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https://www.trekbikes.com/cn/zh_CN/自行车/山地车/越野山地车/procaliber/c/B312/ Looks weird to me...

while i agree that many riders often have "more" bike than they need for a given trail, i'm not sure if this comes from a desire to be "overbiked" or just that many riders have one bike. they need it to cover many different kinds of terrains and difficulty levels - which results on inherently being overbiked on some trails.

not quite a softtail but a kinda original way to suspend the rider without needing the isospeed decoupler. geo is also getting revamped

Trek really trying to make soft tail a thing.

Two grip shifts on each side, left hand for high-speed and low-speed compression, and right hand for high-speed and low-speed rebound.

You've got it wrong. This is Scott, if you remember. High/low speed compression and rebound will be easily accessible externally, via handlebar mounted, cable actuated remote.

I may be no enginologist, but I'm pretty sure that damping is the act of turning kinetic energy into thermal energy. That heat has to go somewhere and stuffing the shock into an enclosed space will limit both convection and radiation. Is cooling reduced enough to matter? Open question, but shocks for sure get hotter in this configuration. Do we think this configuration was cooked up in the quest of performance, or in order to make MTBs look more like road bikes?

Can confirm that the coil shock inside of my Ransom gets unbelievably hot and stays hot for a while after a long lap. Ive noticed some slight fading on the Ohlins shock I had in there but the Rockshox Vivid coil seems to do a bit better. Debating getting a second cover to dremel some vents into to see if it helps at all.

Re: the Shimano hub design--I believe they found that they couldn't profitably manufacture it in large quantities while still maintaining the necessary tolerances for the design to work reliably. Or at least that's what I recall hearing. Seemed like a cool concept at the time.

22k for a prototype frame isn't insane when you consider what production carbon frame molds cost.

Alternate ending: Rider shrugs and heads back up for more laps. Rather than endlessly fiddling with shock settings, they just get used to how the bike rides. They get faster, more confident, more faster, more confident. Lap times tumble, the confidence is there. Come finals the heavens open while they’re waiting to drop. Other riders scramble, calling Jordie asking for wet settings, stressing out. Our rider looks down at the frame, their fate sealed just as the shock below them. Shrugs. They couldn’t do anything even if they wanted to. They drop. The confidence. Bike and rider as one they...

i'd love to hear a podcast with an explanation behind every stupid solution they adopted on their bikes, especially with an interviewer that tries to talk some sense into them

I saw them at park city a few weeks ago. One of the pivot owners. Must have been escaping the AZ heat. He said no plans to commercialize the carbon lugged mule, it’s just for prototyping (sad!). Apparently costs like 22k per frame or something crazy. Looks amazing in person. Had a 38 and an X2, no high pivot, had what looked like shortish chain stays and didn’t appear super slacked out, but tough to say for sure.

6 Bar lugged firebird

I guess the Yoke's on us......

They were going backwards when they made the bolt heads T30 Torx…

They’ve been going backwards for years with all the integration bullshit

So we're all correct, it is a yeti/pivot/evil. Just a Chinese knock-off version. *this is a joke, I don't want another lewis v trickstuff argument.

Richie would get top 5 on a 2015 Stumpjumper