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1. Loic wins the overall 2. Vali goes undefeated 3. e-bike hate will increase 4. The new demo will be made into an e-bike version - the 2 chain mechanism will be swapped for a new motor from Spec. 5. Bikes wont change much 6. Gates still pushes the nonsense purse to no avail 7. Reece Wilson will do something even more weird with his bike and still not make it through in Q1.

At least another week for some of the "unknowns" to make official announcements. Moir is signing with the City of Bentonville and will have an ankle monitor on that prevents him from leaving the area. He'll be slanging pastries and coffee out of a smoko stand in the woods when not riding.

I feel like everyone who's gotten on cube the last few years seems to have suffered performance wise. Sure Danny might have just been at that point in life as he'd been on it for 10 years at that point.and become a dad, but it seems every time someone coming off a hot one that signs for cube falls off a bit. Jess was the up and comer the year before she signed for cube, and sure she had a few injuries, but she seemed to struggle on the team a bit. Hoping she smashes it wherever she lands.

We carry on to ride bikes for the reason we started as it’s fun Enduro dies at a local level it becomes like gran fondo- participation event but there’s less races Festival style events with bikes, some racing and partying get bigger More e-bikes Brands reduce making 160/170/180mm bikes (enduro) as e-bikes fill this gap 120/130 bikes more popular if you ride a non motorised bike Less dh riders able to get a ride and rightly so if they aren’t good enough Less Instagram “ambassadors” with industry cuts Riding bikes will still be fun

Let’s not let the OG rumors thread saga end talking about folks saddle nose angle preference. In the nature of rumors: - heard rumblings from a brand that makes a flex pivot XC bike of pushing the flex pivot into larger travel aka trail categories. Could be a replacement for the tallboy. Bringing the Blur LT back? - spotted a production looking fox 40 in the wild - generative arch - regular sticker kit and gloss - new 40 and 38 release before sea otter? Back to back days like the 36 and 34sl?

tech rumors forum update - you've spoken and have been heard we'll lock out this thread at the end of the year (no matter what, it's just too darn big now), and will carry on with yearly tech rumors threads that will be stickied for easy participation. the 2026 thread is already underway here (not yet stickied) i just want to thank everyone for their feedback and insight on what this piece of the vital community means.

If you want to know the defnition of what a forecast is, I cna try to explain in my own words (that is how we work with forecasts and does not need to apply for others): For starters, we are an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) for many brands. That means that companies buy our products to put them on their complete bikes. Usually, before the beginning of a new year or model year, our customers will provide us with an estimate of their complete demand for a certain period of time. This estimate is called a forecast. This forecast can...

The bike industry as a whole could have sold more than they did in 2020 and most likely throughout the whole 2021. However, the supply chains simply were not able to cope with the demand. And I completely understand that, for some companies (those that essentially everyone needed parts from) it was impossible to give exact lead times. Their systerm could not scale for that demand and that's why you suddenly heard about lead times of 700-800 days. In reality it could have been 300 or 1000. Simply because no one could accurately scale it up just like that, because...

Somebody has hit the egg nog early

Hey @jeff.brines just want to give you a shout for the second time sending me to Wikipedia from here. Today I discovered the Shallow Pond, last time it was the Ship of Theseus. Makes my once-totally-bookworm-brain engage with actually interesting stuff and tickle some neuron connections when it just wanted to kill time on a biking forum Thank you, Sir!

Others already said it, but we’re a narrow niche inside the bike world. Most people buy bikes based on price, performance, and looks. Unless Markus turned out to be the literal devil, most riders won’t care. And even within our little corner, plenty of people see him as a kind of “savior,” so it’s not like there’s consensus, outside this thread. There’s also a bit of hypocrisy here. I almost always judge a product on those same factors: price, performance, and looks. I’m not doing deep research on the CEO’s ethics, whether employees were treated well, or whether vendors got...

Not correlated! I know that Alan, who's in charge of Enduro, is very committed. He is doing a lot of work behind the scenes to make changes that will help Enduro, I am excited for what he has in store. Excited enough to come out of retirement for a race or two in the future. Masters class is only a few years away for me.

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.

Yeah the track in the stories is his dh track that he build, probably less than a minute at the speeds he’s riding at, but is a great track and short shuttle uplift. He’s filming something with red bull

MFR to rockshox suspension

Pinky has just signed another three years with Mondraker! Does that mean we will hear from Dak soon? https://www.instagram.com/p/DSaJLaZFN6D/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share…

“fished-based drink company” !!!

Does Finn riding a Specialized with suspension telemetry in mid-December put an end to any speculation of him making a team move or is the party still rocking till 12/31?

I did some science. Found him.

The venn diagram overlap of "has enough money to mess around with expensive parts and has an expensive bike" and "does not own proper hex keys or a bike stand" is maddening.