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Judging by the old Blackbox suspension and that colorway, that is the last Canyon Moir had when he was on CFR, so not a new bike, see this post https://www.instagram.com/p/CietO0Gs4jp/?img_index=1 Will be interesting to see if he actual signs for them as a "free agent", especially seen as Canyon's marketing budget took a hit with lower sales etc..

Stoked for Moimoi! If its going to be a great Monday, might it possible to get an update for 2026 from @jessemelamed too please?😇

Canyon also commented on his last insta post

Is moi moi back on canyon? Looks like a purple strive, don't see a reason why he'd be running a strive he had from his time with canyon if he still has the YTs

I haven't gotten my fitness up for racing any of the Eastern State Cup enduro races, but I would love to try one. It is the uphills that kill me.I would probably have to train in order to even try one of them. We are pretty lucky that we live in New England and we have access to this organization that runs Downhill and Enduro races. One day I will make it happen.

Cat 4 is we call this a gravity mtb but we will deny your warranty for riding it.

I have heard on good authority that there will be a hardline on Cypress mountain the week before the whistler world cup

Prince andrew to pivot?

⚠️Rant Warning, no actual advice below⚠️ I don't know what it's going take for the powers at be to come to terms with the fact that EWS/EDR is mostly directly supported by the COMMUNITY of riders that are actively participating in Enduro racing, not random bored YouTube and HBO algorithm drifters. At least to me the most successful period of EWS was when there was a well promoted international web of qualifier events and 100/80 events along side the Elite races. People could actually aspire to racing an elite event and the pathway was clearly defined. Or there was the...

Don't worry everyone: I already had a meeting planned with @sspomer this afternoon, so I'll be sure to tell him on all of your behalf what a terrible person he is and how we're not mad, just disappointed.

@sspomer I totally get your decision from a web resourcing point of view. Things get really expensive really quick when you need to tack on more power. A lot of cloud hosting providers price exponentially instead of linearly. That being said, I think not pinning a v2 and keeping this way of chatting about rumors is a mistake. This thread works because it allows for banter along side rumors I wouldn't ever care about. Prime example is the Santa Cruz Vala, a bike I have negative interest in. However that did prompt the carcinization of bike suspension discussion (that prompted...

Crabification, forum edition. I'm honestly just thankful that there is still a place to discuss things that are meaningful, that are not facebook groups. Thanks to all for staying committed to the gen x/millennial form of endangered internet discourse that is the forum.

The EWS100 and EWS80 were replaced a few years ago (I think when the UCI took over) by the EDR Open, which is basically the same thing. This year, we raced one day out of two when the Pros had a two-day race, or we had one fewer stage than the Pros when it was a single-day event. Unfortunately, we didn’t have Open racing at all the rounds. It was only available in Pietra, Bielsko-Biała, Loudenvielle, Morillon, and Val di Fassa. There was some form of Open racing in Aletsch as well, but I only found out about that after...

I used to have a shitty bike rack you could pretty easily just steal off the car if you wanted, and I had to head into the shop. I was so proud of my idea to back up perfectly to a pole so I could lock my bike to the pole without having to take it off the rack. Came out of the shop, jump in my car and promptly ripped my bike off the rack driving away breaking the straps it was attached with and giving it a big ol scratch.

I can comment on this: In apps like Instagram, Facebook, and TT, the last few months have been a cringe filled nightmare with the AI voice-over tech that has infested videos, ESPECIALLY review or comparison videos. These are videos that show real videos just with some generic voice speaking. It is so painfully obvious that a real person is not speaking and instead it is a prompt written by someone who's first language was not obviously English. Examples: "YT" pronounced "yit" "Santa Cruz" pronounced with a rolled r (this one is hilarious to me) "V10" gets pronounced "Vee-one-zero" "Spartan" as...

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...

Fucking LLMs will be instrumental for accelerated enshittification of absolutely everything.

truly we are in the dregs of team rumors by now... January 1st, come hither. I have NEED of you!