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My favourite anecdote on the pricing that I tell people is that, 25 years ago in Eastern Europe, I paid 1K for a brand new Marzocchi Z1 Bam, which is exactly as much as I would pay for the current top of the line Zeb Ultimate. And there is more to compare, but the point is, we are quite lucky actually compared to other areas in life where things have gone through the roof (housing,...). It is not the cheapest sport, but what we can get these days for the money, the abuse it will withstand, and the fun you...

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PIT BITS video from Leogang

After a 10 YEAR hiatus, Shimano is back in the electronic drivetrain space, this time without wires (thank god!). I've been riding the drivetrain and brakes since the beginning of December, 2024. Here's what I thought of everything - 0:00 - Di2 History 1:44 - Why it take 10 years to make new Di2? 2:48 - Derailleur & Shifter Switch Details 6:10 - New Crank Details 6:52 - New Cassette Details 7:27 - Derailleur Clutch and Design 12:04 - New XTR Brake Details 16:48 - Brake Lever Setup 18:36 - Shifter Switch Setup 22:21 - 150 Mile Test - Initial...

Here's how roller wear manifests as elongation. Though it's perhaps inaccurate this elongation is colloquially referred to as 'stretch'.

PIT BITS video Leogang World Cup DH.

For those who want to start prepping for fantasy, here are the results from last year - https://www.rootsandrain.com/event12176/2024-jun-9-whoop-uci-world-cup-…

https://youtu.be/-oiwsn6G8MQ?si=qZFhHjdUsbd_qANb Sleeper edit

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought the whole promise of cutting the field down to 30 riders was to make it so they could show all 30 of those runs in their entirety. It seems like WBD moved the goalposts on that front pretty hard if I'm remembering correctly.

Losing Vital Raw hits hard, ngl, its just a big part of the DH weekend.

What do you expect us to do? Lube our $100 chain like some sort of poor person?

Why? It's a $14,000 Yeti e-bike, if $220 for bearings is an issue then its not the bike for you to begin with. There's also bikes out there with half as many bearings that cost even more for a kit because of the stupid sizes they use. It's crazy how people will complain about those kinds of costs but will happily destroy the XX1 groupset in 500k because they cheaped out on chain lube.....

It’s easy to work on, throw away the old link, install the new one, be $300 poorer.

I annoyingly just thought of a better meme:

Yeti engineers when discussing how many bearings to use:

More like reinventing the half-link chain.

Propain put their Sresh SL teaser out with a bunch of info https://www.propain-bikes.com/us/sresh-sl-teaser/