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rokkitan Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

2/18/2025 7:31am
I have edited my post and removed the shudder, so now I can get an upvote ;-P I know e-bikes are contentious and can sparks long discussions, so let us keep that out of this rumor thread. (I will still stand for my opinion.) I love than we have a proper rumor thread and look forward to finally getting mechanical Transmission for my Yeti ARC frame.
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SteveClimber Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

2/18/2025 7:30am
batteries are round, seatpost is round, put round battery in round tube. Until that is achieved, I will suffer with my tiny bit of cable going from my head tube to handlebar.
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LookinForIt Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Team Rumors

2/15/2025 10:41pm
No yeah for sure the posts have worked better than just about any other sponsor announcement. I also found myself considering Rev Grips for the first time in years... Especially because I built a fully-rigid late last year and am obsessed with it 😅
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sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk

2/14/2025 8:17am
bernard's christchurch quali day video - many mentions of how pedally the course is, definitely rocky! sidenote - the way @Sven Martin talks about tree padding with needles, this crankworx course has about 6 pads on the most random trees.
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Atkisa Liked a reply to forum topic Vital MTB Forum Hot Seat: Joe McEwan, Starling Cycles Founder

2/13/2025 8:13am
It'd be interesting but time consuming to repeat this test but with increasing weights from 1-20kg I'd have thought that deflection vs weight will plot a curve. My instinct would be that steel would be a lot more linear than carbon or aluminium and so the differences would be more pronounced at lower weights before converging somewhere at a higher weight.
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DontWorryImAPilot Added a reply to Vampire Bikes

2/12/2025 9:44am
"...always ride like you're on a big bike" is exactly what I was meaning when I said "worst of both worlds." If the range of adjustability is lower, how far away you move from ideal is lower. A 120mm and a 140mm bike can have similar use cases with similar chassis tuning and similar geometry. A 160mm and a 190mm...

DontWorryImAPilot Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

2/11/2025 8:24pm
Yep! Gearboxes are THAT BAD that we'd rather put up with all the faffing with chains. j/k. The truth is I've never ridden a gearbox and have nothing against them. I just like making jokes. I'm down to try one as soon as they end up on a bike that I'd be interested in buying, in a price range I...

dwhere Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Team Rumors

2/11/2025 10:18am
Shout out big privilege, he's a good dude. Always up at mountain creek, just a normal dude that likes riding bikes (with a rap career). I love that it he brings representation for a minority in our sport.
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iceman2058 Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

2/11/2025 8:08am
Pivot officially introduces Lifetime Warranty and a Courtesy Bearing Replacement program: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/pivot-cycles-announces-prem…
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dantecusolito Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

2/11/2025 7:47am
I wondered the same, but there may be less of an effect, because the driving frequency is not constant and unlikely to match the resonant frequency, and the links only approximate a flexible object, meaning they can only oscillate at finite points (every 1/2 inch), rather than being able to form continuous waveforms. The finite length of the links effectively forms a high pass filter, where any oscillation with a wavelength shorter than 4 links becomes impossible. All this goes to say is that yes, offsetting the STFU from the center point of the chain will probably have a favorable...
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DontWorryImAPilot Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors

2/11/2025 7:46am
I can with 100% certainty say you're incorrect. "We're all better for it." is immeasurably short-sighted. I only typed that thing up because I didn't want the poster to feel like I was making a judgement on him (or anyone else). It costs me nothing to make sure the people who haven't earned any sort of negativity from me don't...

DontWorryImAPilot Added a reply to Vampire Bikes

2/11/2025 7:07am
I can see this bike being really cool for someone who wants an enduro bike and a park/downhill sort of bike. 165mm travel to 220mm travel is wild. Even 165mm to 190mm. I wonder if something similar is possible in a shorter-travel sort of way? Would it be possible to have a 120mm - to - 150mm travel potential? Or...

DontWorryImAPilot Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk

2/11/2025 7:02am
I had thought the system could be tweaked to protect the riders and help the riders hold value they can negotiate with: Teams keep half the points earned, riders keep half the points earned. Let's say Ronan Dunne gets 1000 points next year and gets an offer from Max Commencal, he should be able to take points with him. Mondraker...

DontWorryImAPilot Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

2/11/2025 6:52am
Regarding the position of the STFU: A length of material spanning a distance at tension will have a resonant frequency. Cutting it right in half with something that would contact the material can cause it to resonate faster at the same velocity on both sides of that contact because that contact essentially creates a point around which the whipping motion...

DontWorryImAPilot Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors

2/11/2025 6:14am
AND fewer people on trail! j/k...just a joke about motivation and the stereotype that weed detrimentally demotivates people. Weed isn't a problem, I like to make jokes.

bmxconan Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

2/9/2025 1:18pm
Sam Reynolds - Aon freeride team rider 🤘https://youtu.be/SdzELx3sOtk?si=2_a599N55fCACdJr
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I've rewatched the runs, Other than the drop, Asa is a smoooooth criminal, I watched a bruni run from last year and they are very similar. Jackson is quite active trying to generate speed due to him being a lil guy 🤣 We Gotta talk about how good Matt jones did and how much hes progressed, what about theo and his Stoke attitude... matt Has really generated a good following lately and watching him progress in Queenstown has been amazing to watch
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boozed Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

2/8/2025 2:48pm
This is one of the stranger uses of a Sankey diagram I've seen... What is it even saying?
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SteveClimber Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

2/8/2025 2:47pm
Imagine the look on his face when he finds out people put gigantic shake weights in sky scrapers to mitigate earthquakes
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