All

You're conflating wheelbase and rear center length. If you shorten the front center of a bike, you can lengthen the rear center without increasing the wheelbase. "Long rear center" bikes are not necessarily bikes with long wheelbases. Also, to reiterate what's been said a thousand times — a medium Hightower has a ~1.83 ratio of front center to rear center, an XXL Hightower has a ~1.98 ratio. Those might as well be entirely different designs given how completely different the geometries of the two are. Now, if you assume the 1328mm wheelbase of the XXL is proportional to the rider...

A $20,000 electric bowling ball. Don’t ever change Specialized…

I can't help but wonder how much of the TMD is a placebo effect.. The Pink Bike article that left 2 riders not being able to tell a difference was interesting.. Factor in the mud fest they're dealing with this weekend combined with the wide variation off hits they see, what do you tune it for? I think James Stewart summed it up best.. Racers are mental midgets. If they believe it's faster, it will be.. We've all heard Jordi talk about how simply wiping down a shock made it feel way better to some riders..

They need to sell some DH bike before Jackson smashes the season on a production bike and everyone is left wondering why they need the new specialized thats been years in the making, but all jokes aside who's buying the Demo these days with all the other good bikes on the market

FAFO might finally get to them because Outlier has a patent on drop pedals 🍿

Why? The hole is their second best feature, it makes them super comfortable and grippy. Also, fuck lewis.

Lewis doing Lewis things.

I've received emails from most component suppliers that they've raised prices 10-15%. Others who didn't send notices seem to have raised prices quietly. New product launches and updates are often price increases in disguise. The owner of Revel bikes was on national radio a few days ago saying that they'll show tariffs as line item at checkout, kinda like sales taxes. Beyond Revel, the story was of how US businesses who held off on price increases during the 90 day negotiation period are now resigned to raising prices if they want to remain viable. I've seen a few European bike-biz...

Not sure how that's going to work. I broke a lot of those old knucklebox Diamondbacks (almost every single one) because all of the shock force is channeled through the center of the downtube at a 90 degree angle where the link mounts. Tubes are great in tension and a little bit less great in axial compression (along their length), but really really bad when you put a welded stress riser in the middle of a tube and push perpendicular to it. They rode great though, because they had a nice rampy leverage curve at a time when most trail...

Like a ~2010 Diamondback.

Well at least it's not just a diaper hiding a standard horst link setup. Can't quite figure out how the rocker link drives the shock.

Ari with no diaper

Hiding is creating hype

It seems like ARI is also working on a new Enduro, or it is one frame that fits DH and Enduro together...

Chatter on new designs releasing just makes people avoid buying the current models because they are waiting for the new ones to come out. The more they prolong releasing new bikes, the more other brands will scoop up that market share from the previous brand loyalists who didn't want to wait 6 years to buy their next enduro bike.

New Boxxer has integrated Ochain in the air spring.

DVO has some excited news today the exclusive Cone Valve technology from WP Suspension is now widely available for consumers comes stock on their Jade,Onyx and Topaz products. In the past the only way to get this was buying GasGas E-Bikes.

Just a reminder that the actual conspiracy is SRAM selling heavily discounted electronic groupsets to component integrato... I mean "bike brands" knowing that consumers will be on the hook for their shitty, high margin proprietary batteries and chargers. Nothing says improving the environment and sustainability like planned obsolescence and more e-waste. Social Responsibility btw: https://www.sram.com/en/company/about/social-responsibility

Nope. No mountain bike skills to be found on the WC DH circuit... sheesh.

" The only time every racer doesn't look the exact same in a pic is in practice or a crash. We're coming back full circle to being skiers on bikes again" Incorrect