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So Danny Hart is the World champ of Norco, is gonna be interesting to see him in Champery World champs..

they just went through the 40 pages of rumors here and sent it 🤣

I dunno if wb is brilliant or stupid or brilliantly stupid but I’ll be here to watch the whole shithouse burn. In the meantime, an invitational Redbull series could be siphoning viewers. Seems like crankworx could simply add a really we’ll produced enduro series and boosh: wb lost money. Maybe that’s not how it goes, maybe there is some crazy high level production and wb flips World Cup dh into an incredible (tv centric) product and prints money selling it back to Red Bull or NBC, and maybe just maybe it’s for the better long term. But either way, I’m...

The real question is, what about mechanical options?

Happy to make the list with OTB, it's all still a learning experience and a side project for me. Always interested to hear what people are enjoying though!

Or the current one maybe.

As a taller guy who runs too many headset spacers with a 50mm rise bar and high COG, I'm really interested in these. I'm not sure they'll hold up, I'm an axle bender and thin pedal axles have never survived long. The standard bearings should be an easy swap when they inevitably toast themselves. But I'm dubious that they'll hold up given the amount of leverage on those bearings. I'll try them if I can buy a spare left axle from day 1. Say it's a 15mm drop from my existing Scarabs. That's 15mm less rise on the bars/spacers, 15mm...

Same lol. I've always wished for a flat pedal with angled pins so that when your heels are dropped, the pins are perpendicular to the ground. Don't know if that even contributes to better grip but I really wish somebody would test that theory.

Poorly Made in China is a good read that touches on that as far as manufacturers making what is asked of them, wild variability among manufacturers, cultural influences on that, etc. People, mostly in the US it seems, like to yell about China but made in China doesn't automatically mean 'bad' or 'garbage' any more than made here in the US automatically means 'good' or 'quality'. There is definitely a range there then between rip-off, homage (if you feel have a more charitable mood), a riff, innovative thing with quality revolving around on who is making it, who actually designed...

Not that I have to tell the crowed on this form anything, but once again I get irked with people who try to pass off cheeper "knock offs" as just as good as the real thing because "they are all made in the same factory." I mean, they probably are, but by paying for the actual product instead of the knock off you're also paying for the engineering (and marketing) that goes into the product, and at least the engineering portion of it is worth paying for. Granted, if you genuinely can't afford it and its your only option then...

I guess the ink is still wet on those.