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I mean there is way more amazing riding about an hour drive from Maribor: Bikepark is located on the eastern edge of Pohorje plateau and there are two other bikeparks up there, Rogla is small and quite family oriented but Kope is investing heavily into mtb infrastructure and have a build crew living there whole summer. This year they also did a fest series. And a bit further west there is arguably the best riding area in Slovenia, Carinthia with a large number of amazing tracks - most of the Slovenia riding videos are from there, this is the area...

I wasnt expecting that being written by someone from the other side of the world but I agree Maribor could be on the list. That mountain is one of the best in the Europe for riding and the season pretty much never ends thanks to the climate change as the lower part might only get snow for few weeks of the year and they have built a gondola middle station. And the loamers are insane, you just need someone local to really show you the best one. Housing is cheaper than Slovenian average and you can still strike a decent...

One I don’t think has been mentioned yet is Maribor Slovenia. The gondola for the bike park with the old World Cup track is right at the edge of the small city. Not the most quantity of trails in the bike park but 700m vertical on the main gondola, good trails, and tons of loamers and seems like a free for all to build in the logged forests adjacent to the bike park. Some other smaller lifts further up the mountain and I’m sure some good pedal access riding around. I don’t know how the cost of living actually is...

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Oh, wow, thanks for bringing the headline to my attention, because I had missed that before! Hmmm🤔. Superlight Full-Power eMTB sounds pretty good to me. It seems like it would either have to be a shorter travel more XC style frame, or maybe just a lighter build of the PX, in a manner similar to what Specialized has been doing with their special editions. That title wasn't on the Instagram version of their ad, so I thought these commuters were the only thing coming on the 17th:

Stoked to see CS grow, but also wish it was longer in the larger sizes. As a tall guy who loves to dabble in light snappy bikes, 442 rear paired with the XL front center is still quite a bit off IMO (you said +7 from the v1 435 RC). Mostly thought long stays were just for bruiser bikes until I started realizing how beneficial they are on hard technical climbs, which is exactly what I want to be using a short travel bike for. Are you working with them on the next gen steezl too? Pls pls pls tell...

Might be able to talk race organizers at SOC into a cargo-bike dual slalom event. They've done some other pretty ridiculous demo races.

orbea wild rise LT has 170mm front/rear, 48 pounds AND avinox motor. just run it in eco if you don't want the help? https://www.vitalmtb.com/product/guide/e-bikes/orbea/wild-lt-carbon-764… the rallon RS is only 40 pounds with 170/180 and tiny motor and battery. https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/orbeas-rallon-rs-e-bike-thats-not-e-b…

If I had to speculate, Big S is a large ship to turn, and they were already a few years into Levo 4 development/production when the Avinox wave started to break. They probably would have liked to react sooner, but they had a massive glut of L4 inventory that they needed to unload first. We've seen them frantically coming up with different build kits (the R model & Evo) using the same base frame/motor to try and clear out some of that stock. But if they hold fast to the flop of the L4 design too long, they will cease...

The levo downtube could swallow an amflow, it’s not just a price matching issue.

How anyone this whiny about what people on the internet think of their opinions gets by a day in the real world baffles me.

What the f*ck is the point of that rear mudguard 😂

Used some top secret forensic enhancement software from the CIA to recombobulate the pixel matrix and guess what:

Honda enters eMTB market… and will exit pretty quickly.

The spots in Romania and Bulgaria sound very cool not even on my radar. I went into a good rabbit hole on both and they sound very nice. This is the reason I started this thread to hear about places like this. Thank you for all your responses.

I'm happy to help with planning, recommendations and whatever you guys might need. I am here and can make all sort of connections. Soon I will be also able to tell you what races we have next year. ))) We can wrap this whole thing wearing VitalMTB t-shirts and taking a selfie for the guys on the forum. Bring it on! Mx

I know it makes no difference whatsoever to the performance - but the way they have used different orientation of the dots between the two shoes really upsets me.

Yeah and Nah. The shrug and move on rather than calling out, also encourages the anonymous cowards to continue with their pathetic course.

You're on the internet. There are losers on the internet. There's a certain base level of negativity from that part of the population that you've just got to laugh at and ignore.

Please don't take my post as complaining about what you've done - I know making even digital "stuff" and making sure it works takes time and effort (and money!) that could go on other things (and it's remarkably unbranded for something that's kind of a sales tool).