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I mean, it's not that confusing... 😆 2014: Easton-Bell Sports sold its baseball and softball division to Bauer Performance Sports ($330,000,000) 2014: Race Face buys Easton Cycling ($?), Fox buys Race Face and Easton Cycling ($30,000,000) 2016: Easton-Bell Sports sells Bell and Giro (and Blackburn) to Vista Outdoor ($400,000,000) 2020: Rawlings acquired Easton Diamond Sports from Peak Achievement Athletics (formerly Bauer Performance Sports) ($?) 2022: Vista Outdoor buys Fox (the other Fox) ($540,000,000) 2023: Fox (this Fox) buys Marucchi (whose logo looks like Manitou and name sounds like Marzucchi, which is how people frequently mispronounce Marzocchi –– which they also...

shoutout to @CascadeComponents for the being the group member we all wanted in those "beloved" school group projects, cool to see you show your work. p.s. if you were to build a long shock link kit for the stumpy 15, would you build it with high or low anti rise? 😂

The key difference is where the main restriction actually comes from. With something like the Charger 3, the flow path leading to the shim stack is restricted, so that restriction effectively sits in series with the shim stack. With the ZETA Tune Adjuster, the ports and the fluid paths leading to them are sized so that the shim stack itself remains the main restriction in the flow path. There are always open ports, and the ports themselves are non-restrictive until the flow reaches the shim stack opening. When additional ports are opened, they essentially add another flow path in parallel...

First up, thank you to the Vital team for presenting our product here! Since a few questions came up, I wanted to chime in and clarify a bit what we mean by the Tune Adjusters. As @Slavid666 analyzed pretty much spot-on, the High-Speed Tune Adjuster changes the port configuration underneath a non-preloaded tapered shim stack. With each adjuster position, one additional port is closed off, changing the hydraulically loaded area of the stack. The shim stack itself stays exactly the same, but the way it is loaded changes, which therefore changes the slope of the resulting force-velocity curve. That is...

LSC should be controlled via a needle assembly, isolated from the base valve shim stack. The underside of the base valve piston has a ring shim that is supported by a wave washer which should be the rebound flow check assembly. The design is pretty clever because it forgoes a traditional foot stud and nut for a small diameter e-clip. Very little flow obstruction to the base valve ports. The ring shim used as a check circuit is also pretty cool, again out of the box thinking. Cant wait to see some teardown vids/images

Using a picture of Jolanda Neff on a Trek on their promo shots, I guess that's one way to do it or did I miss a secret sponsor deal from Trek Factory.

Thanks for all the love Vital! My goal is to continue a career that allows me to contribute to another 1000 pages of the tech rumour thread.

This might be hopium on my part, but the GenAI bubble finally bursting. Edit: I'm only thinking of the LLM industry here, rather than machine learning broadly. Incidentally I dislike the term "AI" in general because it's so vague. The behavioural scripting of adversaries in video games right from the very start of video gaming to now is still called "AI", after all. Anyway I've already gone far enough off topic...

Not just bikes, I think they will probably fare well with alternate micromobility offerings like this. These are frequently being used in cities as delivery vehicles — often clogging bike lanes. Also (no pun intended), I work in Berkeley, and the Venn diagram overlap of monied parents on e-cargo/transit bikes and also owning electric cars picking up their kids from the private schools is very, very high. (This should probably go into a different thread, sorry)

The Canadian Enduro series didn’t run this year if I’m not mistaken.

One more thing to throw out in this discussion... is that with progressive coils, the spring length vs the stroke length of your shock starts to become something to look at. Meaning that if the progressive rate spring is the constant in this thought process, that a 57.5, 60, 65mm stroke shock are going to dip into that progressiveness at different points in the travel. It makes using progressive springs a bit of a moving target and a non-exact science. It would be really nice if providing spring dyno sheets was common for aftermarket springs. I realize this is "no...

I think the ski discussion is really relevant for all the reasons you guys mentioned. We haven’t really looked into how well the “lift-served businesses” are actually performing, but I’ve always wondered about their economics. I’ve never done a deep dive, or even been to Whistler, (I know...) but in Idaho, Wyoming, and Colorado, I’ve yet to visit a bike park that makes me think, “Yeah, these guys are printing money.” At best, most of them seem like breakeven operations, with Whistler possibly being the exception. Then again, maybe patrol + lifty + electricity isn't all that expensive so it...

please keep this format for all photo articles and ditch the slideshow ones, thx

Fantasy team decimated, but so happy for Loris. Obviously gutted for Bruni and especially Dak.

Wow. This must have been a pile of work. Great job doods.