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Hadn't encountered the phrase "RTFM" yet. Thank you for sharing this gift with me.

please don't respond about geo to this (or even respond at all), but just FYI, you can easily compare bikes and their geo in our product guide. here's a quick one i put together between a dreadnaught, firebird and sb165 - new bikes are being added all the time. https://www.vitalmtb.com/product/compare/64471,64876,50471?sizes%5B%5D=…

not much of a hardtail nerd but these are pretty neat

"tell me you started riding within the last 5 years without telling me you started riding within the last 5 years." all joking aside, yes its an older compound. while a good compound, definitely not used as much anymore, as maxxis has since released better offerings.

What about chainstay girth? Too far?

Came here to see some new tech news but all i got was a bunch of opinons about chainstay length no one really cares about.

vital raw from today. INSANE conditions by the end of practice and neko bringing fun back to the pits!

To be fair, it's also possible that competitively priced and highly specialized manufacturing will pop up in the U.S. at enormous scale with armies of knowledgable, specialized non-immigrant workers in the next month to save us from these high costs. That's all we need. Well, that and in-country raw material extraction for materials that often don't exist in our borders in the quantities we need, like bauxite, rubber, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, etc. But if we can figure out those two aspects in the next month we'll be fine.

As a former recipient of the award, I hereby nominate TEAMROBOT for 2025 VitalMTB Commenter of the Year.

I feel a lot of people haven't encountered Bizutch before. He is never wrong and your the idiot for thinking otherwise 😂

What do you mean baby a long travel rig? Have you seen what material gravity race bikes have been made from for the last........10 years? I've seen more catastrophically broken alloy bikes in that time, and Pivot/Santa Cruz customers just plain don't want Aluminium anyway

redacted you say? Interesting. sounds crab-like.

A question for the peanut gallery: when your saddle height is too low or too high, you grab a 4mm allen to loosen your seat clamp and adjust your seatpost up or down. How much do you adjust it by? I'm a micro-fiddler, typically adjusting seat height by less than 5mm. And I notice it immediately. My body is incredibly creaky and tight and not flexible, so having my bike barely out of position when pedaling is really noticeable, annoying, and eventually becomes painful. For bike fit, I have a very small optimal setup window. Why bring this up in...

specific thread for dropper post discussion started here. https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/dropper-post-insertion-depth-length…

I want to know what this is for and why I didn't think of it.

It's clearly to change bar flex characteristics mid-run. Maybe if you were an elite athlete like the rest of us here, you'd understand these things.

I tried to block Jason on my Vital profile page but he still has my cell number. Can you help?

I recently crashed pretty hard and managed to get some severely bruised ribs, so thought I'd share my experience with chest protectors etc. I was wearing a poc vcd at the time, chest protector didn't do shit unfortunately. I think it'll stop a tree branch impaling you or something but that's about it. It's only a level 1 protector, so to be expected really. The back protector has worked well a couple of times but nothing crazy. Sidenote So I decided to order a new setup, especially considering crashing seems to be my party trick. I didn't want any vest...