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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.

Looks like Burgtec have done those custom MX dropouts for Kolb - it would be awesome if something that allows for UDH comes out further down the line

Entire drivetrain industry scared that they already made the best mechanical components years ago and there is little room for improvement. Sandbagging the weight and material preserves the tier structure.

Thanks for sharing this. I'm super curious about the bar ends, and especially what grips people are running. I don't want to start it because I don't have anything to contribute, but I'd love to follow a thread devoted to these things where we aggregate people's experiences installing and riding them. Bet of lot other people would as well.

New Wild dropping on June 18th.

If you want to browse the full menu of new Deore mechanical groupset + brakes, here are all the deets - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/shimano-deore-m7200m6200-mechanical… My initial thoughts without having hands on the product yet: Pricing= good. High potential for a clanking derailleur = bad. New brake lever = clean 🤜🤛

Power of thiccness is a wild marketing line

I feel like they think they discovered hot water with those statements, Also, funny how until yesterday it was impossible to fit anything thicker than 1.8 and absolutely useless, according to Shimano, but now hey, 2.2 😅 which is very welcome of course

Will this finally bring the industry over to 200 mm over 203 mm?

The unfortunate part is the redesign or revision will take a decade to come out as usual.

As a mostly analogue rider who also has an ebike, I was surprised at how rude, even nasty, a lot of guys on regular bikes are—even when you're as polite as possible trying to pass them on an ebike. Before I had an ebike, my buddies and I would kind of snicker at ebikers after they passed, but never to their face. I figured I'd see some of this once I got one, but I was surprised at how rude some "analogue" riders are for no reason, and how often it happens. It's pretty much an every-other-ride occurrence, which is...

That's also because Codes were god awful and the sram riders were so happy to get on an actual brake. I recently felt some older codes on some bikes I was dealing with and they were shockingly worse than I remembered. Say what you will about Shimano brakes, but they've been consistently good for a while.

Found another pic. Seems to be a two-part solution from Sram. So a button to control the FA; with a matchmaker mount so you can mount any mechanical dropper lever combined with it. Guessing some XC people might be interested in this, wanting to run a lighter dropper but still run FA

Last fall, I noticed that some Shimano factory-supported teams had riders still rocking the M9120 lever over the new M9220, and I'm still seeing it today. Guys like Luke-MS on Giant and Ryan G of Yeti in enduro, and other random bikes in pit videos. What could the explanation for this be? For all intents and purposes, the M9220 is a better, updated version, so what reasons could there be not to make the swap? Like, when Mavens came out, it felt overnight that everyone was using them, and we haven't (and won't) see a Code RSC on any of...

Seems like sram has a new dropper lever+flight attendant button combo. Comes on the new scott spark models that has flight attendant but no axs dropper. For example, Specializeds Epic 8/9 pro models with flight attendant and wired dropper, just comes without a pod for the flight attendant, which I always thought was strange.

Not 100% certain, but it might be a Tubolight Diamana insert?

Domi M4. Mineral oil all but confirmed?

If you can, take a look at the Pietra trails. Also Isallo Extasy or Fast and Furious to Revenant is a fun, long downhill.

I did a lot of the trails in and around Ligure on a 2018 Evil Calling, 150f/130r I wouldn't overthink it, you can have fun there on almost anything.