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Nobody’s buying a modern trail or enduro bike with a 66° head tube angle anymore. We need to stop pretending geometry is just “personal preference.” As the sport evolves, we learn what works — and some setups are objectively outdated. 26" wheels are dead. Steep head tube angles are dead. The list goes on. Designing every frame size with the same 435mm chainstay is a cost-cutting move, plain and simple. Anyone who actually understands bike dynamics knows how critical chainstay length is to ride feel — and it makes zero sense for a size Small and a size XL to...

just offer one size then, saves even more by having only one mold!!1111

Greeting people with "what's up assholes?" in videos is not poor attitudes. Leave Unc alone, he's honest and he works hard to spread the good word of long rear centres.

I've got a beer can shim and carbon paste that keeps my post where I want it..

But is it laterally stiff while maintaining vertical compliance?!?

As a tall rider that answer sucks.

If anyone wants to invest a few hundred grand with no guaranteed return, anything is possible.

Lmao. Dave’s greatest talent is probably those contracts

This is something that is very useful to know and I appreciate the companies that make it easy to access. A lot of people want to either upgrade the shock or bring over a high end damper they already own. So this makes it much easier to get that person set up properly if the bike company hasn't already supplied detailed settings and spring rates for that shock

why do you think everyone should have the same length rear center but a size specific front center and do you believe every size rides exactly the same?

$4k frames in 2025: Are you comfortable being DOA?

Sounds like pivot may need to part ways with BK if they want their admittedly great bike to see any success

Wherever the relationship is now (seems healthy enough) its undeniable it wasnt at least a little bit dodgy. Adult team manager getting romantically involved with team member he signed when she was underage. I think it being called out somewhat isn't necessarily a bad thing so that sort of shit doesn't become normalised.

He does, but he also talks a lot of shit, and is famously a massive nit-picker at race venues and complains a lot. So what goes around comes around really. People in scene aren't vindictive, but you can only tolerate a whinging pom so much, ya know? Still waiting for the Hardline BC announcement to come, wonder when that will be and what teams will be going

Nothing will ever vindicate that bike

A shortish travel bike with the weight of a DH is what we have here. Not sure I want that.

Only alloy rim I would buy. Chromag wheels I've built for people get some of the best feedback.

Dampening https://merch.vitalmedianet.com/products/dampening-all-wet-t-shirt

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Atherton's aluminum bikes.