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Julien555 Liked a bike check 2026 Liv Glorious Advanced "Angine de Poitrine"

10/14/2026 10:41am
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Can someone please explain in detail the main differences between the Canyon and the Norco then? Extra points if you can articulate which bike is better for someone riding the bike to 50% of its potential, i.e. the average consumer.🤣 I'm just saying they look pretty similar 🖕

Primoz Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

9/25/2026 10:53pm
Do you really trust the ai to put the two stack heights in proportion when it couldn't hit even one other detail correctly?
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Not at all. Just trying to add a low effort visual aide to what I was thinking when I first saw the new Norco😛. Also, if it's my money, I'd much prefer to buy an Aluminum DH bike over Carbon. soon as I saw the new Norco, I felt like the chainstay in particular had an uncanny resemblance to the...

Julien555 Liked a bike check Goldmember's Glory

7/5/2026 9:46pm
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Glory831Guy Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

6/23/2026 12:24pm
Kove Motorcycles and ZXMOTO, also from China have scored wins in Dakar Rally, and World Supersport. A lot of people thought that Chinese companies would never do well in competitive racing series, but that's not the case anymore.

Glory831Guy Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

6/22/2026 7:50pm
If the price is right China is going to start eating Taiwan's lunch big time in the bike market. Frame design for pedal bikes has plateaud super hard at this point. All the big hype lately has been about components/EEB Motors rather than new bike releases.

TeHa Liked a bike check Santa Cruz Megatower CR250 1995 custom paint

6/18/2026 6:39pm
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@Glory831Guy - even then, you can retune a shock easier than deal with a poorly thought out or manufactured frame.
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True, but nowdays it's not necessarily gonna be one or the other. You could have two frames with the same tolerances and similar strength, and one of them has the better shock tune, so you like it more, that's all I'm saying. I would be surprised if there was a significant difference in frame stiffness/Kinematics with the same suspension layout...
I'm not talking about damper architecture, Charger 2.1 vs 3.1. I'm talking about the individual tune that the bike manufacturer puts on the stock bike. The shock can have the same eye to eye and stroke dimensions + same Charger 3.1 damper, but one frame OEM uses medium compression tune, and a different frame OEM uses a light compression tune...
I’d love to see a shoot out of trail bikes using the same linkage designs. It would really interesting to start to dig a bit deeper as to what sets them apart - quality control, kinematics, maintenance, etc etc.
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