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From the other site. Someone at Sram is having a chuckle

New Norco plus new Vivid Air out in the wild. No products listed... yet... https://www.sram.com/en/rockshox/series/vivid-air

working on a g-out project from national champs (full gallery up later), but these two photos caught my eye w/ the chain slacked out between the idler and the front chainring. is that common? i don't feel like i've noticed that before. it's such a short gap to see significant slack like that. i guess i shouldn't be surprised considering the abuse DH bikes get put through.

it is my educated opinion, after looking at the photos, overlaying in linkage, assessing & comparing the kinematics with my extensive catalogue of images of Sam Hill, numerous CAD reverse engineering and plugging the outputs into my google supercomputer I have come to the conclusion that BIKE LOOKS FUCKIN SICK!

Okay, based on a pretty close approximation (distortion in the photos makes it a real pain to get accurately) here's what I can tell: - Very progressive leverage rate; more similar to the Aurum HSP than the Range, so the rate of progression increases through the whole travel, but more progressive than Aurum before the sag point (people tended to sag very deep into the Aurum to make the most of the extremely progressive end-stroke because of the high-leverage, linear beginning of the stroke, so this might help a little but it is still probably somewhere between 35-40% progressive). **edited...

I bet this thing eats chunk for breakfast, lunch and dinner!

Not adjustable

Spotted that new Prototype Pyga HP DH bike in the bike abuse video from Val Di Sol

probably going to have 900mm reach and 1200mm chainstays

Man, if only there were a forum thread dedicated to this topic. https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/The-Hub,2/How-Much-Reach-is-Too-Much-Re…

Fair, Im only really looking out for myself here, at 6ft im only just above the average height aswell so most bikes are within my range but the larges were getting a bit to long. I feel for the really tall guys who may get their reach number OK but then brands screw you on the stack, Some brands cant even get stack right on the smaller sizes aswell.

THIS. My 2021 XL Meta is only just big enough for me and now they have completely removed anything remotely close to that size, cutting out a part of the market that they previously offered to. Small people have bikes that fit them, why can't tall people? Ofc progressive geo doesn't suit everybody though - in my eyes the best option would be to offer more sizes within the same overall range. But that costs the manufacturers more...

Hi, I’m Ricky Bobby! And if you’re a bike company and your size large has a reach longer than 480 then fuck you!

on my AM29 I had 34.9 dropper and some racers are going down in travel, rys verner won in Leogang on the Druid, Jesse Melamed was riding the Spectral for the first two rounds.

New white 36 too https://www.commencalusa.com/commencal-meta-v5-essential-2-c2x40031843

Meta V5 is out, 160/150 bike

Both are more powerful than MT5s and you can still use whatever pads you want. If you want best bang for your buck brakes got to go Hayes.

wet-ass-egai.

Yt tues with a idler

The shock mount seems slightly repositioned on the strut to be a little lower (less progressive) and you can see downtube storage - seems like the same prototype leaked last year on the other site.