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Well, the calendar says "2026" now, a new year is here, looks like just another year of Troy Brosnan still being one of the absolutely fastest riders in the world, business as usual...

Apologies if this is too far off topic, but Escape Collective just announced they're now cash-flow neutral (they've been running a deficit since they launched). Pretty impressive when you consider how much high-quality content they put out and and doubly so that it's funded entirely by member subscriptions.

Because he's a good dude and people like to see nice things happening to good people.

Trek Superepic? Toppic Evo? Convergence is real.

We're definitely going to have to go with a band-based mullet nomenclature system: "I was rocking a Journey for a few months and didn't really like how it cornered. I was Billy Ray Cyrus for a few years before that so I might try a full Foghat setup before me and mixed wheel sizes go our Separate Ways."

Soft launch with a subscription coming up maybe? There is some weird astroturfing going on at another site with two user accounts (one being the same name as here) doing the 'hey, I found this cool app, it does the following' and the other account being the developer. One account has been silent since 2020 until the launch of this service/site and the other (same name as here) was created in early January, the tracker site info lists the end of December 2025 so it all adds up to something that isn't necessarily malicious or devious but not 100 percent...

Hear me out, double flex pivots. Why have one flex pivot emulating a four-bar, when we can have TWO flex pivots emulating a six-bar.

Horst links with vertical shocks are the lightly used mop water of mountain biking.

Good point. They were able to make some sense out of it for the e-bikes, both from marketing stand point and the fit and finish (because motor). I'm not sure how I feel about meat powered bikes from SC leaving the vpp platform... kinda like biting into an oatmeal raisin cookie thinking it was chocolate chip.

Solid move for both. When brage rides Norco? Mountain biking wins. Stoked for the new edits.