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https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2025/04/16/specialized-an… TIRED OF WINNING YET?

Fuck that, time to fire up the VPN and start digging a tunnel.

$8 million!! Am I naive or is that a helluva lot of debt for a small company?

Not to bragg or anything but I'm probably the biggest Melamed fan here - and perhaps in the whole world; but I have to side with the owl on the Sram/Moir Matter. Dont know the first thing about WC money bizness but I find It hard to believe that Sram just supplied MoiMoi with a "couple of forks".

@jeff.brines " I sure would have loved to see a rider pit the old Stumpy Evo against the new Stumpy 15 one in back to back testing (and that rider can't be sponsored by specialized )"

In regards to " just how significant of a headwind the plateauing of performance has become for the broader industry." I have my own anecdotal experience with this in just the last few months. Background: I have been a mountain biking for almost 30 years, I slowly over time worked my way up to having high-end bikes, custom small builder frames, and usually 4-6 bikes at a time. I currently have a custom steel Singlespeed hardtail, a full suspension trail bike, a tricked out Dirt jump bike (evil imperial 😉), a Rigid Fat bike, a gravel grinder/monstercross bike, and enough...

Does anyone have a date for a shimano release? Rumours last year from Shimano Rep was feb but not sure now?

If you think what rumors have done to Daprela is bad wait til you hear what Daprela did to that woman

Hold up… You carry a spare derailleur when you ride?!? Are your trails on Mount Doom or something?

Yeah, I'm probably influenced from Ft Bill being a boring TV watch regardless of full-run or not. On camera the speed an roughness doesn't com through well and it's hard to see what a rider is doing to go faster or slower. The motorway at the end could be cut and I wouldn't miss it, along with the drone shots from 300 ft in the air and cameras trying to look through the Gondola.

I reckon theres been plenty of instances where a rider goes from right at the top to just off that pace with a new/different bike. It really doesn't take much to fall off that absolute maximum pace, it's seriously hard to perform at that level. Think Gwin on specialized. While all bikes are good these days everyone has different preferences and needs to perform at the highest level.

Kinda shocked at the number of comments on PB blaming the UCI. If a pro athlete can't stay on top of their wearabouts filing for drug testing they must be hiding something. Like okay they fail twice in a year and then get their crap together, but to fail three times knowing the consequences is crazy.