allow the rubber style suits used in top speed events...

This child vs adult terminal velocity question requires some real-world testing to confirm.

I'm probably on a government watch list for this chatgpt query.... but, rough math shows the terminal velocity of a child vs an adult - the adult will go about 33% faster. Scale that down however you want to world cup track speeds, but the fact remains, wind resistance cannot be disregarded when you're winning/losing races by tenths of a second. I'd go as far to as to say that wearing a speedsuit could be the difference between winning a race and not even making it past LCQ.

3 percent over 200 seconds is 6 seconds.

Six seconds in a DH race at the WC level is huge..

lots of people demonstrating that they slept through school

You're forgetting about the existence of air. World cup DH races don't happen in a vacuum chamber. Wind resistance is more favorable to a person with a larger mass to surface area ratio (generally speaking, the larger riders). Loic Bruni is going to be less affected by wind resistance than Jackson Goldstone. To think about it another way, if they both go skydiving, Loic's terminal velocity is going to be much higher than Jackson's. They won't fall at the same rate, because air exists.

This. I kinda don't understand the problem everyone has with presta. Like, how is everyone destroying their valve cores all the time? Never happened to me in 20+ years of cycling.

Saw the new sixfinity yeti pedal bikes out on the trail yesterday. My guess is they weren’t ridden by yeti employee’s and maybe some shop riders as one of them had a shop jersey on. Makes a good chance they are coming sometime 2026. They Look super clean

thank you all who participated in this tech rumors thread! i'm going to lock it now, but we're carrying on with annual tech rumors - find the 2026 tech rumors thread here (starting on page 7 at the time of this post). YEW! https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/mtb-tech-rumors-and-innovation-long…

They inverted their inverted 4 bar?

Trail forbidden. Low pivot - could be a rocker link like the e-bikes

Question for the Switchgrade users who adjust on the fly: As you’re rolling, do you go for the ass or the crotch?

Since this has been one of the most prolific threads on the site, thanks for anyone who got things going, kept us informed or on the hook, or tossed everyone off the scent of that's was really happening until it did. And thanks for the Vital crew for switching to a yearly thread like team rumors.

God bless you Spomer, this community is the best.

tech rumors forum update - you've spoken and have been heard we'll lock out this thread at the end of the year (no matter what, it's just too darn big now), and will carry on with yearly tech rumors threads that will be stickied for easy participation. the 2026 thread is already underway here (not yet stickied) i just want to thank everyone for their feedback and insight on what this piece of the vital community means.