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SC Heckler and Bullitt would like word about that…

The more I look at it the more it just looks like a bottle cage. Tubing looks too thin for a spectral and the straight head tube with the front frame intersection does look like the V5 in the brightened picture from brash as well

Ha! Funny thread. The good (I think?) news is AI seems markedly further behind in robotics compared to software. While I'm sure we'll see more nanny features in every machine based in software, and they'll be some interesting applications of "AI AR", the idea that the robots are just going to take over and start doing stuff seems a lot further off than OpenAI may have you believing.

Well, are least the model's name would check out... Although turning that legendary freeride/dirt jumping bike line into mopeds would certainly be a shame.

TBF, BM was pretty open that he never got on with the bike.

The new mondraker team is going to be fine. they have good suspensions (fox), good tires (maxxis), good geometry (proto bike has adjustment), lots of team support and staff. They have a race engineer and I’m sure they can modify the bike if needed. if the bikes antisquat is slightly off that is not going to ruin someone’s career.

Huh. Weird. Something must have happened during the 2019 WC season for Brook.

The filing also disclosed that Scott Sports made a profit of $35.8 million in 2022 on sales of $628 million and profit of $23.2 million in 2021 on sales of $695 million. 5.7% and 3.3% margin for '21 and '22 which from talking to friends employed at Trek, was an insanely profitable year. If i had $176 million i definitely wouldn't be loaning it to a company with that margin.

Will be interesting to see how things go when these guys swap bikes. Trummer and Tahuto didn’t seem to have their best years on that mondraker, and brook didn’t like it. Mondraker has some heavy hitters now, will be interesting to see what they do on it.

I live in Nice so am quite biased! Depends how much moving around you want to do but: Finale is obviously the go to for foreign bikers, a ton of companies operating shuttles straight from downtown, so the non-bikers can hang out near the beach, you guys can pedal to the uplift van which usually includes a guide (~50$ per person for the day). I have not actually ridden there, but Molini di Trioria looks amazing, it is halfway between Nice and Finale, you can stay in San Remo which is effectively the Italian Nice/Monaco with casinos and lots of...