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As I got a little further into the conversation, the host mentions something about the "new range of bikes" and Peter says something along the lines of "talking specifically about the LT..." That makes it sound like a few bikes rather than a single bike or a pair of bikes. I wouldn't call two bikes a "range" and I wouldn't have used the word "new" for bikes that have been out for a year already (the LTe and MTe), so that feels a little like the host knows more than the guest wants to reveal. Speculation continues. Also an interesting...

I've heard from a few different places their "ST" should be dropping sometime soon Corrected - “MT”

I posted this in the Suspension Component Technology thread but I thought it would be worthy of a post here. It's the designer of Yeti's Sixfinity talking about a bunch of different suspension designs, the engineering thought behind each, and talks about some specifics that a lot of other suspension chat sort of ignores or intentionally leaves out. He also mentions that the Four Bar Flex Stay works really well for an ASR and the Sixfinity works really well for longer-travel bikes. He also talks a bit about the Switch Infinity. He doesn't specifically say anything (yet, I'm not 100%...

As someone who is ~100kg, a lot of bikes do disintegrate around this weight when ridden frequently at the bike park. It's gotten a lot better than it was in the past but it still happens. Earlier this week I cracked the damper body on my DHX2 from JRA. Who does that?

It's a pretty rad system. My Vessel dh bike has 16mm of r/c adjustment in 3mm increments with an 8mm bb height adjustment that is independent of any suspension kinematics due to BB system design. It fun to mess with this stuff and not have it impact other areas of performance. Truely isolating the variables, as best as possible that is. Really help to hammer home how much the fc/rc bias really impacts the bikes ability to turn even if the wb is pushing 1350mm

I suppose the weight limit is just one more argument for them to refuse warranty claims rather than a strict limit, the bike is not going to desintegrate under someone 120kg. There is no mention of the adjustable BB in the geo chart, I can’t understand how companies can be so bad a communicatif basic info about their bikes

There does seem to be something there.

Cube just released a bunch of new bikes, the new downhill bike looks good (especially at the price) and it has a very interesting feature, it seems like the BB position is adjustable! It's a bit cryptic from their text but this is what I understand from their text and photos. It's the first time I see this https://www.cube.eu/fr-fr/cube-two15-slx-deepteal-n-clouds/1174600

It seems we're in the beginning of the reverse-weight-weenie era, in which bicycle riders will be asked to pay more and more money just to add grams to their bicycles.

My megapost on Fox Factory is up. One fun side quest I took in this one was trying to show how/why interest rates matter so much, and even built a little calculator everyone can play with. TL;DR, when the discount rate goes up, future earnings goes down and the TAM is sort of eaten, the stock price tanks. https://jeffbrines.substack.com/p/how-fox-factory-lost-a-decade?r=cfzd9…

I never thought this thread would require such a thorough education in EU insolvency/bankruptcy law...but here we are.

Update from Bike EU: The Amsterdam District Court has revoked the suspensions of payments of the Dutch Accell companies and simultaneously declared these companies bankrupt, the two court-appointed trustees announced this afternoon. The consolidated factory in Hungary has stopped production. There are six entities listed on the Dutch insolvency register: Accell Duitsland BV Accell Global BV Accell Group BV Accell Group Europe BV Accell Group Holding BV Accell Nederland BV

Thanks for the reminder, @sspomer , that World Champs are coming up soon. Along with that event, there are only 3 World Cup races left in the 2026 season. Here's a sort-of look at what's on the horizon: Downhill 2026 remaining schedule: World Cup - Les Gets - Qualifying Aug. 21, Finals Aug. 22 World Champs - Val di Sole - Qualifying Aug. 28, Finals Aug. 29 World Cup - Whistler - Qualifying Sep. 26, Finals Sep. 27 World Cup - Lake Placid - Qualifying Oct. 3, Finals Oct. 4 World Cup Standings Notes: ME: Williams leads with 874 points...

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Without diverting this too much, but adult on a full power eeb towing kid on lightweight kid-sized bike solves this problem better, as long as you're riding winch & plummet trails. Which is what a lot of the young rippers prefer. If you're doing rolling up/down stuff, then towing is less practical.

How did we ever have fun riding bikes as kids before batteries and motors? What a terrible childhood I must have had.

Latest insta posts he’s back to tagging YT..

One of the syndicate mechanics does these as a side hustle along with rotor guards - at Preorder stage currently and only for Saint cranks, unsure if the plan would be to offer any SRAM variants. g10prjct.com

A 4" x 0.7" diameter rod of tungsten would weigh about a pound.