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having done a full rebuild on a spark last week i can say that bike sucks, so does the routing, the hidden shock and the whole concept ( broken bolts and all the crap that enters the headset find it's way down the frame where the precious shock is hidden ) such a crappy bike honestly

You know what's really super awesome? When the SC bikes do finally get released like this, we'll get ANOTHER 5 pages of people rehashing the same points ad nauseum.

It’s so nice to see so many opinions being shared. Snore. Here’s a frame drawing I saw today.

Still running the HPR50 motor You didn't see this here:

the status DH has a 180mm boxxer, not 200, FYI. not sure why there's a friday embargo if the bike's out in the wild for everyone to see and talk about

could have just called it S M L XL XXL instead of S M XM L XL tbh, sizing seems in line also these are a lot more pleasant to look at than the eye cancer inducing last generation

Seems to me tech, particularly batteries/motors, are going to advance a lot quicker than bike development or at least manufacturers' willingness to try new technology. So you have them trying to thread some imginary needle/demand with a bike like the Decoy SN using what's already available. We had a working pinion w/transmission a year ago. I have to assume bike manufacturers knew about this long before we did yet a year later we don't see it on any widely available, mainstream bikes. I also have to assume with SRAM and Shimano making motors there's some agreement to spec them alongside...

Here you go Pic in case the post gets deleted...

please keep it tech rumors only and your frame material religion out of here, thx!

Forbidden probably doesn't have the budget to send 2 guys around the world to not make finals

Zink starts his own frame brand, gets dropped mid season.* *it's a joke I wish him the best and hope it's something I would be interested in buying.

German based Sour Bicycles entered the full squish market with two models at once: MTB – Sour Bicycles

if they get i right you won’t buy the new new in 2 years

I bet you think kashima makes a difference too?

That Bilstein patent looks super interesting... I played with a few frequency sensitive valves at RS but could never get them to work smoothly and/or be durable. They would ride great on small bump but then you'd hit something that 'bottomed' the frequency sensitive part and it would bang or spike the damping. Would be cool to see Bilstein enter the MTB market.

Plz point me in the direction of Schwalbes for half the price of Maxxis thanks in advance

MTB Bar height Rumors and Innovation

Legends never die

Just run higher bars with more rise.