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Just spent 10 minutes reading about freehub preferences… Not sure if I can explain to a regular person how much entertainment value this holds for me🍿

Thank you all for the interest in our bikes and in our distribution / sales model. To give you a bit of context, we’re currently a team of 9 people at RAAW, based in Germany, and we ship worldwide directly from here. The US has actually grown into our biggest market after Germany, which is pretty wild considering that every RAAW in the US has been shipped individually from Germany. Our goal is, of course, to make the ordering process and ownership experience as easy as possible. Having stock in the US would be ideal, but that comes with a...

possibly the worst commentating performance in live tv lol. Dead fish have more personality.

@sspomer when is bikes unaffiliated leaning into typical podcast discussions of wild conspiracy theories? I mean how can the HT guy not be a plant by WBD to turn the whole fan base against privateers. It's obvious they are a safety hazard...

^^^THIS!!!

“The Formula 1 of bicycles!!!” If this crap is true about Hardtail Dude being involved in Wyn’s crash, then being off-pace during Asa’s run, how in TF is the UCI allowing this? Could Asa, Amaury, or Loic put a hardtail inside the top 30? If the answer is no, then there should be a minimum equipment spec to be able to enter. Most every sport that involves wheels won’t let you enter elite level races on garbage. If you can come up with the money to go the path of entering a WC Downhill you can afford a DH bike...

As much as I like Charlie's output, the use of AI images in thumbnails makes me scroll on past.

New thread live here pertaining to all things DJI + eebs - have at it!

I forgot Pinion uses the name Motor-Gearbox-Unit, here I am thinking everyone was talking about Motor-GENERATOR- Units 😅 I would love to see someone make a crack at harvesting energy from braking or the suspension - I figure it could be a small equaliser for heavier riders who would normally have much less battery range available And @jeff.brines maybe we do need an Avinox thread, I was reading through all this and thought it was the ebike thread.....😬

I'm not sure if this is an indication it's close to release, but Norco just posted pics of the dh bike ahead of Korea and it's got "Team DH" printed on the top tube. Would be cool (and make sense) if they went back to the Team DH name for the race bike.

Looks like Laurie to me.

Any chance we can take this ebike power rules chat to a new thread? A few pages ago it was fascinating reading about Alta's struggle and DJI's structure vs old school German power.

I clicked that video for a laugh and a trip down memory lane, but yo Laurie is straight up destroying on that old bike and flat pedals. Super impressive and entertaining riding on any bike. RIPPING.

That's why they are releasing this now: "Hey boss, can we start teasing the new goods? Not yet, gotta wait until thegromit orders the current version...."

All good questions. I'll raise another: licensing for a motorcycle (in Oregon at least) required attending an in-person safety class for multiple weeks and passing a check ride. Surely we're not going to ask 16 year olds to do all that to ride to 7-11. Or maybe we are? I agree that the jump in regulations from a bicycle (almost none) to a motorcycle (which is similar to a car in the eyes of the law) is pretty big. Like I said, it's currently the wild west and I'm watching with curiosity how the regulatory landscape develops around all these...

Not sure where to put this, and frankly a little bummed it's not already on the main page. Laurie Greenland posted a vid about what he's up to and hinted about future projects and sponsors. Stoked for the guy.

Build quality? Lifetime bearing replacement?

I always saw VPP as Santa Cruz's USP. If it's Yet Another Plain Old Horst Link, what am I getting other than the name that makes it exceptional?

I work on electronics as my day job. Having to set up a clean workstation, ESD mat, microscope, soldering station, etc in a bike shop seems like a nightmare. Plus having to hire someone who is qualified as an electronics technician. I don't see it happening. It would be nice if the manufacturers stepped up and were reconditioning these motors instead of throwing them away, but there is no profit in that, so it will continue to happen.