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Does anyone read the marketing copy for bikes at all? If I were looking at a bike company I knew nothing about, I’d filter model by desired travel, scan photos to look at suspension design, and then go straight to the geometry section. I feel like this is the case for most experienced riders. Completely naive (I mean that in the sense of new and uninitiated) riders are going to feel overwhelmed by all the dumb jargon the industry has created and zone out of most marketing copy also. I think this is about the most harmless application of AI...

I think the 55lb mark is the threshold for "too heavy." I think it also depends on how the weight is distributed in the frame too. Meaning not all 55lbs bikes feel/ride the same. I was fully on the "get the bike as light as possible" train before I got into emtb's and I thought the weight was going to be a bigger issue than it is. I honestly only notice the weight taking the bike on and off the rack. Otherwise, on the trail I prefer the heavier weight to my park mtb. We're all clearly not him, but...

this thread is so hilarious and educational that we turned it into an Inside Line. @TEAMROBOT, @Jason_Schroeder and I go over some of the best here, discuss some of our own and have a blast doing it. thanks so much to @seanfisseli for starting this and everyone who contributed. let's keep it going!! one i've not mention has do to with quill stems. twice when i was a kid, my handlebars fell off. once in a bmx race and once on a 10-speed hauling through a crusty asphalt parking lot. my dad didn't realize that the quill bolt was as...

Hey everyone, not mad at anyone in this thread (besides maybe myself). I clearly have ideas and a delivery style that probably isn’t ideal for a mountain bike forum. Robot wrote a genuinely great post (he’s a better writer than me), and I realized there was no way for me to counter it. Not because I didn’t have anything to say, but because I started turning into this (actual photo Tucker took of me this morning): Any frustration you see from me is with myself, not anyone else. I like friction. I like debate. What I don’t like is knowing...

Kinda wild that the other site is giving YT a huge banner ad for a new launch when they have hoodwinked heaps of people out of 1000's

Thanks, it was a graph like that I was thinking of. I haven't seen one showing EMTB vs. EMTB+ though, so I didn't know that about the change to max assist. When I rode last night, I'd agree that EMTB did feel weaker than it used to when putting out a similar level of effort. The reason I like the dynamic modes (basically any of the ones where it's not just a linear relationship between assistance & rider power) is that they are really efficient where it's less steep and you don't need as much assistance, rather than wasting watts...