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DirkT Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/14/2025 3:10pm I don't think anybody would expect anything different. I think the point is that SRAM parts are obscenely expensive relative to buying the whole. I don't know if these are representative, but Lost Co came up as my first google search so I'll go with that. Eagle Transmission Derailleur - $400 Eagle 90 Mechanical Derailleur - $190 Cage Assembly -...
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DirkT Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
7/21/2025 4:11pm Gosh. What a heavy 24 hours in this thread! As somebody who only checks in every couple of days my emotions have been a rollercoaster over the past 20 minutes, reading through all of this. Jeff - Thanks for both the knowledge and your openness. You just hit me with a dose of "same!" I feel like a guy that...
DirkT Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/15/2025 2:02pm Why? What problem are you trying to solve? The beauty of the Rocky System is that you have both your pedaling power and the e-motor power acting on the same chain. It's quite a simple way of getting power to the rear wheel. What you're describing you have a motor acting directly on a chain, and then somehow you have...
DirkT Added a reply to Suspension Data Acquisition
10/1/2024 5:29pm I see what you're saying a bit more clearly now. 1) You have a point. If you leave the MI system running across flat ground or with a bunch of dead time, it does alter your results. You need to start/stop with some degree of promptness. 2) You're assuming that people aren't looking at the raw data! It's very easy...
DirkT Added a reply to Suspension Data Acquisition
9/26/2024 4:16pm @Snfoilhat - I don't really understand what you're trying to say. First, I think it is accepted that there is a degree of error in most of these systems. Mounts flex. Electronics do their thing. There's going to be a degree of error. On your other point. Are you wanting these systems to tell you how to tune your bike...
DirkT Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
4/15/2024 3:23pm The hub/brake mount junction looks really weird to me! But perhaps it's just the angle.
DirkT Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
4/15/2024 2:50pm What's going on with the fork here? From Pinkbike XC coverage.
DirkT Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/11/2024 11:45am You can learn a lot just by looking at the assembly diagrams for Fox/Marzocchi. Bomber CR diagrams can be found here. Note, it shares certain parts/drawings as what is called the "2011 Van RC" Float X here...can't find the Bomber Air, but those two shocks share a lot of parts as well. And, DHX here. Which shares a lot of...
DirkT Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/7/2024 11:32am I read that Linkedin post. Or at least the first few paragraphs. I can't believe there are people that actually communicate like this. I was employee #2 for the SIGNA Sports United ("SSU") North American cycling business unit and signed on to build a vertically integrated network of business segments across owned retail channels, owned brands, and owned distribution. The...
DirkT Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
12/16/2023 3:00pm New grip coming?
DirkT Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/16/2023 2:26pm I think what bothers me about all of this 4-bar/6-bar conversation is that it feels like mountain bikers have decided on a series of terminology, ignoring the fact that there's ~100 years of precedence in linkage design. People use linkages to do all sorts of things. There's very specific terminology around them. For the most part, that terminology (as far...
DirkT Added a reply to 2023 TEAM RUMORS
1/12/2023 2:58pm On the Roskopp podcast...not exactly Team Rumours, but one could argue he's talking about starting up a new "Team" in the form of a company, so I'm going to go with it. My interpretation was different from @bulletbass man It was interesting that he compared his contract with Pon/Santa Cruz Bicycles to his contract with Santa Cruz Skateboards. Of course...
DirkT Added a reply to Specialized and Outside (Pinkbike, Beta etc) Share Same Investment Company
7/18/2022 2:36pm I think that a citation is needed here.
DirkT Added a reply to Tailgate pad and tonneau cover
5/2/2022 11:24am I had an Extang Tri-Fold on my Tacoma, and it worked pretty well with the Race Face Tailgate pad. There isn't a lot of foam on the top, so it fits under the Tri-Fold with no problem. The top of the tailgate on the old gen Tacoma is a bit recessed from the top of the bed though, which might...
DirkT Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/28/2022 4:03pm Not a lawyer, but once you pay money for an item, the manufacturer loses the rights to what you do with that item. Scratch the logo out...put your own logo on it...throw it in an old drum and light it on fire. You paid for it, you do what you like. Where you can get in trouble is if you...
DirkT Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
2/10/2022 3:15pm Crank Bros. still have a bunch of "twin pair spoke collection" wheels on their site. Lots of different Cobalt and Iodine models. https://www.crankbrothers.com/collections/wheels But if they didn't...most OEM suppliers will make anything you want. I'm sure Crank Brothers would be happy to dust some old designs off if the Porsche money was large enough.
DirkT Added a reply to 2022 Mountain Bike Team Rumors
11/3/2021 8:24am He basically took Trek along with him to Miranda. I don't think you'd have to dig too far to find that Trek was probably pretty heavily involved with finding him that spot and making that deal happen. This is the shitty thing about rumours too. Jackson is one hell of a marketable guy, with huge social media presence and skills...
DirkT Added a reply to 2022 Mountain Bike Team Rumors
10/23/2021 4:09pm Nothing ever seems to be Zinks fault, even when it's something that he does all on his own. I'm more curious about the sponsors that have stuck with him for such a long time. If I'm a bike company, why would I want to sponsor the guy that has done several questionable things on social media, and seems to pretty...
DirkT Added a reply to 2022 Mountain Bike Team Rumors
10/18/2021 5:31pm I would imagine the payoff for Orbea is having their name plastered across however many episodes of a Pinkbike reality TV show, not on what the winner does the following year. That's probably just the thing they have to promise to secure the sponsorship. I mean...did anybody really expect anything real to come out of that whole thing? Results are...
DirkT Added a comment about blog post SR Suntour is Honored to Welcome Tayte Proulx Royds to the Team!
10/18/2021 5:25pm
There's a lot of awesome going on here.
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