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The eagle 90 cam fits in an XO1 shifter pretty dang well. Just need to run a bushing in place of one of the bearings. between the eagle 90 and XO1 shifter, you have all the parts needed. Ran it for half a season before the cable tourism of the bike got annoying and swapped back to wireless T-Type. Allegedly, SRAM please don’t sue me*

There's a lot of people that love short rear ends on shorter travel bikes. It makes them feel quite nimble on tight terrain. Have you done much pedaling on tight Midwest or east coast single track? Rear end length isn't the only thing that makes a bike climb well. As a 6'4" tall rider, I love the 460mm chainstays on my Frameworks, but I do still enjoy shorter rear ends on certain trails. Feel free to continue bantering on chainstay length over on the thread dedicated for that. A STEEZL update will happen in the future for sure, but not...

I have that problem but I dont think its eagle 90.. hear me out.. I did swap out all electronics out of the box (bike came with full XO) for eagle 90 stuff , kept the XO cassette... 3rd gear would skip skip.. I had to jump above and below it always.. I though it was the eagle 90.. got another t-type cassete and moved my eagle 90 shifter/derailleur to another bike, put the new t-type cassete (garbaruk) and voila, no issues.. put the xo shifeter/derailleur no my original bike with the xo cassette... same issue 3rd gear.. pair the...

2supple is right about the new Maxxis DH casing being stiffer but he’s also missing a huge point: the added support allowed them to move to 120tpi, which is way more supple under the tread than the 60tpi they used before. This is actually very similar to radial and schwalbe adding more support to their tire is exactly the same move that Maxxis made in trying to tune how progressively stiff their tire is. The biggest benefit of radial is that we can have tires with awesome puncture resistance and awesome traction, while having a lot of control of where...

No qualms from me if yall wanna spend your money on 30.5 but this does have me concerned for 27.5 rear wheels. I spent years and multiple bikes on full 29 and now years and multiple bikes on mullet and just prefer the smaller rear wheel, even on short travel bikes. I’m out here for the turns, not for speed and “efficiency”

New Hayes Dominion lever From Reece Wilson and Pinkbike's new video

Used some top secret forensic enhancement software from the CIA to recombobulate the pixel matrix and guess what:

You're on the internet. There are losers on the internet. There's a certain base level of negativity from that part of the population that you've just got to laugh at and ignore.

So I put together some stats about tires people had at the Finale World Champs and to my surprise, the Magic Mary (radial) on the front and Tacky Chan on the rear was the most successful combination, winning in elite women, elite men, junior men and women e-edr. I say surprise because I always considered the Magic Mary a bad tire for Finale's hardpack conditions 😆. I raced in the open and ran an Albert Radial on the front paired with a Romy Diagonal on the back and they felt perfect, but now I'm very curious to try the Mary/Tacky...

I'll bite on the "Pardus to World Tour" news. They've been on my radar for a few years as one of the first factories-turned-brands. To borrow Rick Vosper's terminology, this is another sign that Bike Industry 4.0 is coming. Factory-direct brands are the next evolution of consumer-direct brands. I believe this trend will continue, and 2027 might be the first time it shows up big in MTB. It's already happened in road and gravel, as those products are a bit easier to engineer and market. Mountain bikes have had a bit of moat in that suspension performance, efficiency, and geometry...

That's fair, I am not defending talking about political opinions/trolling, but politics are a factor in every aspect of our lives. To say, in a discussion of an industry that depends on global economics, that someone doesn't want any political talk is naive. This forum is certainly not a place for being a shitlord, but let's not kid ourselves. Politics are 100% part of the economic realities facing the bike industry.

I understand. But wingspan is also not comprehensive enough. How long is your "upper" body. Where are your arms attached to your upper body? Where are the arms relative to your feet? Soime people have short necks or long heads and, while some peoiple might have same height and wingspan, but their arms might be 5cm (or more) further away from their feet: Big difference. So, how deep do you want to dive in there? There more variables you allow to inpout, the more mistakes you can make and the more vague your result gets. Base understanding and tools that...

First off: Thanks @iceman2058 for sharing this tool here. I just sent it to him one day before to have a look, when we had just put it live, and it's an honour to see it shared amongst other enthusiasts (not to say nerds), like ourselves. @thegromit We were thinking about making the frame specs also indepent between the two setups, and it is easily possible. However, the main idea behind this tool was to be able to play around with different spacers, stem lengths, handlebars and handlebar rotation and to understand what happens when you change this or that...

Not exactly a tech rumor, as this is actually real, but worth a post here I think - BikeYoke has just introduced their new "Cockpit Calculator" (do you have a better name for it?), basically a 3D visualization of how changing your geo and cockpit parameters affect your riding position. It's a pretty neat concept, with a few nice use cases that jump out at us. For example, if you're changing your frame and you want to get as close as possible to your old fit, this could help you figure out exactly what cockpit components you need to get...

In the days of the 36SL, I'm not sure why any 140mm or less bike is getting a new Lyrik, other than supplier partnerships. Seems like the 36SL is the objectively optimal fork for the Tempo. Is the Pike really too flexy to hammer? Anyway, now here's my maybe even hotter take: Sure, the commencal might be Cat 5, but I don't think bike companies can justify a short travel bike breaking or being less durable because people might ride it too hard. You can't make a bike with enduro-like geometry and then when people ride it fast on hard...

I've got both the new Zeb and Lyrik, and ran the previous versions of both. Old Zeb I had to run an MRP Noken to use most of my travel as opposed to only 2/3, at pressures that were reasonable for the first half of travel. Old Lyrik I had no such issues, but it was noticeably more flexy fore/aft and torsionally than old Zeb. Both new forks are a lot more linear and I'm able to use full travel on big landings at baseline pressures (then add ABO to give some reserve). New Lyrik is more linear than new...

I think you’re both missing the point of the Tempo. It’s not supposed to be a light efficient trail bike, it’s meant to be a short travel bike that you hammer like an enduro bike, same as the Forbidden Druid (which also comes with a Lyrik/36). Nobody is buying a Tempo to count grams or ride blue trails. The 36 is the right fork for the bike’s intentions. I’d personally also spec gravity tires on it.

This is a slight derail but I agree. My hot take is that the ride quality of the new Lyrik will never be good enough to justify the weight. The previous one was awesome, and so was the one before that. The fact that is being praised as much as it is, opens the door for the other big dogs to keep beefing up. Current Lyrik is nearly identical in weight to the previous gen 38... The Pike was a quality enduro fork in 2017... Please spec 120-140 fork travel bikes with pikes/non-obese Lyriks/36SLs or even 34's. I'm so sick...

Me. I’m the one who will probably buy one. I am not a more travel is better guy. I’ve run hardcore hardtails for many years as my ‘trail’ bike mostly because I couldn’t find a 120mm frame I felt like I could hammer. This is Cat 5 rated. And comes with a Lyric. Sign me up!