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Brings me no joy, but it sounds like Revel may be turning off the lights.

Thank you. I'm surprised that's where they assign the majority of the value, but good to know.

Did a little bit of searching on this and the USA Customs and Borders Protection actually have some rulings on this and consider the bicycle frame to be the main part of a complete bicycle and therefor the defining part for the designated country of origin for a complete bike. So if the frame is made in mainland china, painted in Taiwan and then assembled in Vietnam it would still be considered as Made in China product. https://rulings.cbp.gov/ruling/N302992 https://rulings.cbp.gov/ruling/735368 Regarding Canada, we have a Trans-Pacific free trade agreement but that includes only Vietnam, Malaysia and Japan. China, Taiwan, Indonesia, Cambodia...

Does anyone know what is considered a substantial transformation on a bike from a customs standpoint. I would assume that importing all the various raw components and then assembling the finished bike would be considered a substantial transformation. In theory could you not then import all the raw components into Canada (no tariffs from any bike industry countries), setup a warehouse where you do all the assembly of the bikes and then import them into the states under USMC also free of tariffs?

Since the last Trump tariff battles in his first administration, more and more bike stuff has left China. Santa Cruz has largely switched to Thailand for their frames, at least what I am seeing in the US. This is pretty recent so I’m not sure if it’s a total swap. They have historically been built in the skybox composites factories, who make several other high end brands. I don’t know if they switched mfgs or just moved or expanded locations. Lots of other higher end mtb stuff is in Taiwan and Vietnam. Some brands don’t bother publishing, or including on...

You are correct. The 10% baseline stays in place during the "pause". As to your second point, I'm not sure who can afford more pain. I am one of those people who believes China is in fact in a (much) worse position than tjhe US from a government debt, currency and demographics shift perspective, but Americans won't stand for the level of pain Chinese people are culturally willing to tolerate. How does this turn out? Well, there is a greater than 0% chance it ends up something like this...

I thought the wear marks in this pic were interesting

If you listen to the most recent needles podcast w/Gwin he had no plans to race the first WC and only plans to race 7/10 this year

Is this the linkage end?

BK says why not have a light frame, not sure the warranty department will agree with him. Seems an odd goal to go for with a modern DH bike, sure make it not a tank, but weight weenies aren't buying DH bikes.

Peak bending moment occurs at the axle end of the seat stay. This snapping is unrelated to the flex stay if it's happening at the linkage end. Looks like it's a compression failure in the tube that wouldn't be fixed by adding.the bearing. Also given the brake mount location the actual angle change on the flex stay is negligible and the 6 bar description is more academic then actually measurable. That said I've not modelled the kinematic myself.

to MSA: ~15 hours from snowshoe, ~5 hours from Lake Placid. Whiteface's brand new track is going to have twice the elevation as the snowshoe track, and it isn't even starting from the top of the mountain, IIRC about 2/3 the way down. it's great that snowshoe's village is right in the midst of everything, and I really enjoyed that aspect when I was there for the WC. but Lake Placid is definitely bigger, and there is more to do. even if you have to take a shuttle to the race venues (XCO is held at a different facility than...

You were probably eagerly waiting for another company to step up and enter the pedal/stem/bar market, here you go (some sarcasm detected): https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/leatt-enters-components-cat….

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=…

SB140

I’m a big proponent that steel hardtails should always have adjustable dropouts also so they can be run single speed.

The latest Michelin Wild Enduro MS tyres reminded me of supertacky, sticking to the floor when the bike had been sat for a while, flinging rocks up and generally being very sticky.

Super Tacky isn’t used much anymore outside of the Wetscream. Essentially it’s the stickiest compound from MaxxGrip, but only that without the firmer base and center compounds.