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I can appreciate your angle -- Raaw is focused on great riding bikes that are easy for the owner ride hard, put away wet and maintain and why wouldn't we want that with an e-bike? Make something more complex less complex for the average person. I think the issue arises with motors, batteries, etc -- I don't think they'll ever be as durable as a standard Raaw bike so you introduce complexities into a company that's built itself off of offering a less complex product. Then you increase operating coast because you have folks spending more time on R&D and...

Shimano has been on the “me too” cycle with mountain bike products for at least the last 10 years. It’s all just been reactions to what SRAM and others have been doing. Nominating them for any kind of award is just a hard no in my opinion.

Not a good sign for Moir unless Wyn is trolling

wouldn't ride/rep a brands bike that owes me money too.

I think its the same coating Loic had earlier but just in the full sun looks a little different.

The mental image of the guy hiding in the bushes is hilarious

Something screams scor at me with this bike but they went out of business, somehow…BMC, the company behind it, might want to give it another try.

He's undeniably a far better rider than I’ll ever be, and this isn’t a critique of his skill on the bike—that speaks for itself. That said, I have to disagree with what you’re saying. He’s consistently criticized almost every bike he’s ridden since the original Mondraker. More notably, he’s the only rider I’ve heard go on a podcast and openly tear into multiple former sponsors' equipment—sometimes even gear that’s still on the market. Most riders might, years later, say something like “that wasn’t the best race bike,” but he goes as far as to call bikes sketchy or unsafe. That...

Thanks for the scrolling format. I love the nerdery, but always give up on having to swipe through.

No you don’t really HAVE to, the reasoning behind every components is in my first post, it shifts great under load, no better then when I had shimano everything else as well as the cassette, Plus the derailleurs are made of cheese, they need everything to be perfect or they will perform horribly with random clicking and cracking sounds, while the gx just works and I don’t have to work on it every other week or every other month. As I was saying I’m very happy with the sram chain on shimano cassette, even when everything else is shimano it’s...