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Wouldn't it be possible to give each rider a top notch action camera and hook it up to a system like they use for the drones at downhill and what not, and just broadcast it. Riders unlikely to finish in 15th place or worse can just get an extra weight attached to the bike. No need for a commentator, just put Josh Carlsson on an E-bike and have him cruise around and chat with the riders between stages. I'd watch that.

Hahahaha, fairly wild I suppose... Cheap AliEx Zrace M1 levers. Got them on both my short and long travel bikes. I had the zrace levers fitted to some Tektro orion 4 piston calipers originally, which was quite an improvement over the Tektro levers. I then found some DB8 calipers on special so swapped out the Tektro calipers. Have got a several hundred k's on the "zrams" now. They even impress a mate who has been running v4 Tech 4's

I left Felt before that one was developed. I designed almost half of their bikes through 2010: the first AR, DA, Bayonet, and aluminum TK bikes were mine. BMX's, Beach Cruisers, MTB's all sorts. Working on their 6-bar link suspension bike is probably what lead me to design my 3ish bar link bike because more links = more problems.

Starting to see some real head scratchers of pricing on complete bikes this year. Wondering if PMs and accountants have to price things a certain way despite logic. Check out the yeti SB140. https://yeticycles.com/en-us/bikes/sb140/kits We will use the non LR version for this comparison. Yeti actually has a pretty cool mechanical transmission build kit that uses an x0 crank, chain, and cassette, but the 90 series mechanical shifter and derailleur. This bike is $6600, it’s the T2 build. The next level up is the T3 which is the x0 transmission build. Every single part is the same, aside from shifter...

torsional flex on my flash, stiff enough most what you see is really coming from the stem/bar

Intend are going to seem like a bargain when Fox reveal that pricing of that bad boy

OK, I looked it up and yeah @FaahkEet originated it and @nskerb drove it home: https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/The-Hub,2/2020-MTB-Tech-rumors-and-inno…

Ten Myths About the U.S. Tax System - Freakonomics I highly recommend this one.

In the meantime, I have an incoming factory order of a couple thousand mtb pants that are going to be hit with an additional 26% tariff, for 53.9% total import tax. India. That would be all fine and good, if: 1: I thought consumers would be wiling to pay 26% more. LOL. 2: Tariffs would hold at 53.9%. They won't, so I'll be in a permanent hole on this year's inventory. These import taxes will roll away within a few months. Businesses need a predictable environment in which to operate. If I knew the tariffs would actually be permanent and...

Considering the market opened down 6% I feel its probably a good idea for me to release this little app. Its a good place to watch how the publicly traded companies in the bike, outdoor, powersports or "outdoor adjacent" space are performing through this shit show. Few thoughts... URL: www.otherhours.com -The name isn't great. I just had that domain so I used it. -All quotes are delayed; I am using the Yahoo Finance dataset which isn't great (but is free). I'm also using FRED for the CPI/yield stuff. I would not rely on this to trade or anything, but it...

Hi y'all, Longtime reader, though I rarely post. Some context I run a small non-bike company in Sheridan, WY. We make a ton in house, import a little, and outsource a bunch to other companies in the US. We do about 40% of our sales in Canada. These tariffs will put the brakes on the entire economy. My business is well positioned to make 100% of our product in the US, which would seemingly be a boon for us. But who is going to be able to buy it? Will our customers in Canada want to buy our products at...

i envision a future usa where the bikers ride on old stock, several times repaired carbon frames, like they do with their oldtimer cars in cuba, lol. there will be a huuuuuuge repair industry, making old stuff workable again, just to safe on these tariffs.

To be fair, it's also possible that competitively priced and highly specialized manufacturing will pop up in the U.S. at enormous scale with armies of knowledgable, specialized non-immigrant workers in the next month to save us from these high costs. That's all we need. Well, that and in-country raw material extraction for materials that often don't exist in our borders in the quantities we need, like bauxite, rubber, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, etc. But if we can figure out those two aspects in the next month we'll be fine.

When printing 7075 stops being exclusively for NASA applications, that's when some truly insane bikes will start to hit the market. I'm hoping to start prototyping my own alloy lugged rig from September and I'll be updating this forum on how it all goes!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DH1PmP5C2QW/ just registered for this. Seen/found at mtb-news. Propain light eMTB 160/150 travel with TQ. About to release end of season.

Unfortunately it's an aluminium frame, so not many options for repair. There is a carbon repair place fairly close to me and I know a couple of people who have had great service from them. I have some carbon frames on the shortlist as a result. Image of the the crack below, spotted mid ride on a snack break, on route to hit some jumps. Pretty sure things wo ld have got a lot worse if I had made it to the jumps without noticing.

Slightly off topic maybe, but this past week I've been looking for a new enduro bike/frame after I discovered a big crack in my Nukeproof Mega (obviously no warranty on that anymore) and I've tried to contact a few brands with specific questions about bikes; often asking what is the max seatpost insertion on a frame, cos they left this off the geometry chart. I've been surprised by the complete lack of response from some brands and retailers. Given that I have money waiting to be spent on a new bike and the current state of the market, I thought...

$25,000 purple anodised everything ASR

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