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Theo, Brendog and Jack Moir are on the dh track. Looks like parts are melting quickly.

🤔 edit: apparently v3 clash

New Commencal coming April 14th per their website. These look like very, very long chainstays. Enhance anyone?!

Applause for JVP. Fantastic insights.

One challenge with low volume apparel is amortizing the development cost. Soft goods sometimes cost more to develop than hard goods as it's a ton of labor making patterns, sewing up samples, testing, reworking the protos, repeat this several times, then have the factory make a few pre-production samples to make sure they interpreted your tech pack correctly. You also need to validate for durability (all brands do this, right? RIGHT?). It's as much voodoo as it is hard science, which means lots of back and forth. Yes, we give them CAD files for patterns, but it's still all hand...

Saw this banner this morning, guess it got put out too early.

here is the brake-specific forum thread to put useful information about current brakes into a place where it can be read by people looking for advice on brake setup. it has over 2900 replies about brakes.

Well, turns out the manufacturer of such shiny products, happens to be engineers themselves, and after testing and comparisons came to the conclusion that, with their design, the difference in stiffness between the 15 and 20 was only 4% a % that can easily be offset with the right choice of hub rather than something random like most people run ( see Yeti and their podium builds with dt 350 ) After riding the Edge with the 15mm axle and i9 hydra 2 front hub, I came to the conclusion that I don’t need a 20mm axle and the pain...

Well it's confirmed (by email), RMU (Rocky Mountain Underground, the ski company) is making a bike (with DW) That likely explains the aluminium not-a-pivot we saw some time ago (photos in this thread). Well done folks, it was figured out here first

I think it would be hard to increase the price of lift tickets to the same as ski tickets and still have a sizeable user base. I would cut my bike park days to 1-2 per season. Backcountry skiing takes so much more experience and is much more terrain limited than enduro style biking. Although backcountry skiing has exploded in recent years, beginners are mostly limited to resort skiing. Biking is the opposite, where pedal access trails are so accessible that beginners usually start under their own power, and are likely to continue to do so. In addition, skiing carries...

It kind of reminds me of the pachycephalosaurus

Unfortunately I'm an idiot, so I'll answer your question even if it is sarcastic. I found a known value that's easy to measure, the rear brake rotor. I set it to 203mm (as mentioned in a bike check from my memory) 16.2cm = 6.377 inch, rounded up however the app used rounds things and also not a perfect angle. Closest match for phone size would be a Iphone 16/17 pro max at 16.3 cm or a google pixel 9/10 at 6.3 inches. I'm going to go with the iphone 16/17 pro max. I should touch grass. I'm also either going...

I love you all but can we please move the commuting talk to a different thread? Thanks!

I like how the dumpster is slightly smaller in 2024.

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Re: recent geopolitical happenings With the Straight of Hormuz and Red Sea both being closed to tanker traffic, we will be seeing some very large increases in oil prices, at least in the short term. In my 30+ years tracking bicycle retail trends, we usually see an uptick in bicycle sales when the price of gasoline becomes painful for commuters who have options besides driving to work. The oil prices increases in 2004 (it went above $50 a barrel for a while in the fall, IIRC) was one of the things that allowed a lot of shops to survive that...

Just a few questions- Does it currently have a shock and is there something about it you are looking to improve? Have you checked if all those options physically clear the frame? It's not always a given and can narrow your choices down a lot. Every picture I could find had the stock super deluxe Is there a service centre or shop close by that give you better support for certain brands? And do you have a budget? I'm a Push dealer so will obviously recommend the VT/x and SV8 if they fit. Pricing on the SV8 is very competitive...

Fuck me this thread is interesting