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It relates to 6-bar and 7-bar link suspensions, sixfinity and sevenfinity for example.

In honor of the 1000th page, we should vote on the best meme of 2025: 👍🏻 for “Crab” 👎🏻 for “6-7” edit: Carcinization is the antithesis of innovation. Maybe we should keep crab talk on the crab talk forum and keep this thread focused on MTB tech rumors and/or innovation.

Great to hear! The new back end is actually being tested this week by new team riders in a secret location...This picture was taken last week at the Belgian Cycling Factory, this is Dale McMullen (Nukeproof Lead Engineer) and Steve Jamison (Nukeproof Product Manager) discussing the new back end with a new rider (you can just see his foot)!

Haven't seen this posted anywhere. From a Japanese site. Hello, this is Kayaba Corporation. Introducing the new suspension we've developed for e-Bikes. Rough roads, wet roots, rock-strewn trails, no matter how harsh the environment, Kayaba's new e-Bike suspension gives the rider peace of mind and enables them to ride as they wish. This product is based on motorcycle suspension technology and has a design optimized for e-Bikes. By precisely controlling friction and damping force, the tires grip the trail firmly and provide high traction performance in all conditions. It uses low-friction oil seals and bushings made in Japan, and the...

finn on the new prototype specialized does anyone else hope the derailleur is fakeNews?

Well, the master cylinder has a similar enough silhouette to some of the TRP's but that seems to be where the similarities end. The styling is unique enough when you look closely. Caliper is definitely different. Interesting bleed port placement

Oops, similar situation TQ HPR60 search and Yeti's new eeb just popped up.

Elena Conolly on what appears to be a new Habit. In Frame Storage and probably a bit more Travel 160f/150r i guess

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=…

Here is what I drew up, it has a pretty high anti-rise, axle path is rearwards for around 2/3rds of the travel. all the fun stuff

does fahkeet (or whoever came up with crab link...sorry, i forget), get a free forbidden for doing their marketing for them?

gonna play devil's advocate x1000 here about levo speeds with the explicit mention that i don't care if anyone anywhere buys one, i would NEVER buy one (who has nearly 5 figures to spend on a bicycle with or without a motor???), i'm painfully aware of the wrench this class 3 stuff throws into trail advocacy, i fully expect 87.69% of levo owners to be rallying illegally in class 3 and i fully expect downvotes to go skyhigh, but... i own a toyota yaris (maybe 97mph top speed). a mid-life-crisis guy in a neighborhood down the way owns a ferrari...

Me to forbidden after owning a druid 2 and they embraced the crab link convo from vital forums:

Forbidden went full gas on the crab link

Carbon rear also ?

really want to believe forbidden saw the crab link convo in here and gave us a little nod with this one.