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dolface Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/19/2026 2:10pm
"There are clear parallels with what's happened in plenty of other industries. Jayu Yang, a Taiwan-based industry expert, told us the decision to go global was made decades ago, as a Chinese national-brand strategy — the same one that made DJI, Xiaomi, and BYD leaders in consumer electronics and electric vehicles, respectively. Yang explained to us that, much like in the Global North, in the South, the pandemic accelerated everything, and with the cycling sector specifically, it pushed companies to expand manufacturing capacity enormously, only to then leave that capacity looking for somewhere else to go when the demand dropped."
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MJT420 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/18/2026 5:06am
I wonder what the legal recourse is if any? Quite a few brands have been testing openly and probably pouring oodles of money into it just for the uci to now ban them. With the sunk development costs, not just frame companies but wheels, tires, and suspension companies as well what's the chance it all still gets released just to possibly less sales since it's banned from high level competition?
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ballz Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/15/2026 11:42pm
Why is this so hard to understand? https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/e-bike-talk-not-tech-rumor-derailme…
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slimshady Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/13/2026 10:52am
Excuse my French, but could we fucking please stop calling bikes "analog", "acoustic", or -the worst I've heard- "bio"? Bikes are bikes. Ebikes are something else. Now get off my fucking lawn you punks!
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Mwood Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/12/2026 1:01pm
This is big, X Lab is the big Asian brand thats making in roads and had a huge Sea Otter presence. Interested to see that a regional, but larger, retailer pick them up. They have mtb's coming. https://www.bicycleretailer.com/announcements/2026/06/11/x-lab-doubles-…
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TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/12/2026 1:01pm
No joke, X-Lab just won two stages in the Giro d'Italia, so they're not messing around. If they're going to enter the MTB market, that's a big deal.
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mickey Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/12/2026 1:00pm
You want to feel sick to your stomach? USAC asks xc/cx/road juniors to give them access to their Training Peaks accounts so that some ai-obsessed vulture of a coach can identify riders for development programs based on training metrics.. because there are so few opportunities for young athletes to compete in the United States. “Performance Oriented” national governing body philosophy was pushed on us by the Walton family when they took over USAC. We used to operate on a “developmental” model that you know… prioritized local, regional and national racing experience. Now we are sending kids with decent w/kg straight...
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kperras Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/10/2026 1:30pm
Pretty far from 97-3 ratio I'd say. The G-A-S region has always been an regional specialty when it came to performance mtb. They resisted 2x, 1x, progressive geo, real tires, to name a few things, well into the adoption phase in other markets. Being a leader in eMTB market penetration doesn't mean that they're early, more that the MTB culture is different there.
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chriskief Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/10/2026 1:21pm
The headset cable routing edition of suspension layout.
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jofish Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/10/2026 1:21pm
Yo dawg! We put your shock inside your frame so it’s covered and we put a hole in your shock cover so your shock isn’t covered when it’s covered 🤘
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j0lsrud Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/10/2026 1:18pm
The suffering is 75% of why i ride, emtb can't give me that. For practical reasons eebs are good.
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Jotegr Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/10/2026 1:16pm
Posting this here because it seems more bikeonomics related than tech rumours related, but it's sort of in reply or brought about to the discussion going on over there. I'm curious about eMTBs's impact on the MTB "market cap", whether you want to measure that by industry dollars or total number of riders or some other metric ("rider cap?"). I don't think this can be answered decisively as we haven't had enough years of clean data (setting aside any data-gathering difficulties or whether that's really happening industry wide) in the sense that eMTB has really only taken off recently in...
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sweaman22 Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/10/2026 1:15pm
Something weird is definitely happening at Trek. For Canada at least even their latest e-bikes aren't available until September (based on clicking on various models on their website). Happy to be proven wrong but that's what I found.
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FullSend Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/10/2026 7:40am Big changes apparently happening at Trek. My friend (- owner of a small chain of bike shops) just told me that, a couple of days ago, Trek informed their dealerships that there's going to be a lot of change in their product line-up in the near future. Apparenly they are discontinuing a bunch of models, including the Session, Slash, Remedy...
FullSend Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/10/2026 1:18pm (Cross-post from the Bike Economics thread; if people don't think it's relevant to this thread, I'll delete it) My friend (- owner of a small chain of bike shops) just told me that, a couple of days ago, Trek informed their dealerships that there's going to be a lot of change in their product line-up in the near future. Apparenly...
FullSend Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/9/2026 7:26am All I know about this one so far is the name (Turbo Levo X) and the fact that it comes with mullet wheels and 150mm of travel.
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6/9/2026 7:15am
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Primoz Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/7/2026 8:55am
They're starting a company and building a factory to get to 30 million electric motors per year by 2030? Per year? 30 million? Is this a joke? Should that be billion? I work for a moderately small automotive supplier in freaking Slovenia and we probably make more than a million electric motors from our designs, by components, in a year. I'm not taking into account all the small DC motors from the likes of Johnson which are a commodity. I'm talking about stepper motors and BLDC drives that are similar to what's in ebike drives. Is the state of manufacturing...
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Blake_Motley Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/7/2026 8:50am
The Pope reads Vitalmtb forums confirmed
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TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/7/2026 8:48am
"Speaking to the eBike riders I see on the trails here, they're all shifting to lower-priced bikes as they've realized that they can without sacrificing performance." This lines up with a hypothesis I've been thinking about for a while, which is that I think so much of the weirdness of the bike industry and bike customers (obsession with grams and weight, obsession over granular differences in tire feel and suspension tuning, and willingness to spend enormous amounts to customize and upgrade a stock bike) comes down to the weakness of the human motor and the human mind. We only generate...
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