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TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
12/11/2025 5:48pm
I thought it was breathtaking that the riding images in the press release feature a rider with "YT MOB" pants and helmet. It's sort of like taking your best friend's recent ex out to a seafood dinner. It's not illegal, but it sure looks bad. Didn't realize they were still using the name and likeless of their ex-athletes on the site, too. Yikes.
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Jotegr Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
12/11/2025 4:59pm
I think the French DH riders have it right when they just describe everything as either a DH bike or a trail bike. It's wild to me that people are thinking 150mm bikes are trail bikes now. I should be a bit more French.
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Evwan Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
12/11/2025 4:59pm
Add Santa Cruz to the west coast mix. Lots of chunky / steep / fast stuff that merits a slacked out 170mm bike. Like yeah, I could ride a 26lb stumpjumper on those trails, but I'm having way more fun on a DH capable enduro rig. I don't think the enduro style of bike is going anywhere. It's more fun than a 150mm trail bike in a lot of scenarios.
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dolface Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
12/11/2025 4:59pm
Heck yeah, let's get MORE soil science, glaciology and and geomorphology in here! Who wants to nerd out on the Franciscan melange? Also:
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Poleczechy Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
12/11/2025 4:58pm
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JVP Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
12/11/2025 4:58pm
Not tech rumors, but soil tech history! The difference between Oregon, WA and BC is all about ice. Kilometer+ thick ice sheets created glacial terrain features and exposed more bedrock from Washington State north. Oregon didn't get the sweet, sweet ice sheet remodeling. The maximum extent of the Puget Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet was Tenino, which is between Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. In the Seattle area you have a lot of glacial till soils that the ice pushed around. Further north the ice scraped away soils and smoothed the bedrock, making terrain for amazing tech riding. This...
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chriskief Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
12/10/2025 4:33pm
Oh Spomer... those contracts were with the old YT company run by old YT CEO Markus. New YT company CEO Markus has no idea what you're talking about.
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boozed Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
12/9/2025 7:59pm
I took my enduro bike out on my local XC loop the other day to test some things and it was slow, but boy was it comfortable. I use the enduro bike for a lot of things it isn't "necessary" for because it's easier on the body.
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Ob917 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
12/9/2025 9:17am
Most parts of the US 150 is PLENTY! But not the west side, 170 all day
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drakefan705 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
12/9/2025 9:16am
I think like most things this very much depends on where and what you ride. Here in Vancouver almost everyone I know is on a 160-180mm enduro bike. Our trails have a lot of big roots and big compressions so we’re using every bit of travel we can get. Even if you primarily shuttle to the top you’ll likely be pedalling at some point so you rarely see downhill bikes at Seymour.
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sethimus Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
12/8/2025 7:39am
i worked in such a shop once for a few months. one day, the troy lee softgoods arrived, at least 3-4 of each size. later, when trying to find space for the boxes, i found last year‘s order, about the same size, same things, neatly packed away in the basement…
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Brian_Peterson Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
12/7/2025 2:03pm
On the same note, the companies have to be realistic with pre-order expectations. Typically, the shop puts in the order they want and the reps comeback asking for more.. One dangerous act I saw at a former employer was the rep came in with a suggested order and one of the owners didn't even question it. After the senior parter booted him, an inventory was done and it was quickly found out why they were so deep in the hole to the big red S.. Hell, day one when I went into the store that I would eventually manage, they...
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Brian_Peterson Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
12/7/2025 2:57am
On one of the Pink Bike podcasts not to long ago, Kaz and crew laughed at the tribalism between the users of both sites.. I'm willing to bet that a majority of us are on both sites.. A little different vibe between the two, but at the end of the day, it's just more mountain bike stuff for me to read and potentially some bike related discussions to participate in..
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jeff.brines Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
12/7/2025 2:52am
2026 prediction time! Link to my substack... What do you guys all have on your radar?
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dolface Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
12/7/2025 2:52am
Thanks, subscribed! Are there really more PE firms in the US than McDonalds? Noticed this is incomplete: Update, a few people asked for data points around consumer health, though there are a gazillion, the ones that stood out the most to me include (Who heck down-voted your post?)
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AvgMTBEnjoyer Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
12/6/2025 11:47am
I could live with annual tech threads
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FullSend Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
12/6/2025 11:46am
Yes, I think annual threads is the format I would also prefer. As others have pointed out, this thread specifically thrives on a healthy mix of actual tech rumors and lighthearted banter / memes. But for that, the conversation needs some sort of continuity. To get that continuity, but also not eat up too many resources on the Vital servers, I think yearly servers would be the best solution.
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DontWorryImAPilot Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
12/6/2025 11:46am
100% agreement. Vital is awesome and anything we can all be doing to make the whole service more viable - especially things that don't fundamentally change the site's usefulness - is something I (and I'm sure most others) would be on-board with.
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Fox Added a comment about bike check 2025 Yeti SB165
12/6/2025 11:42am
Cool custom build!
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