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I get what youre putting forward but to Commencals reasoning, they sell bikes to those that maybe used to ride YT’s. The people that look at the plenty capable 34 of their bike and think “Ill take a lyrik or stubby 36 and then throw this thing on my lifted Ford Raptor and hit some green and blue lines”. Just because its thicker and bigger. The minority of their market is looking for the 34. Not making this sound like a dickish thing to say, but look at Scotts. I mean theyre pretty sick now days. They will do what...

This is a slight derail but I agree. My hot take is that the ride quality of the new Lyrik will never be good enough to justify the weight. The previous one was awesome, and so was the one before that. The fact that is being praised as much as it is, opens the door for the other big dogs to keep beefing up. Current Lyrik is nearly identical in weight to the previous gen 38... The Pike was a quality enduro fork in 2017... Please spec 120-140 fork travel bikes with pikes/non-obese Lyriks/36SLs or even 34's. I'm so sick...

Misspent Summers has U.S. shipping rates now. The 2026 bundle is available for pre-order, too https://misspentsummersshop.com/collections/usa

Me. I’m the one who will probably buy one. I am not a more travel is better guy. I’ve run hardcore hardtails for many years as my ‘trail’ bike mostly because I couldn’t find a 120mm frame I felt like I could hammer. This is Cat 5 rated. And comes with a Lyric. Sign me up!

More people than care about Switzerland.

The boom in craft breweries happened a decade or more ago and (from the local perspective at least) a lot of them were angling for a buyout by a macro, or simply lucked into one, and now the macros have all the craft brands they need and command the shelf space and the market is saturated. Independent breweries struggle in such a market. There appear to be a few parallels. The other problem is that the biggest chain of bottle shops here (by far) is Dan Murphy's, and half of the "craft" beers on its shelves (or half of most...

08 crf as well

I'll take tennis racquets, since I know a thing or two about them. Professionals don't use the latest and greatest models, rather they tend to stick with racquets throughout most of their careers and have them painted like current models from their sponsors. This even applies to "signature" models, which is pretty funny (Zverev –– '26 French and US Open Champ –– has a signature head model now, but uses a model variant no longer produced). I don't think there's a male player in the top-10 using a current racquet. There are a couple that have been used by a...

McGrath famously left Honda partly because they changed to an aluminum frame in 1997 - it ruined the bike.

CoreCross is dumb, dangerous and utter chaos. And I f**king love it.

I think this somewhat fits the topic but also kind of doesn't: Alexander Ovechkin, the all time leading goal scorer in NHL history had a falling out with his long term equipment sponsor CCM a couple of years ago over the fact they discontinued the stick model he spent the majority of his career using. Because of the need to constantly "innovate" and give the masses something new (where have we heard this story before?), he tried using the newer CCM sticks and it got to the point where he was using other brands to no avail. At this point...

I think most riders seeking a premium alloy frames are buying from companies that have an established history of building long term durability not the cheapest option available.

Another pon bites the dust.

they used tape for course marking so it's a race lol so freaking awesome...GRC and CoreCross!