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3 trek vans at the top of telonics today in plain sight. lachie was present.

I use thinner oil than the fox gold (~50cSt eg Maxima Plush Dynamic light, Rockshox 0w-30 or Motorex 10wt) all year round, especially in larger stanchioned forks or long bushings like a Zeb. Certain applications (ie cold weather or large oil volume like a smashpot) can be even better with a 5 or 7 wt oil. The stuff over 50cSt is good for 32mm cross country forks but creates too much viscous damping at high speed, and can be dragged past your dust wipers and in to your damper too easily

Looks like Anna Newkirk, or another medium height woman with brown hair. That would check out. Although it could have theoretically been Callie Horwath, Neko's gf. Anna would make more sense from a marketing and team hype perspective though.

From the red website, pretty solid that their new ebike is running a DJI

Forbidden eDruid & eDreadnought with DJI motor, so two questions answered 😁

I wonder what an Atherton steel hardtail would cost... Lugged. 12 sizes. Rigorously tested. Perfect bottom bracket. Perfect headset. Peace of mind knowing that it's all made as well as possible. Lifetime warranty. Long term support. A little caché from the name. $1500 is completely within the realm of possibilities there. What is your hourly wage at your job? Should people who have a job they like be paid well enough to survive and retire? Let's pretend this isn't a fully custom bike but a bike that'll be built boutique style but repeatedly. 6 hours to put together the frame...

Labour is always a huge chunk of cost - it will easily take a half a day for a very good builder to produce a frame but that requires expensive machines which drives up the cost. Thin wall tubes need much better equipment for cutting and welding as well as the expertise required. Making stuff by hand is hard - anyone who's produced a part a frame themselves could see how tough it is to make money from it. But think of the opppsite view - a mass produced frame that is pumped out all day every day still costs...

A $1500+ small batch steel hardtail frame, a $1200 Norco Optic frame, a $1100 Turner Scrub TI frame, and a $700 Banshee Paradox V3 frame. All of these frames have objectively different ride qualities, and many more subjective differences. You can decide to value them however you like. The market has decided to rank their value in this order. Also see: wine, collector's cars, fashion, cigars, concert tickets, art. What's the correct value for any of these things? If a frog had pockets, what would it carry in them?

I don't know, I got a pretty sick frame when I was at Jiffy Lube last week getting my oil changed... On a serious tip... I think it's about supporting the little guy, knowing a guy sweat over welding YOUR personalized one-off frame, that feels unique. On paper is there higher real market value compared to the same frame from Trek, no. But, different things have different value for each of us.

99% of the car shop welders have never touched a thin wall steel tube and will blow holes into their first few tube sets. Their heat control will also turn the alignment into a pretzel. Majority of custom frame builders aren't making a living selling the number of frames they do make at the rate they charge.

Wow your totally right. I stand. Corrected. Thanks for the info.

Dura Ace R9200 12 speed was launched August 2021, XTR M9100 12 speed was launched 3 years prior in May 2018. Sram Eagle was launched in March 2016, Sram Red (D1?) 12 speed was launched 3 years later in February 2019. 12 speed was always developed for mountain bike first. wide range cassette bigger than 11-36 were for mountain bike first with Sram XX1 10-42 in october 2012 and 2015 for Shimano M8000 11-42 cassette and another 12-15 month for XT M8000 11-46 cassette. And no road is not 90% of Shimano Sales, I would say 50% is road, 30%...

It's nice having a boss whose preferred answer is "Go for it. Give it a try and see how it works."

Hi there, Cam here from Outlier MTB. First and foremost, thank you all for your positive comments and support during our recent launch! I see that some of you have been discussing the actual pedal drop on this forum. There have been some misunderstandings that we would like to take some time to clear up. Our Pendulum pedal as it was released has 6mm of drop measured from the centre of the axle to the top of the platform. Most flat pedal platforms are somewhere between 5-7mm above the axle so our pedals are essentially ~12mm bellow your average pedal...

https://www.norco.com/bikes/mountain/trail/optic/25-optic-C2-mx/ ok im kinda laughing at this. I know they already made one with a vivid and that was funny enough but for some reason seeing an X2 stroked to make 125mm just tickles me. Norco went so unhinged with the Optic build and I absolutely love them for it. Short travel high pivot... Entire separate linkage to run MX... and offering stock Vivid/X2 options for 125 travel lol. Surely these product dev team meetings have gotta be a blast.