Might have to bust out the steering damper for this one. So sick!

Also: CHARLIE SPONSEL SIGHTING? Team Robot, what's your take?

Year of the Twenty Ninnaar

I gotta say Greg Minnaar does look more proportional on the 29er. As a 6'-3" clydesdale myself, who looks huge on a large Tues, proportionality does appeal to me...

Fearon's drift at 2:57.......dang!!

trying to thumbs up your comment 50x, but i can't : )

Company claims to keep known crank who disagrees with modern bike design as designer, new bike looks different but has same ride problems as everything he made in the past. news at 11.

Looking at the suspension graphs, there's more here than a shock tune. The rear suspension...more

Now that review makes far more sense (looking at the numbers) than the garbage review from Pinkbike.

One thing I would say is you guys need to get a midget tester who can ride the medium because I couldn't ride that thing with its 130mm head tube. Well maybe with a flat bar...more

Wow, I missed the price till the end. Unreal. Never a better time to get into the sport.

I've been loving these reviews, and there is some pretty good insight into the bikes.

However, I think there's way too much focus placed on the chainstay length in reviews these days, and the affect it has on a bike is rather ambiguous. Especially since in these...more

I'm an atheist in the school of chainstay length. The chainstay is part of a system, different parts of the bike come together to make the whole. I have no doubt that there are great stubby stay bikes as well as lengthy bastard stay bikes. You caught me here. I was...more

Cheers, Headshot!

The reviews here are some if not the most thorough in the mountain biking media. I like that you all break stuff as this is something few reviewers readily discuss. The literary and historical references are fun too. I am long time Joseph Conrad fan and I hope to...more

Really enjoying the Vital reviews this year. I take something away from each one and find I can use them to interpret my own bikes behaviour. Plus the dry, rocky trails are more like home than the loam we often see in bike reviews

it does pump a little more oil- the piggy back shocks have a 12.7 (1/2") shaft where the inline shocks have a 10mm shaft. Bigger shaft = more oil displaced.

Thanks, Dave! Always nice to get comments from one of the guys designing such rad components.

Consululted Miss Cleo about my hamstrings did you. Well you're...right. I've never touched my toes in my life. Interesting tid-bit there. You'd have to have hamstrings tighter than mine to be deterred by the wide seatstays and that is going some. Sign me up for...more