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Downtime mentioned how widespread the breeden bar ends are becoming, with people like Bruni, Pierron and many many others using them. Owning a pair, having recovered from 2 broken hands (left then right) in 3 years, I've found they definitely live up to the hype and really helped with arm pump and security of my weak hands on the bars. The bar ends are a much more interesting innovation than I originally expected, because they significantly change the biomechanics of the upper-body while riding. Stopped by the Orbea pits this weekend and they've cut grips down (pretty sure it was...

Yesterday I spoke with a guy who rode a couple of EDRs and would always ride xtr mech since forever but he was on a sram. He said not only the chain slap was unbearable on the new di2 xtr but he would also drop chains pretty much daily, to the extend the top of his crank which cought the chain became all scratched... The shifting was absolutely amazing but the reliability is horrible and he also noticed shimano sponsored enduro pros would run full dh chain tensioners or STFUs just to keep the chain on, which is mindboggling how...

What about leaning the bike with the wheel/tyre against the car's wheel/tyre? That way even if you sit on the tailgate and move the body, the wheel doesn't...

Not trying to be argumentative but I do completely disagree with that first point. Quake... MAYBE, but anybody wanting to race I think will look elsewhere. The bottlerocket is blatantly marketed as not a race bike. I guess the status DH isn't talked about but I think its a sleeper sick bike. Maybe because there's one at my LBS that's for sale for 3k out the door. The industry needs as many cheap aluminum double crown bikes as it can handle. Bike park laps on these types of bikes is in my opinion the purest form of the sport. Just...

The serial number on the pic can be read as "1270890-0002-T" which translates to Description: Bomber Z2, 29in, Marzocchi, 130, RAIL 2.0, Sweep-Adj, Shiny Blk, Neutral/Gloss Blk Logo, 15QRx110, 1.5 T, 58HT, 44mm Rake, YG, AM I suppose the lowers might be from something else.

They're starting a company and building a factory to get to 30 million electric motors per year by 2030? Per year? 30 million? Is this a joke? Should that be billion? I work for a moderately small automotive supplier in freaking Slovenia and we probably make more than a million electric motors from our designs, by components, in a year. I'm not taking into account all the small DC motors from the likes of Johnson which are a commodity. I'm talking about stepper motors and BLDC drives that are similar to what's in ebike drives. Is the state of manufacturing...

Article on Pinkbike is up. Mullet alloy park/freeride bike for Brage essentially.

Quite the AI stuffed into this little whip.

Saddleback enters administration... https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/major-uk-cycling-business-saddleback-…

I know pedal bikes are an afterthought when it comes to making money in the bike industry these days, but I was wondering if the concept of model years has proven to be an obsolete model in the bike industry. It feels like a few big brands have steered away (Transition and some others I can't think of.) I wonder if model years are still worth the squeeze of offering something shiny and "new" to the consumer at the expense of needing to discount inventory that doesn't move. I feel like since the bubble pop of '23-'24 its a better...

Love the photo dump format. The pictures are also nicely crisp and detailed. Thanks Vital team. (Please bring back the background music haha).

Neko / Frameworks video about the 32"

Are you prying at the seal on the inner or outer ring contact point? When it comes to mine (and my wife's) bike, I am trying to protect the main bearings like this:

Ongoing / unresolved "me problem": I like my brake levers' bite point to feel the same left/right. Of course, my left arm is weaker than my right due to being right handed, so the right lever always feels easier than left. I tend to progressively wind out my right brake levers' contact point, since that makes the bite point feel sharper. Over time, the measured bite distance discrepancy builds up - the other day I measured my right's to be a full 1cm further out than the left. Then my OCD for making things matchy-matchy kicks in, so I reset...

My experience with the South Korea World Cup. I thought driving was easy, especially with the blue and pink lines on the road at interchanges and the Naver nav app worked well. The food was pretty good and had one Korean BBQ that was outstanding. Definitely get a bed in your room which I did and heard from others that didn't that is was not good. Did see the ominous black trashcan in the restrooms which by the clogged nature of the toilet (not plural) at the finish line, no one else did. No other restrooms at the finish line...

Damn, this is RAD. Full Honda DH team vibes from back in the day. Here's a first taste of what Antidote Solutions is bringing to the downhill racing table now, and we will have more info including the technical details to reveal at the Loudenvielle World Cup. Fun times ahead! First team news release: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/antidote-solutions-enters-w….