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Are any bikes other than e-bikes selling at close to historical numbers? I think this dealer might be mis-diagnosing what's going on. Looking at who's out on the trails, the ~130mm bike's sweet spot has always been the casual rider who wants a chill experience. These days those riders are on eebs. This kind of goes back to Jeff's monster analogy. I have a different take than he does. Human-powered MTB has become niche and ebikes are where the market has moved to. The market is fine, the monster is still there, it's just changed.

i was gonna go with a title that rolls off the tongue like 'Jeff Brines megathread for riders who want to understand the bike industry, and general economic advice regarding the market too'

1. I've always left other spokes where they're at in terms of tension, and re-tensioned the replacement spoke until I seem to have found the sweet spot. I try to avoid touching the other spokes unless it's absolutely necessary, because my operating assumption is that spoke tension was great in the wheel until that one spoke broke, so I should try to fix the one problem without creating new ones. I'll only touch other spokes if there is no tension I can find for the replacement spoke that brings the wheel back into true/round/dish, in which case I would assume...

Big fan of the Osprey Raptor 14 here.

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I didnt put it in the original post just to see the reactions haha https://www.rczbikeshop.com/ Here it is. But there are some catches, the real deals are sent via email, at the bottom there is a subscribe button but they must either confirm each one manually or have set a long delay due to the demand as a friend said few days ago he had to wait for several months before he started receiving emails. And a second thing, shipping is really expensive... (not long ago I ordered a pair of 35€ shoes and paid 20€ for shipping)

I bought a lyrik fork, maxxis tires, and pedals from jenson a few months back and the pedals were the only thing in real packaging. As others are pointing out the bike industry has a lot of parts to move at the moment, the fork and tires I got sounded like they were destined for complete bikes for some brand but the demand just wasn't there.

Sounds like Death Note for bikes only works if they buy a pair.

Get a Speshy ebike for yourself and a Trek ebike for the lady and REALLY test the universe...

I had a Tues on order that went on a deeper discount. I sent an email to CS and they refunded me the difference. They had my money for about 1.5 month before the bike shipped. (3 weeks ago) I seem to have knack for buying bikes from companies that are about to tank, Nukeproof ate it right after I got my Giga as well. I'm not really too worried I think YT will pull though this.

275 or 300? My opinion is get both.

I ran a 300lb spring on my 2015 at 190lbs bodyweight without kit. Also, the longer shaft shock has a higher shaft speed (lower leverage rate) deep in the travel which creates higher than normal damping, so don't over spring

god dammit, are emtbs going to be like every iteration of the iphone?!?!? I gotta raise my credit card limit....