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There may or may not be a new bike in development. I can neither confirm nor deny. But if you're in the SoCal area there's always a chance you'll see us on the trails riding or testing something we're working on or playing with. Development never stops with us!

Good eye. Yes, that was a conscious decision. The higher starting leverage ratio gives good small bump sensitivity and an active feel off the top of the stroke, and on an Ebike that tradeoff makes a lot of sense. We actually had 3 proto mules all with different suspension designs and kinematics to help see how all of this felt and where we could use the motor to our advantage. The pedaling efficiency argument that typically pushes engineers toward a lower starting leverage ratio largely goes away when you have a motor doing the work. So we were able to...

Ha, you already know we looked at everything! Avinox is doing some wild stuff and honestly respect what they have pulled off here. But for the Tazer, it wasn't the right fit. Power to range is a real tradeoff with that system, and beyond that, big torque and wattage numbers don't always automatically equal a great ride. We were super intentional about this...the Tazer needed to be an all mountain bike. The Bosch system gets you the right power at the right time, and that's actually what makes a ride feel good. Trail access and Class 1 compliance in the...

TeamRobot, always love your input and questions on all the forums so I'm stoked to get to chat about this. So, lets start with offering both wheels options. This was actually an internal debate as I'm sure it is with most brands. Ultimately we came to the conclusion that giving our customers the choice will always be the best option. There are people who are very opinionated on what they want and we want to try and give everyone the option they prefer. It's not always as easy of a task or cheap as people think but we want people...

What's going on everyone! John Hall here at Intense Cycles. Stoked to get to chat with everyone about the new Tazer. It's something our whole team at Intense has been working on for a very long time and can't wait to bench race with you about it! Fire away!

Also grip strength is, like most things, strongly correlated with body weight. A “light pull” for Dale is probably not a “light pull” for me. (Hence all the forum hoo-hah about how the A1 Mavens are either unridable due to an inhumanly stiff lever feel or just fine.)

Yes and no. The amount of brake torque applied to stop a rider from a given speed to a desired speed is not the same for different weights. We are going to massively simplify here and assume everyone rides the same on the same tires, rotors, pads etc.. In the graph below the 3 horizontal lines are a gross simplification representation of the torque needed to slow a rider of that weight down. The 3 lines represent 3 styles of brakes - the black line needs a very heavy initial pull but ramps extremely quick ; the red line needs...

Yeti's MTe also has a removable TQ battery.

Thank you all for the interest in our bikes and in our distribution / sales model. To give you a bit of context, we’re currently a team of 9 people at RAAW, based in Germany, and we ship worldwide directly from here. The US has actually grown into our biggest market after Germany, which is pretty wild considering that every RAAW in the US has been shipped individually from Germany. Our goal is, of course, to make the ordering process and ownership experience as easy as possible. Having stock in the US would be ideal, but that comes with a...

Eeww! I got a pretty good one for you. So I'm converting my old homemade 26" DH bike to 27.5" to give to a friend's son. (If the son ever gets it away from his father...) It's a second gen Santa Cruz Bullit swing arm on a steel front end. It's got modern geometry from before it's time. The drawing says "Atherton style." because they were the only ones doing long, low and slack at the time. I'm just making new bolt on dropouts to fit the bigger wheels and we'll put a 27.5" fork on it. So today I...

I bought an EXe when they first came out and bought a second battery at the same time. Back then, you could purchase a second battery for a couple hundred dollars more than the range extender. They weren't really anticipating people doing this. You had to separately buy all the brackets to attach to the battery to attach it to the frame. I think the pricing spread has moved substantially. If you ride places where it's common to cruise back by the trailhead during the ride, this setup is amazing. I also picked up a power station on black Friday...

Yeah, I still really like my Nebo Peak with the Ride60 drive unit. Mine started making a grinding noise pretty early on, but it was warrantied and replaced before it ever died. The replacement drive unit hasn't had any issues. I wish I had the newer, slightly larger battery. But I can get ~20 miles and 3,500' without being too conservative on assist. I assumed Ride60 was a dead platform, but I heard there's at least one more new eMTB coming out with it.

Without any kind of fast charging available the Bosch SX system paired with the 400wh is not making any possible sense, just go CX / 600wh and detune to get better range at this point. TQ HPR60 with the 580wh is ahead of the whole SL segment, we need more bikes with this system.

I'm pretty sure you're right. The axle position on Kolb's bike is clearly lower than the original, which would correspond to a 27.5 rear.

If Richie Rude uses a steering damper I don’t even know if what im doing counts as riding a bike