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Thank you for the kind words! Glad to hear you enjoyed the podcast and the history bit in particular. Yes, I do think the DJI and Gobao motor gearbox units are going to shake things up, but the gallows humor joke I was making is that no technology change is ever truly complete in the bike world, where there are still new bikes being sold with straight 1 1/8" steerer tubes, friction shifters, 26" wheels, and freewheels. Which is why I predict there will always be derailleurs even on ebikes, either because the ecvt is too expensive for certain price...

Magnus Manson appears to also be on a Forbidden DH test bike

Honestly I've never found a situation where I preferred the DHF over an Assegai. DHX looks cool too. 1550 grams though... that's a thick b

I love that you think gearboxes will become ubiquitous on ebikes and will entirely replace mechanical derailleurs and electronic battery-powered derailleurs and electronic hard-wired derailleurs and autoshift derailleurs and internally geared hubs, instead of becoming one more option among a confusing sea of options and pricepoints, like everything else in the bike industry. If only it were that simple.

This is gonna piss off some folks here, but YT thought I should watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO1ov28Se_o I think the interesting takeaway for me is that it seems like T-Type drivetrains were heavily beefed up, ostensibly to handle shifting under ebike loads, but now throwing eCVTs into the ebike space might pretty much kill the conventional DR-based drivetrains for ebikes of the not so distant future. I'm curious what this means for future drivetrains on pedal bikes? Will they get more compact and lighter again, or are the S companies too far down the road of burly electric shifting to go...

I think technically Class 3 can have a throttle but it can only work up to 20 MPH. To get to 28 you have to "pedal". I have a Class 3 commuter

in the US: Class 2: HAS throttle, up to 20mph (32kph) Class 3: NO throttle, up to 28mph (45kph) The generic bike path hot rods are just doing their own class.

$381? This is for blinglespeeds, not singlespeeds.

https://grazrcomponents.com/products/tensioner?variant=44181619638355&u… Super sick single speed tensioner from a small company. Really love riding single speed and the sb one was the ONLY decent one ever. Stoked to see this.

I don't recall seeing info on the Blur 5 here yet, but I think both Tobin Ortenblad and Ruth Holcomb were on it at the BCBR.

Why would they introduce a new model when they have one with name recognition?

Except Sram's 11 SPD is 42t max and comparing granny gears you have to take wheel roll out into account as well as a larger wheel is effectively a harder gear. A 30t on a 29er is about the same as a 32t on a 27,5 and a 34t on a 26 inch bike. I also said if your terrain supports it, there are places where it makes more sense to have a 28t in the front with a 52t in the back on a 29er than a 30t. Double so if you're thinking about going 165 mm or shorter...

Depending on where your chain stay length falls you don’t have to change chain length between a step up or down with transmission. T-Type Specs

So if you haven't had any problems with the lack of limit screws or b-tension adjustment, why do you think you're not having problems configuring Eagle 90 and other people are? Possible theory #1: All of the alignment problems people are describing are actually cassette tolerance problems that would be fixed by doing a warranty replacement of the cassette? Possible theory #2: People aren't setting up the derailleur correctly during the very unusual Transmission red alignment cog/"B-tension" step.

It's a shame there is no way to adjust the height of your handlebars.If you bike's stack is 10mm lower than you'd like you just have to put up with it.It's really unfortunate.

Makes sense on paper this would be an issue, but in the real world an airtag inside a carbon frame works just fine.

Recovered my stolen 1-up rack because of one. Dude had his van stolen with his bikes in it. His bikes had AirTags (in the steerer tube? forgot) and he was able to get his van, bikes, my rack + two other stolen 1-Ups and a van full of stolen power tools. The tools weren't his, but the cops said they were now. Inside of the van was torn up and smelled like a methlab…

We had one locally a few weeks ago that was stolen and recovered due to an airtag.