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The telepathy bike has about 30mm of rearward movement at sag. It's designed with an axle path meant to mimic the fork's axle path and maintain a constant wheelbase. Haven't ridden it, so can't say if they're onto something there. I had a 1st gen Canfield Jedi. I think that thing had around 25mm rearward movement at sag. It cornered weird and jumped weird, but I eventually got used to it. I don't think the benefits outweighed the downsides though. There's no way that RMU bike has 30mm rearward travel at sag though. I think that's just some random marketing...

ugh, not this again.

Every santa cruz VPP bike is already 4 bar

30 mm of chainstay (BB to rear axle) growth or 30 mm of rearward axle path?

For anyone who's curious what Weagle says about the Nighttrain suspension layout but doesn't want to scroll through IG comments, answering someone who asked about the design intent behind the bike: "Initially trying to gain a bit more mid corner traction on race bikes but as I hated [typo?] on the idea more and more I began to appreciate that it solves a lot of other issues. Definitely not an immediately intuitive benefit for me, it grew on me. In the end it turns out that by the numbers and by seat of the pants human pedaling a bike, this...

TubeLessReady if I'm not mistaken

super bummer on super boost

Ok, let's bring back Procore, but that Italian version that used a modified tubular road tire so no inner tube. The valve is now smart and when your tire pressure drops it allows the air to blow out of your inner tire into the main one

Whoever suggested "ask the riders what to expect from them this season" needs to be canned. Quite possibly the worst and most pointless question one can conceive to ask an athlete. Literally only one answer. Provides NOTHING to anyone, the athlete, the production, the audience. In between that and the commentating (not being there?) I can't believe it's somehow gotten worse. I'll take Carlsons ghoulies at this point...

Even with a single pivot that directly actuates the shock it's more of a good approximation. The swing arm angle is a factor. The extreme angle being the swing rear axle is directly above the main pivot. In that case it doesn't matter what angle the shock is at because any vertical load is incapable of creating a moment. I suppose one could say that for a portion of travel the small angle theorem is accurate, but I by the time you've gotten to bottom of travel it's usually too large of an angle change for that.

The perpendicularity has some connection if you have a swingarm, I.e. only one suspension member. When you have multiple, it's always a combination of them so things can get a bit skewed.

If you use a power meter to follow power-based, zone-oriented training and a <32t chainring allows you to do so consistently and repeatably, you actually don't need a power meter, you need to train...in a gym? Flawless logic.

Yeah, as someone who does HR based zone-oriented training a <32t is pretty amazing when i need to haul a heavy bike up something in zone 2. Sure I could ignore what I'm trying to accomplish on that ride and muscle my way up things and blow myself up in the process, but that's not always what you need to be doing. And yes, I do go to a gym. My guess is that people who are saying "real bikers only need 32t" haven't actually ever followed a formal training plan, which tend to involve a lot of time in...

Nothing i9 has made in a LONG time has been bombproof. Love them but they are not even close to bombproof

So they got rid of the swat box to save weight and then slapped flight attendant on it?🤣

Hell yeah, thank you so much dudes. I had no idea how addicted I would get to DH fantasy last season. And all due respect to PB, but this format is 1000x better. It's way more fun to always have horses in the race, and also to learn what's what with juniors too.

2026 Global League has been created. Join to be eligible for prizes - https://www.vitalmtb.com/fantasy/leagues We're running the same program in 2026 Game opens after receiving the official qualifying start list and add rider values (should be sometime Weds next week for South Korea) - will announce when live here and the countdown clock will show up when game is live, too. Game closes a couple hours before Junior DH finals start time (which is 11:30am local time in South Korea), so those who want to keep tabs on who makes the show, can make stronger predictions. No season overall prizes...