All

It looks like they borrowed the guts from a Shimano pedal to make this prototype. The markings on the spring adjustment look identical to a PD-M8000

Wyn’s latest video shows off the Yoshimura clipless pedals quite distinctly. Certainly an interesting design. A better view than the photos shared from the Peeb a few pages back.

The pedals are from Fraezen, another german brand. Intend does have some pedals in development, similar to the OutlierMTB ones. I posted about it a few weeks back in this thread:

Canyon teases a bike release tmrw, new sender I’m assuming. https://www.instagram.com/reel/DJRp-lWMwVX/?igsh=MXFkajJ2cXZubDNiNw==

I'm betting Dakota Norton is gonna be in the booth.

It would be a pretty big conflict of interest for Martin to represent both the team and Asa as a rider in contract negotiations. That depends on the timeline of when Martin stepped aside as Neko shifted to more of team manager and less a rider role.

Just a random internet fan, but in the episode covering Asa on S3 of Red Bull Race Tapes I got the sense his parents, and especially dad, are pretty involved in his career and that they sacrificed a lot to help get him the opportunities to showcase his talent racing (and I think it is just awesome to see that). Wish him nothing but the best, and the photo of signing the contract on the tailgate is fucking awesome.

Obviously, Martin has been a wizard in the MTB world. However, Dad might recognize that Martin has his fingers in many pies and that it might not be the best for his kid. I think it’s simple as that. Sometimes people see too much emotion when it’s just facts. I feel like Dad - honestly don’t know him - has had a plan for Asa all along and it’s working to perfection so far.

Some interesting comments on Asa’s contract signing Insta post, first is the UCI saying he will be elite this year, but probably a typo from the social media manager: Second is quite interesting for me, as Asa’s dad states that Martin will never be his manager, seems a little offhanded since Martin had a lot ties with frameworks:

As in "I'd schnackseln them cheeks"?

Here is a crude linkage mockup.

It looks like they're using the seat stays from a sommet or vt-01 I'm also guessing it's basically the same as the gamux 4+2 bar proto spotted earlier this year, but low pivot flavoured. 4 Bars to have baked in anti-rise, anti-squat, and axle path, then 2 bars for leverage rate. They're getting very popular these days.

Saw this on Pinkbike website Intends new ''OnePiece'' fork, Cornelius said on a video the pricing of this fork will be over €3000,-!! Also Intend showed their brand new Hover Monocoque shock, the shock body is now a one piece construction. Looks like Intend will also adding a dropper post to their line up soon.

So the rest of us don’t have to search:

Would love to continue this conversation here: https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/drivetrain-talk Lots of exciting drivetrain stuff coming out next month so we can totally nerd out.

Here's a (what looks like to be) an alu capra Mule that Texi is on, it's a screen grab from a yt video.

That is a Microshift derailleur.

Rob warners latest video of a factory visit to hope In the last part of the vid he shoves his camera close to the back of the bike, and then says "oops lets not zoom in too much" Not sure if he hints at the brake or the derailleur, is that the new saint derailleur or another brand? Also, the brakes "GB4" not a brake currently in Hopes lineup afaik, so is that possibly the new name for the ones spotted earlier in this thread? The ones with a bleed port in the lever?

First round of the ewsdr or whatever they are callling it this year next weekend and the course map has been released. Around 100km and 3100m of climbing over 2 days so looks like they are going back to bigger days out again.

Sorry to be that guy, but it's "moot" point.