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"Designed to push the limits of what's possible on the roughest terrain..." Spec'd with EXO casings 🙃

I like to do all my speculation on the shitter.

I'm not keeping a spreadsheet or anything but I think I've seen about 4 or 5 now.

I don't know if the production bikes use metal or carbon "lugs" still but thats broken exactly along the lines of where the lugs were on the prototype bike. It definitely irks me this type of failure - you don't need to make production bikes that light and you are really risking your customers by not simply beefing them up a little bit or doing more/better testing. There has been far too many public breakages of these to be a coincidence and Pivot just haven't acknowledged that there is either a flaw in the design or their particular manufacturing process...

If I was Markus Flossmann I'd be doing everything I could to look after the Mob riders and staff just from a public relations perspective. If he wants to rebuild the brand then being seen to have done the right thing could be a good start .

would you say that you're...... pivoting away from them

Still in testing phase, Pivot simply prefers real world testing.

i would guess that there may be some concern about breach of contract if they signed to another team without being officially released from yt given the uncertainty of the brands future. i'm with you 100% that they've been put in an extremely poor situation not only not getting paid, but also potentially having to self fund the remainder of their season. If the rumors in the PB post shared by krabo83 are true that they are footing their own travel expenses, then it would be a really bad look for YT to leave their team in this kind of...

At least for this year the points are calculated at the end of October. So any rider on a team adds their entire years worth of points, which means mid season transfers count toward the new teams total.

Syndicate is there kissing hands and shaking babies for Fox

Hope it works out for YT and their customers. They make solid bikes at great prices. I'm interested in learning more about the org relationship between EU YT and YT USA.

if you wanna have some internet fun, you could discuss how Arena Group (bikemag parent media company) decided to sell off / shut down ridemonkey and the users ponied up to buy the IP and website, taking it back into private ownership.

Is it really a surprise that a top level rider like Vali could find something that quickly? There were probably several team managers trying to figure out how to sign her..

really great article. the DJI ebike and bmx re-painting paragraphs were fascinating. this one stuck out to me "Huseby said interest in 32-inch wheels is growing, driven in part by brands hoping to bring out models that are differentiated from old inventory. 'They’d like to have something they can sell at full price,' he said." wonder what kind of volume "something" is. neat that bigger wheels could be set at full price but will they actually sell in a meaningful way? seems naive, but i have no idea how any of all this works.

Lake Flacid?

I've heard from a reliable source that the track "exists"

Wow I can’t believe they showed that much of the track. 😂

I’d rather cut my face open than be a vegetable

Assuming YT weathers the storm and continues as a company, does anyone think athletes will sign with them in the future? Off the top of my head this is the third time athletes have been left hanging by them because the abruptly shut down their DH teams. Most notably Aaron Gwin, Dak and now this crop of athletes. Please correct me if I am wrong.