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New Hei Hei looks like a Faux-Crab design…

Why does the Rail+ look like something old people would ride on the bike path next to a river on a sunny weekend day also can we please call Horst link bikes „crab link“ from now on it is fantastic

You can get medication for that.

Scuttles made me actually lol, family is looking at me weird now. "It's a bike joke. About crabs. And marketing. And evolution."

Or like all gas powered cars (and trucks) ended up with turbo 4 cyl engines. Best configuration for the job (Edit: according to the product manager and bean-counters).

Yeah crabs are basically the horst link bikes of the animal world. Everything eventually evolves to crab. see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation

There should be a law that once a product is EOL and is not supported anymore, the specs for the spare parts should be freely published. Including, for example, the dimensions of frame parts to be able to either weld up cracked parts to correct dimensions or have someone be able to recreate things. Right to repair really can't come quickly enough.

Dale just posted a comprehensive deep dive into Lewis brakes. The "Counterfeit Origins" chapter is super interesting. Solid investigative work! https://youtu.be/59xC6Q51po8?si=iWQy3wxS_URGbXqT

Until the front fell off.

So as was sort of pointed out a bit earlier in this thread... Dak's interview confirms that the High Roller 3 (at least DH version) is on the new un-announced Maxxis casing that they've been developing for a while. I'm sure partially or wholly in response to Continental. Neko mentioned that Maxxis was working on casings for a while but they weren't going to be ready for the 2024 season so they went to Continental for the higher performance envelope of their tires. I'm assuming Maxxis is tooling up to get the DHR2 and Assegai ready to ship with this...

Toyota pricing has gone bonkers while somehow staying super under the radar. I bought a 19 Tacoma OR off the lot for 32k. I’m pretty sure a 23 OR is close to 50. Books will be written on the life of the 5th gen runner. It came out when I was in middle school and I’m several years out of college now. The return on investment/development Toyota made off that generation has to be one of the greatest in the history of cars lol. The prices for them basically doubled while remaining identical besides a few facelifts.

If product life cycle length influenced pricing Shimano Saint would be free by now. 😆

Specialized has done some questionable things, especially on the legal end, but I don't feel pricing is an area they are adrift. After all, this isn't AIDS medication or some good/service needed for survival. They should price at whatever level they feel the market will pay for their product. If they are wrong, nobody buys their stuff. Their loss. There is also a lot of nuance around product pricing and the underlying psychology around it. I'm not sure they'll actually sell more if they cut enduro pricing $500. Its a premium product, and people are generally okay paying more or...

Hope is a great company with admirable business practices. Then there's Specialized....they've made some great bikes (I've owned a few), but when it comes to business practices, not so great.