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A shitty render

From an Instagram account that is run by a guy that has fun rendering wild bikes. Render is not from Specialized.

I don’t post post much here but this is a subject I have a bit of experience with. For the past 3 years in a row I climbed over 750,000 feet each year and about 3000 miles each year so I have put a fair bit of hurt on components and bikes. I live in a steep area and ride all dh type trails. Frame: Santa Cruz Megatower V1, this frame has been absolutely bulletproof, one bearing change each year and that’s been it, it did eventually crack at the end of last year but Santa Cruz replaced it no...

A friend received one recently as a warranty. Supposedly addresses the trunnion issues. The label has a few new codes on it which are different from the 22/23 model.

Okay, one of you with the know how needs to enhance that white board to be legible. The Pivot lugs, the head tube looks like it might welded but the rest look all cnc.

Looks very much like standard PM spacing. I think a big part of the limit for piston size is the finger length/stroke and the strength (force) it can achieve. If you use bigger pistons and still want to have a half decent pad clearance to prevent rotor rub, you need more fluid flow which requires either a larger main cylinder bore or a longer main piston throw. With bikes we are very much limited by the total energy input (stroke and force) from the finger. I've mentioned this before in a comment thread or something, you can only make the...

I'm an 11 speed guy and personally find the really low 50-52t gears counterproductive to forward progress no matter how steep the trail is. But then I only run 30T front chainrings on my 29ers, not 34s like Nino and the boys. I've had AXS since it was first released as a group set, and really it works amazingly well and took all sorts of abuse. It's on my wife's bike now. I only got burned once on a bike ride by a failing battery. That said, I went with X01 11 speed on my DC bike and knocked off...

I get what you're saying, but even Ford and Chevy refer to "the new F150" or "the new Silverado" in their marketing materials, which proves that no one in the world actually treats these model names as if they're real names for people. They're object identifiers. I'm not the Charlie, and the Loic Bruni didn't win senior men's world champs last year, but Loic did win on a Demo 8 with the Ohlins DH38.

You are not alone don't worry.

I think he wants MoAr sHiMZ…

In the picture there's a bolt in the top tube, behind the shock near the seat tube, suggesting that there is a short link to drive the shock.

Looks good! Hopefully it will be 15k+$

Tire swapping conversations in team rumors might be a sign of the times, silly season is wrapped up (??)

I’ll just leave this here…

Lew has come here and responded to posts in the past. Doesn't really seem like a twat. I'm kind of shocked at the reaction to the OF helmet deal, considering that the biggest helmet sponsors in the industry have probably been way more harmful to the health of humanity (sugary, caffeinated fizzy drinks) than a website that has helped to flatten/democratize the extremely exploitative hierarchy of the porn industry.

Bike nerds will fight about anything.