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As much as I love it (and am a Patreon supporter) I've started skipping/abandoning episodes because they seem like straight-up puff pieces...

Maybe that is a pod we could actually get.

what a chode lol

He "absolutely understands" the criticism, and continued to laugh and smile through the whole thing. The only time I felt he was being sincere was when discussing his disappointment with the race team management and how they "threw gas on the fire" instead of protecting the family. Apparently, one team rider came to him and said they understand, as did the freeriders. I think we can guess who that is, the only person to keep working for the new YT along with the freeriders who got their contracts renewed.

Please someone else listen to this and summarize the important takeaways so I don't have to.

32" front and back is only gonna be unequivocally better for people of a certain height or better, and peeps gotta keep it real in that regard. With the technicality of modern XC courses, a 32" wheel for someone too short is gonna be a liability I.M.O. We need a new term for 32" front 29" rear. How about Mega-mullet?!

old but good > new but bad.

“You think you hate it now, wait ‘till you ride it!”

Correct. But for the day, I think the Wilson was fairly high pivot. Same as the single pivot Gambler. High pivot for a suspension system without an idler that is. FWIW, when we mention split pivots and caliper locations and certain locations giving a single pivot layout, that is exactly what the high pivot Sender actually is. With the added complication of multiple links driving the shock, not just the chainstay and a rocker. There's an additional rocker in there akin to Knollys 4x4 system, Norcos DH bike system, etc. So it's actually a linkage driven linkage driven single pivot...

The linkages are like crabs in a bucket, climbing all over each to actuate the shock.

One thing that became almost immediately clear in the relatively short time that I have been reading and participating in bike-related internet forums is that the proportion of posters that are good at math is extremely high. It seems that 1 in 10 is an actual engineer, and the proportion of math-brained folks among the remainder is way higher than the public at large. As such, holding back geometry information strikes me as misguided because one's efforts are destined to be futile unless they also refuse to release pictures of the product. From the moment the bike is portrayed in...

New Mezzer inbound?

Reach: 500mm Stack: TOP SECRET!!!

They won't even let us see their Lenkwinkel.

Honestly equally secret to Oberrohr for everyone too lazy to use a translator app, myself included.

it may not be faster but you’ll find yourself in a lone breakaway every ride

Thanks for the math award. I don’t even practice so it’s double nice. We are also very handsome here on the messageboards. That bike is super dumb looking.

What the hell is wrong with these companies? Both Stoll and DirtySixer think they can sell bikes without telling people the geometry. Is this just some kind of rug pull because they don't know what they're doing, and until Trek or Specialized or whoever comes out with a sorted 32inch bike they can trick people into being early adopters with the alure of new-new (be the first on your block!)? This is some fly by night nonsense.