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Instead, the brakes seem to be routed through the handlebar. Worse?

Blackbox is like "skunkworks".

They were all allowed to pick their own components. Kasper is running Shimano brakes for instance.

One of the defining ideas behind this year's YT Enduro Mob was to let the rider choose their own parts.

As far as I know, YT has embraced a Mob Mentality (SWIDT?) and allows independent component and perhaps clothing sponsors.

I'm just a guy, but how can you tell there's a spool valve inside a shock from a drawing of the outside of said shock? All I could tell is it uses a coil spring and has knobs on it.

it`s a way to sell more wireless stuff like axs and flight attendant.

I think the majority of riders don't fully grasp how to finetune the derailleur so the through headset routing doesn't impact them directly. It looks cleaner so it sells on the shop floor. So all the moaning and whining we do on these forums has a precisely diddly squat effect on the situation as at the end of the day it's the sales numbers that matter. And the sales of through-headset routed bikes might just be better than the sales of externally or through-frame routed bikes. We are vocal, but we are a minority. Sometimes the vocal minority can change...

More likely Epic

Interestingly, The "enduro project" bikes revealed this week, https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/commencal-enduro-project-bi… have very distinct cable routing ports on the drive side. The bike in that photo does not, not even a hole...

GODDAM this is annoying. The whole point is that thanks to the rear mech mounting to the axle a hanger is NO LONGER NEEDED. The frames still use a UDH mount and tolerances that have been in use for years now. How many UDH frames have you seen where the axle doesn't thread in due to mis alignment? how many frames have wheels off centre due to bad UDH tolerances? The square root of F'All. Most misalignment comes from poorly produced.....................hangers. If the mech is out of alignment with this system, there is a whole lot of F'wittery going on...

Why are companies doing this? I own a 2022 Meta SX, best bike I've ever ridden but if this is the route (no pun intended) Commencal wants to take, I will look for another brand for my next bike, as would most likely everybody. Why is that so hard for companies to understand?

Well now that's a bummer. One more brand to cross of the list (still might nab a Meta Sx before it's too late!)

Soo, we all know about the meta prototype (near public nowadays), a few days back commencal showed us the photos of the factory Enduro teams with the frame with internally routed cables but the frames still looked a bit prototype (not much of a paint job etc) Today, Antonie Vidal (by far the best Enduro rider that commencal haves, and a huge promise in DH) posted his new Meta with a pretty production paint job imo with headset routed cables 😔. So yes, no one is safe nowadays with this sh*t thing about headset routing...

If your axle and cassette aren't aligned then the derailleur alignment is the least of your issues! Its a worry when someone who is a bike mechanic has no idea.

How can a derailleur thats aligned to the axle be out of alignment with the cassette? I feel like people are trying really hard to crap on this tech, but it seems pretty dang dialed.

If manufacturers can fuck something up they will

Pretty sure the axle is the main thing holding the derailleur in alignment (I have one and installed it).

Hopefully this is not prophetic

Chris King is back in business. 6 hole option are now available. But only for 15/20x110mm front and 12x148mm rear hubs.... https://chrisking.com/?fbclid=PAAaaKlMwU7JBEkrLGZepIDCacGs6hjXpKqCM7Vbb…