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Masjo Liked a reply to forum topic Shimano XTR M9200
5/13/2024 5:12pm
Although Dura-Ace and Ultegra Di2 were announced, it's incredibly difficult to find any stock. My local shop has one 'priority'/showcase Ultegra groupset coming this month but if they wanted to order another groupset it wouldn't be here until next year at some point (this is in Canada and my LBS isn't a very road-focussed shop). Dura-Ace is allegedly worse on the timeline and very few groupsets will be available until next summer-ish. Even on an OEM level, I have heard some 2022 bikes with Ultegra 11 speed are being upgraded to 12 speed Di2, but that won't happen for Dura-Ace...
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diatribe69 Added a reply to Shimano XTR M9200
5/13/2024 5:11pm Hello Shimano, anything? It's now 2024, SRAM called, says the lights in the SoCal MTB office have been off since 2018, nothing going on there.
diatribe69 Added a comment about video Danny MacAskill + San Francisco + Trials Bike = Unfathomable
11/29/2022 10:24am
Nothing outside the Edinburgh Castle Pub? Danny, you bawbag !
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diatribe69 Added a comment about press release Glide Outdoors Introduces the ROAM eMTB
10/3/2022 3:20pm
"A race to the bottom" is a race that an eMTB brand should *not* want to win.
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diatribe69 Added a comment about press release Specialized Releases New Gravity In Line Collection
5/24/2022 10:36am
White apparel = one-time use
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diatribe69 Added a comment about video Nate Hills Flirting With Death on Colorado’s Palisade Plunge
11/12/2021 3:00pm
Next up: CGId sponsor names in the mountainside!
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diatribe69 Added a comment about bike check Racer Only 1996 Specialized S-Works m2 (1st MTB Olympic rings color decals) only 50 made
11/9/2021 9:45am
Rear derailleur cable housing but no cable. Wireless shifting in 1996!?
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diatribe69 Added a comment about press release 2022 Alchemy Argos Ti Hardtail
10/7/2021 9:53am
We need to be more clear about slapping the "Made in the USA" tag on the BIKE. Bikes should come with labels like cars, which detail exactly where the major components are made. In the case of this bike, one could argue that it's not really American, as everything except the frame is American-made. There are a lot of American companies represented here, but let's not get too jingoistic about 'Murika. Fox, for example, used to be "Hecho en Watsonville." They've quietly moved most production to Taiwan.
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diatribe69 Added a comment about video RandyTV - China Peak California Enduro Series
7/23/2021 1:48pm
I'm stating with 99% confidence that the tandem riders (~13:40 in vid) hate each other and wanna ride solo, but keep on doing it for the attention and the guaranteed podium, as there's only 3 pairs of riders doing tandem enduros in California (based on my super-scientific anecdotal poll). Only 50% of the riders on a tandem bike are having any fun.
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diatribe69 Added a comment about press release Cam Zink on Why He Uses CBD
6/14/2021 3:04pm
Yes, placebo is real.
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diatribe69 Added a comment about press release Specialized Introduces new Renegade, Fast Trak and Ground Control Tires
6/9/2021 2:53pm
Are the S-Works and Control casing graphics different?
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diatribe69 Added a comment about feature Santa Cruz CEO on the State of the Bike Industry - The Inside Line Podcast
2/24/2021 10:39am
I never understood this dichotomy between mom-and-pop and not-a-mom-and-pop. I looked up Backcountry.com and found: "Backcountry.com was founded in 1996 by Jim Holland and John Bresee. The two started the online business ... from their garage in Park City, Utah." When does a business go from mom-and-pop to not deserving of empathy? When they make a profit? When they have more than one store? Doesn't every mom & pop want to be more than a mom & pop? I doubt mom and pops choose to remain mom and pops, unless that means selling your soul to some nebulous corporate devil.
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diatribe69 Added a comment about product review Stumpjumper
10/13/2020 2:29pm
Huh? You can still get a Stumpy EVO or Enduro if adherence to FSR is a must. Just like on the Epic, this was done in the name of weight savings at the shorter-travel end of the spectrum.
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Allen_Gleckner Liked a comment about product review Is This the Benchmark Trail Bike? The All-New Specialized Stumpj
10/13/2020 2:28pm
gotta differentiate: 34 Stumpy, 36 Evo, 38 Enduro
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diatribe69 Added a comment about press release MDE Introduces Brand New Carve and Updates the Damper
9/21/2020 11:13am
I wonder if this is the company that had the Carve trademark that forced Specialized to change their Carve to the Crave?
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diatribe69 Added a comment about press release Pivot Launches the Phoenix Dock Tool System
5/18/2020 10:29am
"However, many hidden tools take longer to access then [sic; should be than] actually completing the repair." Obvious knock on Specialized SWAT stuff. For the one or two times I need to acccess my tube or pump, I love that everything is tucked away in my Stumpjumper's down tube. I, for one, don't want my tools exposed and out in the open. They're tools. I don't keep my jumper cables in the front seat of my car; they're hidden in the trunk. If you access your tools so much that you need them in a handy location, it sounds like...
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diatribe69 Added a comment about feature What Do 10,000 Mountain Bikers Think? Vital MTB Audience Survey Results and Market Trends
11/5/2019 12:41pm
Well, it’s not a good representation of the bicycle buying public at large. For example, were you shocked that a large majority of Vital readers race Enduro?!
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diatribe69 Added a comment about press release Full Details Released: Specialized's Brand New Enduro
8/13/2019 3:32pm
oh boy, the derivative bike slam is getting old. i think we're 10 years past the point of bike design where everything is pretty much going to look like everything else. saw another post where the dude must've bike checked like 15 brands. ok dude, so you have awesome observational powers and memorized the entire Wikipedia page on Kinematics, wow.
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diatribe69 Added a comment about press release Full Details Released: Specialized's Brand New Enduro
8/13/2019 9:38am
sounds like you just sold yourself the S-works!
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diatribe69 Added a comment about feature WINNING BIKE - Loic Bruni's Prototype Specialized Demo
6/12/2019 4:49pm
Either prototype DH Specialized Butchers or the BLCK DMND Butchers, which you can get now.
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