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There are like 3 completely idiotic conversations happening at once here.

Maybe most of them know that would be inappropriate and choose not to be weirdos

Manitou Mattock Pro. Easily maintained at home, easy to do damper changes, stiff enough for a trail bike and I bet lighter than all those other options. I find the best way to limit myself from taking the smaller bike over its head is tires. Put on some fast rolling and slightly sketchy tires and you won’t be tempted to drop into the loose and gnarly stuff, even with burly suspension. Bonus is being shocked with how much faster it is when climbing compared with the big bike. Resist the urge to accidentally make a heavy, slow trail bike!

I have literally been trying to file a third-party preissuance submission with the US Patent Office for 2 hours but their website and phone menus are dogshit so I'm giving up. It would have been hilarious if submitting a pdf of vital comments is what got a patent not approved. Anyone got contacts at SRAM? Would be good to at least contact them lol.

SRAM owes me royalties. I called it in June of last year.

I'm so glad I left engineering. Lol. This reminds me of discussions with my old boss who loved analysis and wouldn't leave us alone when we had anything vaguely interesting on the go. Trails have bumps. Bumps give momentary grip. the momentary grip results in a momentary braking force. The momentary braking force results in a momentary decrease in the effective spring rate if you have high AR. So the bike feels softer in the rear which is exactly what you want in the moment when your rear tire hits a bump riding down steep shit. Trails have corners. Even...

I unfortunately have not.

Bike industry: 32" might make sense for tall people! Also the bike industry: Lots of small and medium 32" frames, no XXL frames.

I want that long headtube.

Must we, every 3 months, have this same tired drivetrain discussion. You like what you like, I like what I like. No one cares. Start a new topic if you guys want to duke it out about how terrible the wireless world is. Back to the rumors: 30T ochains on more builds in the future from a few brands.

It’s weird - sram can release an ecosystem of groups with proprietary cassettes, derailleurs, chains, rings, that have stratospheric prices and persistent issues (speed, shift calibration limitations, QC issues, cassettes that need to be installed multiple times to settle, battery pins corroding etc etc), plus compromises they try and correct release to release. Maybe that’s ok, it’s up to the rider. At the same time, Shimano releases a new di2 ecosystem that uses their existing(and awesome) cassettes, chains, rings, has the industry leading shifter for ergonomics. A sealed battery compartment, but its perceived to be noisy on some bikes, but...

We are big on the battery choice thing too. We don't know how or where everyone rides. If we offer the option, you pick what you want. You know you're riding better than we do. Why Aluminum: Call it part timing and part strategic. A big facto was our alloy e-bike was due for an update because of the dated Shimano motor it was using. We also saw a hole in the market as there were rumors of all the Avinox bikes going carbon and very high priced (keep in mind all of this was in play long before the...

He's doing it right then. Small production runs, update the product every single year. Only build about 6 molds total, S-XL & probably 2 Larges. That's 1200 high margin bikes per year. If they make $3.5k/ bike, that's a cool $4.2million GP. If the mold wears out, make a mid-year refresh, even better. Nothing bikers like more than their new ride being a miniscule amount improved over their buddies POS from 6 months ago! E-bike's are changing too quickly to build a mold that has such a high cost that you would need to sell many thousands to recoup your...

Parallel cam-over spring so it adds chain tension in the small cogs and subtracts it in the large cogs. Edit: pulled the pics- don't want to make trouble.

In response to the latest Tallboy they're going to start making VPP bikes with interrupted seat tubes