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I just gotta say, as far as mtb online community contributions to the lexicon go... crab link is way better then downcountry. Feels the right amount of "inside baseball" and too far out there for the masses to absorb. Feel like this is going to be one of those if you know you know inside jokes for a long time to come. You guys should be satisfied with yourselves lol.

Love that Forbiddens latest email pays true homage to the Crab link: "Still wondering what the f**** we’re on about with all the crab stuff? A theory exists called Carcinisation wherein all non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. A very clever Vital MTB user noticed how many mountain bikes brands had evolved towards the same form and linkage lay out. He declared that this new evolution of bike layouts be named the crab link. And many pages of crab jokes followed. It’s an obscure and very inside joke. But hey, now you’re in on it too." Trend setters we...

"Designed to push the limits of what's possible on the roughest terrain..." Spec'd with EXO casings 🙃

Yeah, those are all locations that definitely should not pivot.

For more than a decade MTB forks have had very little space in the lowers for lubrication. Like 10-15cc of volume. If you add more than that then the fork becomes very progressive at the end of it's travel. Since the lauch of Buttercups most riders have complained that those forks are very very progressive at the end of their travel. Well the Buttercups sit in the same tiny space that the lower leg lubricant goes. I would expect that the new extra volume add-on on these pro forks is to make up for the loss of volume from the...

would you say that you're...... pivoting away from them

Not sure if this has been posted but got a picture of the bottom of the Brosnan's Boxxer at the US Open. I assume this is what's on the Zebb too.

I don't think 4.23mm chainstays are possible..

I feel I fall into the majority there.. I ride my gravel bike like a road bike that allows for more options. Mine is set-up more along the lines of what some now call an all-road bike. 2x drivetrain and 38s let me do some fun dirt and still roll decently on the pavement. I'm not sure how I feel about suspension and gravel.. Maybe if I was racing or doing longer rougher dirt rides, I might want it, but I'm in the camp of if I feel I need suspension, I have a mountain bike..

Gravel bikes has become too wide of a category of bikes, what we need is subcategories! The downgravel, the enduravel, the graero...

Not technically a mountain bike tech rumor, but it's very funny to listen to gravel riders insist they aren't just reinventing 1990s mountain bikes and then see product releases like this... https://www.bikeradar.com/news/rockshoxs-rudy-xl-gravel-fork 60mm of travel and clearance for 2.25" tires. This thing would have crushed the NORBA XC circuit. All it's missing is some stanchion boots.

this thread is good again good job everyone and thanks ball bearing helmet for making it happen

Ceramic bearing upgrade for my helmet, please..

gonna come around the corner with my conventional helmet and low-side on spent RLS helmet marbles I can just feel it

RLS is so effective, that in an independent study, RLS was found to reduce the risk of concussion by 4x on average compared with conventional helmets*** Yet the study linked is 1) Not peer reviewed 2) Not actually published yet 3) Is hugely biased. Quote from the study: "Competing interests: This work was funded by HEXR Ltd. All authors are employees of HEXR Ltd or Dropmatics Ltd, which may benefit from the findings." HEXR is the company behind RLS, so they directly benefit from a study about increased safety from RLS. Also, canyon supplied the helmets for the control group...

Yo Dawg, I heard you liked Mips, so I put a Mips on your Mips, so you can have a helmet in your helmet on your helmet.

“RLS is first and foremost designed to protect what makes you, you”, says RLS founder and CEO Jamie Cook. --->Image from RLS site 😆

I’d rather cut my face open than be a vegetable