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Well said. So what bikes would fall into Rey's E-moped category? Anything with a DJI and the new Levo?

I went for a ride this morning with Brett Rheeder and Brook MacDonald. Brett's still rocking & pimping the Commencal and seems to be in a pretty happy place, lol he wasn't very pedal fit though!| Brooks rocking the RB helmet but everything else in his kit was unbranded still, and riding that same brown Santa Cruz.... Guess he still doesn't have a team/sponsor yet.

Finally, another person in the specialized bikes are boring as hell camp. I'm so happy

Woooo! I've always wanted Maven power with the lever ambiguity of Shimano's wandering bite point! Count me in!

Man I've got some terrible news for you about mountain bikers and the word "loam:"

Norco Sight QT - 580 Wh battery. Using new front triangle but same rear as the analogue Sight. Second result on google when I searched "TQ Norco Sight"

New clipless pedal from Renthal: https://www.instagram.com/p/DU2f7bsiEVo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&ig…

Definitely a high-pivot ebike

Maybe with an event like this or Rampage, especially Rampage, they should have a two day window for the main event.

Yeah I could have mentioned that they were tossing up between the lowest-pivot idler bike they could make, and the highest-pivot non-idler bike, for that reason. Gotta shout-out Neko/FW for the super-transparent development process with his bikes. It's cool to know exactly what you're getting, and why, and how.

That's because the BB to rear axle height difference is lower (the rear axle is lower), which, as per @AgrAde impacrts the axle path. The more vertical (or rearward) it is, the less shrinkage there will be. The bigger the rear wheel, the more beneficial going 'high pivot' with an idler pulley is. Going from a 26" wheel (or a 24 even) changes rear suspension kinematics a lot. If you just moved the complete rear end upwards from a 26" wheel to fit a 29" wheel, you'd need an idler.

Getting early 2000s "throw ideas at the wall" engineering from guys with MSME from the school of Uncle had a lot of cool tools growing up from the 32" community. It's kinda fun but it's going to end in some embarrassing reflection in a couple years.

I think it makes a lot of sense to consider front wheel size and rear wheel size independently. There's no relationship between them as far as I'm concerned. Choose rear wheel size based on how you want your rear wheel to affect your handling and clearances, and then do the same with the front. If they don't like a 29" rear wheel now, then they're not going to like one just because the front wheel is even bigger. Rear wheel size has a big effect on wheel path, and Frameworks really worked towards maximising the rearward path of the axle...

We can continue to talk about this over here to not derail this forum https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/frame-design But in my opinion there are benefits to a linkage driven single pivot design over a Horst link, depending on what you are looking for. The biggest consistent difference between Horst designs and ldsp is the anti-rise, where Horst link bikes are generally low (80% and below) and ldsp bikes are high ( above 100%) and each of those have their own merits. I love ldsp bikes, they tend to be playful, predictable, and consistent in feel and geometry, I'm designing a high ldsp DH...

Personally hoping for a longer rear center for size large frames and up. I would really like to ride an XC bike that has a longer wheelbase but stays true to short travel and good pedaling manners. There is hope as this is what I imagine Forbidden will be doing but there is nothing really like that out there at the moment.