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Yes, there is a break-in period. I mounted a lightly used and new radials this weekend and it's amazing how different the casing is. If mid corner support lacks try MM's. I stayed away from MM's bc input for non-radials was they're not great for SoCal, I didn't find that to be true at all. I like the MM front and Albert rear combo for conditions similar to yours.

Man, thanks for sharing all that info! It's interesting to hear the different feedback on the radials. We are hearing that for heavier riders in hard terrain, the casing can squirm in those high load cornering situations you refer to, even at increased pressure. In softer or mixed terrain where average speeds are lower, they seem to perform well.

Possible that they offer a 15mm conversion kit like the Marzocchi DJ fork? Probably not the best solution, but depending on the dropouts, it could be an option..

tried using chatGPT with a ton of quality prompts, my years of expertise to tune me up a winning Vital Fantasy team....I got worked, 312th or some crap, my missus smoked me, shes 70th and wont hear the end of it. I last minute traded in bruni to buy up some mid packers-what a bust.

Would have been nice to know this was coming.

Sorry if this has already been posted, but just a reminder that the Juniors finals will be streamed live and free on the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series Youtube channel, starting at 5:30 Eastern on Sunday, May 18. Visit: https://www.youtube.com/@uci_mtbworldseries/streams for links to streams.

Good to see Randy sending it while RR races DH.

EDR Two first-time winners Canadian first-year elite Ellie Hosking wins women’s. Slawomir Lukasik wins men’s. Randy in 6th!

Appears to be some sort of belted purse.

Get your flame fingers ready for use, folx. An UnPopular Opinion is ahead: I joked with friends/coworkers that if you ever have a bad day at work just remember that somewhere there's a team of mech designers that had to design and render the cycbertruck. I think one of those designers went over to whomever is making those likely Brembo brakes and used all of their design chops they picked up rendering that poorly laid plan of a vehicle on that MC. Woof!

Another one from the mad Italians

Hi everyone, Andi Sykes here! I covered the China Cycle Show for Vital last week, and I've finally had time to edit some YouTube videos together of my coverage. Hope everyone is ok with me posting here, and please give me a shout if you have any questions about the bikes seen in China.

$3.77 and i'll consider. PIT BITS from Poland are up. Some bling, some electrogadgets, some Maxxis protos, weight watchers, diapers and more. https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/pit-bits-2025-world-cup-downhill-biel…

Another thing that people don't understand- if something gets leaked before bike shops know whats coming, they can have lots of product on the floor that lose considerable value as soon as a photo is posted, as everyone will want to wait for the newnew or expect discounts. It's already hard being a bike shop owner, and some of this deleting is actually best for the industry in the long run. heavily influenced by Escapee Collectives discussions on this topic and embargos

they just venmo me $2.79 per deletion. it's very rare we get asked to take anything down and in 16 years of being at vital, i don't remember any leaning/pressure from brands "if you don't do X, we'll hold back from working with you." just because something was here and goes away doesn't always mean we deleted it. we delete if asked by a brand b/c someone that shouldn't have had the info/photos/videos leaked the info/photos/videos or if an NDA was clearly broken. we don't delete if a product is out in public, if someone was careless with their hiding...

Thank you for bringing the Nerd to the Nerd discussion! This is what I'm about: DIY at its finest. Curious how you came up with your formula/ingredients, specifically the antifreeze component. Everything else makes sense. I did think being able to recycle old tires by shredding em up would be rad, but I'm pretty sure the spousal unit would be displeased with me using the spice grinder for that :D

The hourglass design on that kit is a big fail. One of those things where it looked great on the computer screen. Then when the riders put it on it's a different story... Haha. The curved hourglass makes everyone look like Umpa Loompas with massive thighs/quads. Lol. Laurie probaby said "F that, I ain't wearing it" hahah

For what it's worth I've snapped a gates belt on a power stroke immediately after a nose pick. It wasn't a fresh belt by any means but my legs are lacking watts, probably a combination of the compression and crank input stressing it. I know a gent with thighs the size of my torso on a Zerode, he couldn't stop destroying belts and 12 speed pinions under warranty so ended up getting rid of his bike.