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I definitely dislike them on principal. Their legal team is deplorable. They once threatened to sue a bike shop called “ Café Roubaix” because reasons…

it's 4699.....USD also has ultimate coil With mavens & hs2 rotors.... Damn good deal imo.

national champs raw from friday https://www.vitalmtb.com/videos/features/vital-raw-u-s-national-champio…

USAC nationals pro start list.

National Champs DH course preview

I dunno, maybe it's not a bad idea to stay off of forums where people discuss racing until you've watched the race. It's a strategy that's always worked for me.😉

Being helped and treated right thru warranties is the way to earn my loyalty. The worst feeling in MTB is when your shit breaks. It makes it much more bearable when you know you can go home, send an email to get yourself sorted.

Looks like the wireless Fox dropper is just around the corner

Let’s get this back on track. Seen at whistlert

Do we know that the high end of the market is still healthy? Brands are still discounting high end builds quite aggressively.

How so precisely? The pod has possibly the worst ergonomics ever ( previous axs was nice ) Weak clutch Overpriced Overweight The main feature ( you can stand on it ) it’s completely useless as you never get side impacts but always front to back So far almost everyone I know that own it, and I work in a bike shop, has had trouble with it, either too much chain slap and had to run a chain tensioner pulley like the old dh bikes, or deralieur just broke down randomly, no signal, deralieur dead. While the warranty is great, still...

Update: https://www.instagram.com/p/C9vBM8zpw9s/ " Wow that was a big one for @kyeahern 🤯 but miraculously he’s ok. After some x-rays and CT scans in Vancouver we have confirmation that nothing is broken just a big bruise on his back and pretty banged up! Time for some rest before world champs in Andorra."

I think this qualifies as Innovation. If not, sorry. Interesting Concussion Prevention Tech @ 28:03. I have never heard of this device but it sounds interesting. https://youtu.be/q0daQB20P9Y?si=4tJQdPMGJ373dyc7 More info here. Q30 Sports Science: Science of Brain Safety

Still running the HPR50 motor You didn't see this here:

Beat me to it Primoz! They would have a mountain of rear triangles because of the insane failure rate of the front triangles from not 1, but 4 common points of failure. I can only assume production issues mean they went with the complicated pull link design seen on the prototype demo?

Cant wait till they're $1200 bucks on buy/sell

or maybe THE UNION gets 7-figure funding since they're doing better than most of the full factory teams 🤩

the status DH has a 180mm boxxer, not 200, FYI. not sure why there's a friday embargo if the bike's out in the wild for everyone to see and talk about

continue chainstay length discussions HERE as to not drown the tech rumors out https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/The-Hub,2/The-Internet-Was-Wrong-Short-… started in 2016, @jeff.brines ' "short chainstays suck" thread can live on.

Weird the ESTA is steeper in small, then slacker in m/xm, then steeper again in the big sizes. Usually they just say it's the same across the board or steepens slightly as size goes up. Must be for rear wheel clearance. As to the short cs/long cs thing, I'll just say I wouldn't want all brands to be on the short train or long train. Why should every brand go long? That would be boring. Options are better for consumers on the whole.