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I have heard from a LBS that Norco should have a new affordable simple Horst link DH option like around 6k CAD for a complete DH bike with Rockshox Select suspension for this spring-summer.

Headlines...and Olympic gold medals, and World Championships.

Spoken like a boomer core lord. That’s what the viral forums seem to have become though. Dario is actually a breath of fresh air in mountain bike media, same as Jason. His perspective is a welcome change from the usual safe, generic industry takes the rest of the media recycles time and time again.

Not knowing the price of something on release day and he doesn’t just make it up? Crazy. He’s basically a dirtbag rider that crushes out the vert and miles. He’s more one of us than most of us are…

Get ready to have your mind blown: German speakers “drive” skis (and bikes).

I am betting its the bilstein shock we saw a while ago (Pic borrowed from P

Heard that RMU, a ski company with shops in Truckee, whis, and breck, are launching an aluminum, DW designed all mountain bike (170 fork) that apparently pedals quite well. There’s likely to be a 140 version to follow, and potentially ebikes to follow that. Made in Taiwan. Should drop in March, curious if they’ll be at sea otter with it. Could it be this thing?

Spoken like someone who hasn't spent any time on Marin County fire roads

The thing is, I'm not sure they are releasing "duds" per say. In my main riding group, about 1/3rd of people are on current gen Epics. I also see a large number of SJ15s around the trails, too. And then when I start counting e-bikes, Specialized is the brand I see the most of at my local trails. Even when I traveled to bike recently, saw some more SJ15s and a Levo. Edit: when I was back visiting my parents last month, I saw a group ride with 8 people and to my recollection, all but 2 were on Epics...

comes probably with the new ZEB.

Looks like the new Vivid air with all same changes as vivid coil(externally at least) exists. But just wasn't launched for some reason?

Sexy

Looks like the new Forbidden downcountry bike?

RAAW addressed this issue by using modular dropouts. They first did it with their Yalla DH bike which has now trickled down to their Madonna v3.2. This is what the DH industry might head towards to accommodate UDH. Also can we take a moment to drool over how the black and silver SRAM design works with the RAAW frames 🤤

🤔 why is everything so expensive now, and why did it appear to start in 1971? 🤔 If only there was a website dedicated to this

Sadly, I'm no longer surprised by the deafening level of whining from people about pro level equipment being expensive.

was digging around on srams website just now and came across this

That’s like, your opinion, man.

If they went through the bother of redesigning the front triangle for this Levo R (it's got some changes compared to the normal Levo 4) then I do not know why they didn't decide to make a slimmer down tube with a fixed 600/700wh slim battery. They likley could have gotten this down to 19kg or so with a full power motor which would have been more interesting imo.