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they are about to, but Conti will call it xyzzy or some shit

Maxxis and Continental make radial tires?

Radial tires from everyone but Kenda, should create some more skus in rubber, but I don’t expect to see any new treads- except for 32 in tires , which will be weird looking. All new e-bike motors will all have gearboxes, freeing the high pivots but also improving the mid and low pivots : should see new framesets sooner than expected Sea otter, eurobike, and even bespoke already happened so most of the years “hot shit” is already out Shimano still won’t release new saint.

Finn for a hat trick.

That’s as safe as betting that the Tech Rumors thread will be derailed in the next half hour.

This is the midpoint of the Downhill season, race 5 of 9. Here's a look at where things stand: Notes on Current Elite standings: Elite Men standings: Only 12 riders have earned points in each of the first 4 races. Oliver Davis, 25th in the standings, is lowest ranked among riders who have earned points in each race. 3 of the top 10 Men in the standings have earned points in only 3 races. Finn Iles leads 2nd place Amaury Pierron by 41 points. No Elite Man has earned at least 100 points in every race. Elite Women standings: Only...

Shut the fuck up about drivetrain efficiency. Holy shit. Go find a different thread.

It's not the bearing. It's the chain wrapping onto and off a sprocket. With a small idler, the angle each link has to rotate is very large. And it's happening in the taught part of the chain unlike the rear derailleur. But I've explained everything in my original long post. Now this debate, besides being offtopic, has serious vibes of trying to explain things to @seanfisseli, so much so I was convinced @Trocko might be an alterego. Looks like I was wrong about that one 🙂

I typically use the climb switch once per ride. I like to turn it on halfway up the climb when I remember I have it and might as well use it. I tend to turn it off halfway down the descent when I’m puzzling over why my suspension isn’t working. I suspect I am not in the minority.

Ten years ago, I would have agreed. I don’t anymore. We’ve talked about this a lot in this thread, but bike design, and engineering more broadly, has become increasingly commoditized. Amflow’s bikes are not good just because the motor is good. They are good because we already know what works. Geometry is free, and there is not much left to protect on the kinematics side. I'm not saying there is no gains left to be had, but draw the line. Rate of change matters. They made a bike that is good for most riders, and if they want to go...

I don't know. Perhaps that's the price you pay for a literally half price high performance bike - no warranty and limited aftermarket support. As an enthusiast I've kept up with DTC Chinese stuff for years now, and it seems anecdotally people are left out to dry when it comes to warranty with the exception of very, very few brands. The usual response seems to be something along the lines of "sure, we'll warranty your frame, but you need to send us your old one to our shop in Shenzhen completely arranged by you, and you need to pay shipping...

I think this is the thing that has changed most over the last 12 to 24 months, maybe longer. The idea that you need a Western brand to “vouch” for a product’s quality feels like it is starting to break down. A lot of our stuff has been made in Asia for a long time, but historically it was still driven by Western product management, with engineering coming mostly from the west, but also from the companies making the stuff themselves. What seems to have shifted in the last few years is China’s ability to understand the core user and...

I wonder if some of the big cycling brands "survive" by being bought by Chinese capital as a vehicle into the rest of the world/brand credibility. We've already seen this in a somewhat small scale in the automotive space (although not so much in the US Market compared to Europe, so you can simmer down Americans) and I can certainly imagine a world where this happens to something like Trek. Maybe Chinese brands will have no interest in doing so when they can undercut traditional brands by about half, for now, if they want. On the Cannondale note, maybe it's...

Losses from bearings are extremely minimal and not noticeable. ~0.1w. The losses in an idler bike are coming from forcing the chain to articulate under tension. Most mtb riders probably have somewhere between 5-10+% loss from the drivetrain (chain). Those losses come from making the chain articulate under load via internal chain friction. Forcing that extra loaded articulation I would expect losses to increase by 30-50%. So your typical dirty oiled mtb chain goes from losing 20w to 30w at 200w chill pedaling load and only gets worse from there. 5w increases are generally considered noticeable. The only thing you...

Some do and some don’t, the important thing is knowing which one you’re working with 😉

Also works for threaded BBs

Thanks to this thread I have learned that torque wrenches don’t work anti-clockwise… but I was able to find a workaround when installing a new UDH this afternoon.

Hey! Enough of that! That post is clearly meant to be in the Clever Bike Solutions thread. This is Dumb Bike Problems.

I don't have big legs or a nice jawline, but I have absolutely filleted myself after looping out on hard dirt using clipon pedals and trying to manual. I wasn't getting anywhere with it, so I threw down hard on one occasion and voila! Instant loopout. Dude, that still hurts.