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aaaaaand mountain biking shines brightly again. nskerb and veefour: you’ve just cut my screen time short for the day, so thanks in a way…does anyone here watch the YouTuber MTB Alan? He bailed on our hobby recently, hard to argue against any of his points. What assholes we are.

Guy with "middle eastern" background here, lets go back to mtb rumors...

I’m in the uk and my frameworks came Friday so they are already out there.

Could for sure. But generally speaking, if a manufacturer is outsourcing a portion of the process it's not because it's going to add costs.

Our fork crowns and axle lugs are sandblasted prior to Cerakote. We also polish tens of thousands of aluminum parts per month here at our facility that are then sent to an outside vendor for anodizing. I was just providing my experience as a manufacturer. I wouldn't be able to comment on what a supplier might charge. As a component manufacturer, polishing and anodize comes at a lower cost. Darren

It would actually be the other way around. While both are automated processes, polishing is much faster and cheaper as nearly all of the material is recovered and can be reused over thousands and thousands of components. Polishing aluminum components, Type II color anodizing, and powder coating account for only a very small portion of a product's COGS.

Not a good look for Gates. RemindS me of Some other bike companieS that have used Similar bully tacticS.

Gates seems to be turning themselves inside out to try to win this case via stacking lawyer fees and having bigger pockets. First they said the design they got from Spot wasn't any good so they had to fix it so they've already paid any royalties that would be owed. A federal judge dismissed that and sent it to a state court. Then - at the state court - Gates said that their contract with Spot regarding royalties wasn't even valid in the first place. The state judge dismissed that. Then Gates asked to delay the case and to move...

I love you all but can we please move the commuting talk to a different thread? Thanks!

I went with Onyx hook flange, heavy, but amazing. I’m absolutely sold on them, genuinely feel faster and the silence is beautiful.

I worked on advocacy for the 15 minute city concept, and can tell you that literally no one has actually proposed restricting travel. That idea is a "bUt OuR fReEdUmB" talking point aimed at people who do their own "research".

The sidewall logo looks like an AI conti

Next thing you know people will jump out of airplanes and trust their lives to some strings

Headlines...and Olympic gold medals, and World Championships.

On the Cane Creek website

Last week Berd announced that they'd broken the record for the lightest XC production wheel from a major manufacturer, with their HAWK30 Gold weighing in at 1022 grams for the set (without tape and valves). Now NOBL has raised (or is that lowered?) the bar again, with today's launch of their all-new Ethos series. These new wheels also use Berd spokes up to and including the enduro wheels, with the super-light Ethos SL180 set weighing in at 933 grams (both the Berd and the NOBL wheels feature 30mm internal width carbon rims). Today's announcement from NOBL: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/ultralight-xc-dh-nobl-intro….

Fixed it for you

And the floor is not 0, it's 2 million. God I hate graphs that are misleading by nature...

It wasn't that long ago that "15 minute cities" was the latest far right snarl word/term. It didn't hit as hard in Australia but it still comes up from time to time. I work in transport planning and the hysteria around it completely baffled me. How can anyone possibly delude themselves into believing that the idea of city planning based around safety and accessibility for all transport modes and users is some kind of grand (communist?) conspiracy? A bloke I worked with on a few projects once raised Elon Musk's ire on Twitter by calling out his nonsense. It was...