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35mm bar clamp only... Ugh say's the luddite!

Cody Kelly with a mechanical derailleur on a carbon stumpy 15

Isn’t the main problem with influencers the sheer number of them? YouTube is absolutely saturated with people making biking videos of varying quality. The second issue is that many of them were (just about) able to make a living from it when the the going was good. Now it isn’t, they can’t. Whilst I have some sympathy, it never was a sustainable living, and shouldn’t ever have been treated as such. Now the bike industry has contracted, the market isn’t there and they’ll have to move on and find employment like the rest of us do. The mountain influencer scene...

I'll bash them for you. All influencers are awful. Seth's bike hacks was the start of it and ruined everything. Everytime I see any influencer content recommended to me I die a little more inside. Bashing aside, I think the rise of influencers as marketing in mountain biking and cycling in general is a sign of the sport losing its identity. Whether that's good or bad is up to you, but most influencer content I see markets more to out groups and casual people over core riders, and with the covid casual rider kind of phasing out, I wonder if...

specific thread for dropper post discussion started here. https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/dropper-post-insertion-depth-length…

Is "Gravel Biking" In the room with us right now? Mwood, you asked a little while back about how people figured out Carbonda had Nukeproof - Carbonda is the "will sell DTC" branch of Flybike, the actual manufacturer who will not sell DTC. Members of a forum dedicated to the stuff have found they have Dissents, Megas and Gigas available in various colours.

Y'all do realize the people who were trying to get Taiwanese factories to triple their capacity to support the permanent increase in demand that was going to be created by Covid are the same people who thought paying influencers would have good ROI. Could simply be that, absent any external factors, brands are simply realizing that most of us don't give a sh!t, and the rest of us have wised up to the fact social media is just a collection of disguised commercials.

I don't know in the rest of the world, but where I ride (east of France) covid has messed things up quite a bit. We used to organize rides through a messageboard and there could be big rides (up to 20 or 30 people sometimes, a bit of a mess :p), it had started to decline before covid but despite the bike boom during covid, the messageboard is now dead, now there are small groups through whatsapp and other networks like that. People's riding habits have changed, no more big rides, a few buddies here and there, a decent minority...

very good article Fuck Robin Thurston, that guy is a cancer upon the cycling community

Took me long enough but here is a FEA of a tubed vs machined CS (take it all with a grain of salt as neither are optimized but its fun to see how the stress goes though the part). Scroll to the bottom: LINK HERE

another awesome frame stiffness topic with @Ryan Burney https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/can-you-fine-tune-frame-stiffness-j…

I tried to block Jason on my Vital profile page but he still has my cell number. Can you help?

The timing of the forum changes and Bizutch's return are suspicious... 🤔

Now I'm going to block him just because you told me not to

Fresh rubber from the big-S, details and our first ride impressions here: https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/first-ride-specialized-butcher-and-el….

I mean the IP of Nukeproof really isn't a lot. Not having a go at them, but a few horst link bikes and a couple linkage driven single pivots. Not like they had anything revolutionary, they're bikes are very middle of the road, not in a bad way.

I've seen this as well on Bikeradar which had way more information than most other sites, suggesting they did get the IP as well and some of the staff were returning " BCF has purchased existing Nukeproof intellectual property – this would include the existing bikes in the range, as well as componentry." https://www.bikeradar.com/news/nukeproof-returns