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Rumour-ish, but the Transition Spire will not be updated until mid to late next year. Transition focusing on the TR11 (which we know) and some e-bike stuff.

To celebrate making it to 1000 pages in the Tech Rumors thread, here's some news about the one "innovation" no one asked for: The UCI just communicated that they will allow 32" wheels for use in XC mountainbike competition for the 2026 season. Though they very specifically stated only the 2026 season, so here's to hoping they will come to their senses for 2027 and beyond. For the 2026 season this will probably mean lots of frankenstein'd 32" prototypes at the races.

If only we could see this on a downtube🤣

In honor of the 1000th page, we should vote on the best meme of 2025: 👍🏻 for “Crab” 👎🏻 for “6-7” edit: Carcinization is the antithesis of innovation. Maybe we should keep crab talk on the crab talk forum and keep this thread focused on MTB tech rumors and/or innovation.

This, kids, is how we summoned the Holy Crab

Figured it out

As others have shared in this thread, the unknown six bar bike was spotted all the way back in 2023, before the newest Yeti bikes with the latest cable ports launched. To my eyes, the cable ports on that new mystery prototype are a dead ringer for those old SB165 cable ports. SARCASM MODE ENGAGED: Did you even read the thread before posting? Disappointing.

The cable entry design at the headtube, lack of in frame storage, and the overcomplicated pivot/link situation at the bottom bracket, all lead me to suspect Yeti. I feel like Yeti needs something complicated like dw6 or switchfinity is to convince people they are buying the premium suspension option. Meanwhile, suspension designs from 30 years keep winning every DH world cup

That proto frame goes way back. I shot this photo of it in the early fall of 2023. Sorry for poor quality. The obvious heel rub and linkage swap-out (on your more current photo) shows it's seen a lot of hours. The guy riding it started working for a different bike company, so he may have offloaded this one to another industry friend. At the time, I was thinking it was maybe a Diamondback prototype that got canceled/never saw the light of day. He was fairly open with it; it was spotted at local Seattle area watering hole(s), etc.

Tell me you never owned an Ibis for more than 12 months without telling me you never owned an Ibis for more than 12 months.

re: bearings In my 30 years of riding mountain bikes, I've owned 40+ full suspension bikes, and not once did I ever consider bearing replacement ease/difficulty when considering a frame. I know we're a bunch of nerds on here, but do some of you actually consider that when looking at a bike?

I think I’m going for my next bike get it repainted a plain color and buy one of those diapers and ride it everywhere so people will think it’s a prototype 😂

Is replacing 8 more bearings when you already have your linkage blown apart really that big of a deal? I don’t ride a crazy amount, but I do ride a good amount, and I do not replace my bearings more than every other year. Most of the time they are still fine. Unless you’re in the top 0.1% of riders I don’t see any reason why you should be replacing bearings more than once a year. So maybe 8 more bearings to change might take another 2 hours if you’re severely bad at using tools. I spend more than 2...

So in that case its Kona… certain things are hard to unlearn lol

Going off @ therock911's cryptic comment to check out the headtube cable insertion for clues, it doesn't look like a Yeti SB120 or new Scott Gambler, but it does look pretty close to a new Norco Sight. I chose the newest bikes I could think of from each brand as a gauge of how they're doing cable routing right now:

they already do, the Fluid VLT. why should they invest in niche markets like unmotorized bikes?

Soon AI will design the bikes, the AI will scrape the web for what is and isn't important in bike design... it will find this thread. We will then be delivered the true final boss... crab industrial design, with crab link and headset crab claw routing. It will simultaneously be the end of days, and the beginning of days. Related to crabs... does anyone have any inside scoop on SC releases? I'm interested in a new trail bike, I'm fighting the urge to go with a hightower 4, but the SC sizing and geo work really well for me. Despite...

As a fan of both electronic and jazz music I really don’t care how the art was made. If I like it, I like it.

Is the pinnacle of suspension evoltuion the crab? Will all bikes be crabs some day?

I love it and hate it. Always good for a laugh. Love it when people act like it’s going to destroy the planet, as though the capitalist system it grew out of was doing great things…