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I was at Eurobike last week and was really curious about the Stablead products, specially their suspensions. It looks really well made, I was checking their enduro inverted fork and saw it had a USB-C port. The guy at the stand said it was for an electronic damper. All forks would come with the USB port so you could upgrade to electronics even if you buy a traditional fork. They said the plan to release was for beginning 2027. Other than that, I couldn't find anything interesting apart from the whole Gobao/Avinox CVT madness, really curious to try them.

In short to your question, no. What electronic shifting will do is increase the efficiency of a given bike by adapting to the behaviour and lock out while pedalling (if we're talking flight attendant). For an already efficient kinematics design (around 100 % antisquat), the change will be miniscule, in my experience more or less related to added ride harshness over an open shock with a minimal change in the amount the bike bobs. For an inherently inefficient suspension design, one exhibiting a lot of pedal bob, either due to not enough antisquat (suspension compressing under power) or too much...

New Fox Factory live fork or am i wrong? previously we only had it on shocks Seen on Pivot Suspension Calculator

Credit to Bikepacking.com for pointing out this spy shot hidden in Trek’s new video:

As a person in the bike indusrty for 30+ years, Owned a bike store for 6 years, And has owned 5 Yeti's one of which is still my favorite bike my 2021 SB 160E still going strong. Today was eye opening! The MGU and CVT is real. DJI is not a copycat, And will eat the big 3 bikes brands lunch now. And the sixfinaty Yeti pedal bike is around the corner. Weird day..

Welcome news, but hopefully they're straighter out of the box than HS2s.

Understand the sentiment, but this is where the newest in new development seems to be happening.

For the people who complain about too many bikes being horst link now--get ready it'll be all of them soon. Being able to easily split the rear triangle makes belt drive possible. Gonna be hard on the sales floor to tell people the chain that needs constant maintenance is better than the belt that doesn't. Maybe another one of the reasons Santa Cruz shifted the bullit/vala away from VPP. Seat post insertion, belt compatibility, and minimizing ugliness; three pretty compelling reasons. I think brands are going to probably be hard pressed to put all their R&D into ebike horst link...

do you live under a rock? check yesterday’s news about their everyday ebike for 3500eur (with taxes). those things are getting cheaper because of the chinese, not more expensive…

Surron to release a VPP e moto

Arguing about surrons and surron demographics on the MTB tech rumors thread. Sick. I wonder if SRAM considered 6 pistons when working on the Mavens. Maybe after the 1000th piston massage, some SRAM tech was like maybe we should just add 2 more pistons.

I always interpreted that as a Trojan horse for headset cable routing

They just need to tone down their love of cable tourism on the rest of their offroad lineup now...

Is this supposed ban only for XC and gravel, or DH and enduro as well? DH rules for a long time have basically been that you need two wheels (and maybe brakes?), and that what makes it so cool. Road bike development has been stifled for decades because of the UCI, and I'd hate to see that mentality of prescriptive design come into DH. AON et al are some of the coolest setups, and limiting wheel size would be a step towards travel limits, weight limits, or geometry prescription like road bikes are.

would it fit? : )

those are youtube's auto-generated captions calling the R an SL. AI will save us.

We did a comparison test between Specialized's Levo 4 and Levo R to see what separates each bike. And selfishly, I wasn't really sold on the Levo R and wanted to see if Specialized was just blowing smoke or if it served a purpose. TLDR - both bikes ride really well. The Levo R could be made into a sick mini-enduro bike with some different components. Motor power/range is great, but I'd struggle to buy one knowing Avinox exists and offers more everything at a similar or lower weight. Like, comment, sell your soul to the devil 😈

Yeti loves their low stack... almost as much as Pivot loves a short CS.

Yet I am over here about to seek out if anyone can make me some extensions for full 29 like Minnaar used to run! so, if anyone sees this and is capable, please actually holler.