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

Looks to me like they both use the Matchmaker design. Which is a good thing, IMHO. Dialing in ergonomics with MM is less fiddly than with any of the iterations of I-Spec.

2 Chainz spotted on Finn Iles' story? My brain tells me it functions in a similar way to that zoceli vysoko.

Are these the rumoured Brembo brakes, would make sense as they are already sponsored by Ohlins?

Did you get those launch coordinates from a group chat you were recently added to?

Watched a guy at the Monster Pro DH in Cat 1 snap his top tube ripping through a 90 degree berm. Irony being he didn’t realize it. I heard it clear as day & was telling people around me “I just heard his bike snap”. He hits the 3 flat hucks Neko built to “break test frames” & on the 3rd one the down tube made a crunch sound & that was it. Said he’s had it for 2 weeks. JRA !

This guy unionizes

If I were a betting man, it's because they thought that dropping something like that just before a race would leverage WBD/UCI into giving in. If you air a grievance too early they could have used it against the teams in selection of wildcard teams. If they waited until after those teams were announced but did it any earlier than now they'd have basically given the WBD/UCI folks enough time to just not make a statement and make the athletes sweat about what the response would be. At least at this point the athletes can posture like "without us there's...

Looks like the Forbidden eMTB (I'm assuming) will be 'landing' at Sea Otter.

It is actually an RST - that bike came through my shop for some quick set up and it was nothing like anything else I've seen. I seem to remember the compression damping had a million clicks from super soft to basically locked out. No idea whats in side them but felt smooth enough to be serviceable?

I'm aware, and have an understanding that 90% or more of riders have no business touching high speed compression or rebound knobs. There are many suspension company's making fantastic stuff for cheap. Suntour, Rockshox, Marzocchi and X-fusion all knock it out of the park with close to $500 suspension products for every day riders from XC to freeride. I love my Z1 and rarely do I find it unable to keep up to my 38 Factory while it does double duty on a hardtail on the same trails. And the Domain has been a reliable smasher of a park and...

I always assumed they were kinda like SR Suntour and made parts for others primarily. It seems like with all these alternative suspension companies (not Fox/Rockshox and maybe now Ohlins) there success is tied to how easy it is to get replacement parts and talk to someone internal directly to answer questions. If a non-mainstream company could have their whole parts inventory easily accessible and always in stock and answer emails quickly, I think they could do well if the product worked even decent and there costs were reasonable.

Where does RST keep coming out of? They seem to pop up every 7-8 years trying to break into into the high end market again. Are they bigger in Asia or are they a manufacturer for other brands and keep taking swings with their own line?

Word on the street is they can all be an S Works motor with a firmware update from your friendly local dealer… just minus that “m sport” badge which will be available on ebay soon

Your URL hackery is weak, son. I have no single idea what the shock could be. Fast? Chickadee? A non-shit x-fusion?

Pro Men's Top 20 - tight times with Asa laying it down. 1. Asa Vermette 1:52.019 (Frameworks Racing / 5DEV) 2. Ryan Pinkerton 1:53.061 (Mondraker Factory Racing) 3. Tyler Waite 1:53.369 (Yeti Fox Factory) 4. Luca Shaw 1:53.386 (Canyon CLLCTV Factory Team) 5. Richard Rude 1:55.665 (Yeti Fox Factory) 6. Aaron Gwin 1:55.816 (Gwin Racing) 7. Antoine Pierron 1:55.846 (Commencal Schwalbe by les Orres) 8. Neko Mulally 1:55.922 (Frameworks Racing / 5DEV) 9. Christopher Grice 1:56.605 (Gen-S) 10. Dante Silva 1:57.015 (Intense/Monster Army) 11. Colton Peterson 1:57.019 (Specialized Team) 12. Jonty Williamson 1:57.061 (Yeti Fox Factory) 13. Cole Suetos 1:57.293...

It's Sam and Matt's glasses company