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So the Arrival was like the Lexus LFA of the bike world. I can respect that.

$325 bottom brackets. 3 year warranty with annual bearing service.

Freudian slip typo in the bio 😂 "de sigh"... 😑

Ronan Dunne with a saint crank that has a direct mount, xtr looking chainring

Well, I have seen discussions of it also having something to do that when they produce a frame - They become a OEM competitor. If they dont produce one, they might be able to sell wheels to OEM's for full builds. (Just something I read in some forum somwhere, cant remember where) But, most likely since pricing has been discussed. It seems like the Arrival frames were priced at similar prices to other manufacturers framesets - Around $4k (Santa Cruz, Rocky Mountain, Yeti) etc. Same price, but produced in Canada, probably makes their profit on the frames way worse. I...

Your point about being a potential competitor to other frame manufacturers (when it comes to OEM wheel spec) isn't invalid, but I agree it's likely pretty far from their biggest reason for cutting off frames. I worked for a boutique bike brand (eventually as a product manager) when the Arrival 152 was in full swing launch/marketing - lots of guys there, including myself, ran WR1 wheels on their personal bikes. When the time came and we began looking at new carbon wheel spec options, WR1 should have been a prime candidate (if we ignored weight, which wasn't something the brand...

A bit of shameless promotion, but hopefully it's relevant. I just put out a podcast episode where me and Alan Milway chat through all the 2025 team moves (confirmed and rumoured). Hopefully it's an interesting watch/listen. https://youtu.be/Mu0JAhGceB8 or https://www.downtimepodcast.com/team-moves-2025/ Clearly this forum gets a mention! Thanks to everyone here who keeps the rumour fire burning, I personally love it!

Thank you for posting this. Too many people are using a racing rumors thread to talk crap on Kerr. It's also pretty sexist and BS that people are talking crap on Jenna when she works incredibly hard at her craft and has the speed. Can we move on from this please?

Jenna won as many races as Jake Jewett last year. ...and she won the Women's Elite New Zealand Continental Series race this last weekend beating Sascha Earnest who by many accounts is a podium threat for this upcoming women's World Cup season. It's fun to pretend she's only around because her and BK are together, but I think a tough couple seasons for injuries made us forget that she's actually pretty fast and was a Junior World Champ.

Who gives a shit about how reliable rivians are, anybody's thoughts on EVs, etc, in this thread we should almost always be stoked when non-industry sponsors (making a OEM tailgate pad doesn't teleport them into the industry guys) get in on our guys and gals. Good on her for looking outside the mainline sponsors, who are all on the struggle bus right now, and towards somebody who, for now, is swimming in their scrooge McDuck vault of VC money. Get your bag Kate! Edit: Those sunglasses upside down and two inches from her head in that photo there turn what...

what was the point of this brand anyway? afaik they just offered the same frames under a different label unlike liv with purposely designed frames for shorter women

As I said…. Max spending big on Loris, on red boxxers. 2 former Union riders on TFR - Mcnab, Davis Syndicate got the groms Mob expanded, and Ahern doing other things Norco has World Champs. Anything else?

Peak #teamrumors flex is going back and searching through a couple dozen forum pages to quote your own (correct) predictions. Not bad.

I hope this is on topic - But since it was news from this week. Just got the OneUp pedals delivered. Some pics and size comparison to Saints for anyone that has been contemplating them. They are very similar in size, I would say maybe 5% smaller overall platform. Tried to "dry" clip them in to my Fox Union shoes, but the pins are quite high, and the clip mechanism seems quite hard (From my experience shimano is the same, and it takes a bit for them to "break in) - So I could not clip them in by hand...

I'd put flat tire elimination at the top of the list, but that's just me...