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i think he was making a joke about old vital slideshows LOL.

I'm with the comments, if only a photographer or two could go around the pits doing 30s interviews, then they could play them over their photos in some kind of slideshow. If they have nice photos but no audio, then just play the same muzak track for about 15 years. I can't believe no one has tried this before.

It depends on what vibrations you're trying to damp. If you're trying to damp the natural frequency of braking bumps, then I think mounting to the sprung mass is the clear pick. If you're trying to damp the natural frequency of the tires (tires are a largely undamped air spring), then mounting to the unsprung rear triangle would make sense. The seat tube is about 450 cm away from the rear axle, whereas the fork-mounted TMD is sitting almost directly inline with the front axle, so the front mount is in a much better position to damp suspension movement than...

Are some of you even fans…? Dude’s in his 40s and podiumed arguably the gnarliest race of the year. Thought he retired a few years ago?!?

I would be on a ShadowCat right now, as would my GF... If they weren't like 6k to start. And secondhand ones go for like 3k minimum. Pivot has a lot of great aspects to their bikes, aside from the kinda weird sizing/size down thing. I'd probably ride a medium for their models, not sure.

picked up a Blur with a 120mm Pike this spring to compliment my 160mm Bronson, and have ended up riding it probably 70% of my rides this year. you certainly lose out on top end speed in the chunk, but tbh, it's so much faster everywhere else and so much fun riding a bit more on the edge. I used to be a fairly die hard hardtail rider so will admit its in my wheelhouse, lol. Great for keep the skills honed for when you jump on the longer travel rig!

Yeah seeing Kona give up on 27 with the redesigns and even Marin is doing frame size specific wheel sizes now instead of full range... I've just accepted dual 27 is basically done. It's basically just gonna be MX for smaller sizes, maybe a dual 27 for smalls here and there. So i'm gonna have to take whatever MX style bike that isnt enduro/AM and just live with it. I mean which I will happily do that Stump was a BLAST and I wish they basically sold it in MX config isntead of... I guess you have to simply buy...

Not only am I absolutely looking into DC bikes now, but with the way the market is going I might have to get a DC bike going forward to keep the wheel base short and keep the bike playful fun and poppy. That said, I absolutely LOVED seeing that Norco Optic come out in MX because that sets a precedent that I really need the industry to set as a possibility. Even if I will likely never afford that specific model of carbon only Optic. SHORT TRAVEL MULLET IS VALID. I also demo'd a mulleted version of the new Stumpy...

He will take Benoit Coulanges in the team as lead rider 👌🏼

our enduro fork test sesh is live. 7 forks tested. PLEASE COMMENT THERE, NOT IN HERE. https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/whats-best-enduro-fork-2024-enduro-fo…

A couple of weeks ago I saw the a frame with a carbon front triangle, it had the same massive pulley above the chainring as the prototype. Looked production ready to me

It would be fun to get more data for sure, but I'm lucky to get to ride 1-2x per week and don't love burning it on an experiment day. This is a trail system I typically take my wife/ daughter/ or newbie friends to so it's not my favorite to say the least. When I hit a more typical trail around CTX, I'll get about 125' of elevation per mile, which isn't a lot compared to better locations, but it's also insanely chunky the entire time. Not to mention 111' yesterday! However, this easy test loop is only 191' in...