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Pretty sure these builds exist to outfit bike parks with their rental fleet for the year.

I'll also add, there's so much dogma in the bike industry, you can't do X because it has such bad Y...etc. We're not totally impervious to this thinking, but with this project we made it a point to actually test these assertions and sort fact from fiction. An example, from the start I felt we had to do a 20mm axle because everyone says so, it was Darren that commented how much it sucks to get a new fork and then realize your wheel doesn't work with it. So we tested and found the diameter has much less influence compared...

I am in the engineering department at Push, and we're all big fans of the Vital community! - Matt I guess I should prefaced that manufacturing comment, before I get the "my buddy owns a casting shop and ..." 😂 So for starters there aren't many magnesium casting suppliers in the US (probably because of safety issues 🔥) but funny enough there is one just down the street from us. The problem with most US manufacturers is size, difficulty, volume, and capacity all have to align before they are interested in any new work. In my experience this is fundamentally...

Yeah this fork that was ridden at 35mm stanchions for years is suddenly hot garbage because reasons. (marketing depts told me this is the truth)

The lower leg casting price seems to me little overblown issue, if formula as relatively small manufacturer can sell complete lowers for 160euros, I don't think it's that crazy. I know part of it is they share lowers between multiple forks but overall numbers still must be fraction of what RS produces yet lowers for lyrik or pike cost almost double.

That’s Ellie Hulsebosch with Syndicate.

The biggest problem with hexloc was consumers complete inability to understand how to remove their axle despite being demonstrated live and in front of their face several times. I can't see a company like Fox adopting it because even though it provides superior stiffness at the same weight, customers are too stupid to make it work. Source: the utter misery of selling bikes that came stock with hexloc axles.

I mentioned a few pages back that some dude made some assinine comments and got shut down hard. Since then he's been downvoting everything he reads. If I could ban him I would but he'd just start a new membership like he's done already. #Asslife.

Here we are thinking that Shimano is releasing the new Saint cranks soon. But what they are actually going to sell us is a “Saint” sticker to slap on a crank of our choice for $300. Modern Problems. Modern Solutions.

Isn't Orbea releasing a DH bike soon?

They’re just giving gold stanchions to their World Champs. It’s that simple, no conspiracy. Just gold for gold.

There are a few reasons why we haven't done crowns. 1. To be honest unless you go really wild with offset, it's an adjustment you get used to and no longer feel. I've gone back and forth between 50 mm offsets on my trail bikes to match my DH bike and then 44 mm offset on my DH bike to match my trail bike and found it takes less than a day to get accustomed to the change. I actually spoke with the guy who did the Outsider adjustable crowns about this and he had the same experience. So to...

Calll it crab can then

If Daprela felt he had a case for unfair dismissal you would think he would have taken legal action to the teams himself. The fact that he has built his own private program says a lot. Action, consequence.

You're missing out on the fact that the teams are private businesses and they don't have to hire anyone. If they don't want someone with potential baggage, that's their prerogative. Given that racing is essentially done exclusively for marketing, it's no surprise that the big teams are taking a pass on him. There's not some grand conspiracy trying to hold back your boy, just businesses doing cost/benefit analysis to what he'd bring to their brand image.

I can hear the Motörhead all ready!

George Brannigan retires from racing. Let's hope some nasty shreddits are in his future!

Looks like an awesome event.

So Horst Link = Crab Link Linkage Driven Single Pivot = Faux Crab Link High Pivot = Spider Crab Link Single Pivot = Rock Crab Link VPP & DW = Blue crab Link Hardtail = Lobster