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Their dealer email stated the below: Why the Sale? We’re running this massive sale to clear out the warehouse and generate the cashflow needed to invest in exciting new products currently in development. As the market continues to become more competitive, we need to rebalance our stock while investing in prototypes, extensive testing, and tooling for the future models we plan to launch next year and in the future.

The Horseshoe Crab of the MTB industry, peak evolution.

homepaged.

So Horst Link = Crab Link Linkage Driven Single Pivot = Faux Crab Link High Pivot = Spider Crab Link Single Pivot = Rock Crab Link VPP & DW = Blue crab Link Hardtail = Lobster

6 bar = king crab

Why does the Rail+ look like something old people would ride on the bike path next to a river on a sunny weekend day also can we please call Horst link bikes „crab link“ from now on it is fantastic

Not sure if this was caught by anyone else, but Open might have just leaked some details on a new Shimano derailleur while promoting a new gravel frame of theirs? https://opencycle.com/blog/new-direction-for-up-and-upper

If you're using a multitool on every ride you need to improve your maintenance routine.

I love to complain and I'm a robot.

I dont have anything to add but just wanted to say i think E-bikes and meatbikes might be my new favorite term

Right now the market fell out of mid and low end sales post covid. Top of the line stuff is probably chugging along just fine, as the target market is relatively recession immune, so we're going to see the eggs go into that basket for a while.

I think we're entering into a new pricing scheme in mtb. And it's happening because human brains are so dumb. Bikes are going to - over time - be priced higher and higher and higher and higher until ebikes and meatbikes (my favorite term for non-e-bikes) are almost the same price. Then mtb riders will start looking at ebikes more as a "why WOULDN'T I just get the ebike?" sort of way. Normalizing the higher meatbike price while directing more people to ebikes. All the while, the mtb industry is Hobby Lobbying the shit out of their prices. All the...

I know this site is more big bike centered but Corey Wallace (Kona endurance racer...) spotted on a proto g3 Hei-Hei. Proof that Kona is still alive!

On the note of disengaging hubs and pedal kick, so long as whatever drive mechanism you have can automatically engage when you pedal forwards, it's impossible to prevent it from causing pedal kick. The drive mechanism, whether it be hub or BB based, can't differentiate between the chain getting pulled on due to you pedaling and the chain getting pulled on from the suspension compressing. Riding backwards is a little different in that you can use the fact that the hub is rotating backwards relative to the axle to disengage the hub.

nope. we have XTR and Deore 4 pots in whistler right now.