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The motives seem like a big miss on Srams part to me. Back to a more vague lever feel, less powerful than the Codes, just doesn't make a lot of sense.

Man, Santa Cruz has the nicest paint in the business, but chooses the ugliest damn colors on everything.

Crankbrothers did a really quiet launch of their new handguards. Not much to them except they have a version that mounts onto your grip lockring. https://www.crankbrothers.com/products/guardian-integrated-handguard-kit

Id put 6 of your watery american beers on you not being able to notice the difference between a 25mm or 30mm wide rim in a blind test. Ill provide all thats required, you just need to show up and prove me wrong to win your 6-pack (my comment is meant as sarcasm, I mean no offence, other than to try and add a little levity) As a reminder to all of us, What the pros do, and use, has little to no bearing on what works in the real world of owner maintained, and hack ridden bikes at half...

Moimoi mentions that sram/rockshox stopped supporting them, and seems quite disappointed about it. Wonder why, he was one of their more successful athletes on the EWS circuit.

I would like to know why that Intend fork is no longer compatible with a direct mount stem. The early 2000s look with normal stem is 🤮

I think you guys who are this picky just need to not buy stock bikes. Or not expect perfection. I recently bought a complete bike. Changed out the dropper, handlebar, grips, and rotors. After spending $500 on that it was STILL cheaper than if I’d pieced it together myself Now shut the fuck up about dropper length and show me shiny new bike parts.

The UK is part of Europe no matter what those Islanders say 🤣

I used that logic for way too long before I finally bought some Dominions and realised I was being really stupid. Never going back to Shimano or Sram brakes. The only downside I've found is holding back the vomit whenever i have to use someone elses brakes.

MSRP $215. Feeling pretty good about my prediction that a mechanical Transmission shifter + derailleur + cassette will cost more than slapping a Deore wireless shifter + derailleur on your existing Eagle/Shimano 12sp setup.

565g oof.

The quote on that last pic 🤮 "more fun" gtfo "sustainable future" gtfo Me-only-bikes are eleventy-billion times more sustainable than eeebs. Focus on that.

Looks like Fox is looking to move to 5 hour service intervals.

Fuck your seals. Sincerely, Fox

Anyone else think that it’s going to be NX/SX quality?

But the bolts only pull the two halves together. They are not a tight fit in the bore. The rest of the aluminium structure (from the bolt head to the start of the thread) can still deform and the seam between the two parts can open up, lowering the stiffness. Unless really badly designed (really thin bridge), a one piece part will be stiffer and lighter than a two piece design. But also much more expensive as it's more complicated to make.

But can you stand on it?

Seems like the only reason for this to exist is to save on labour costs in installing the post in the factory. Another innovation I can live without.

I believe Transmission's effectiveness is partially dictated by having the exact right # of links in the chain. They have an app where you put in your make/model/year/frame size/chainring size and it spits out how many links you need. I'd wager to guess that Sram probably discouraged frame manufacturers from adjustable chainstays when they were selling them on UDH because it could potentially cause less-than-desirable shifting performance if the user didn't have the correct number of links because of chainstay length adjustment. Which would then make the user think that their Transmission sucks. Just a hunch.