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RE: New Stumpy... My big takeaway is when the company who arguably has the largest capex budgets in the industry keeps outputting new models that are small evolutions (Epic EVO, new Stumpy, don't forget Jordan beat Finn/Loic on the "old" demo last season), not revolutions, that tells me we've really hit a plateau of technological progression. This isn't a bad thing, per se, unless you are in the business of selling bikes to bike nerds who used to think they needed the latest/greatest every year. FWIW, this has also happened in the moto, snowmobile, ski, road bike etc world, too...

Deore four piston brakes are better thsn codes. Saints are way better. Ive had my saints thru 5 boikes in 10yrs. They still work amazing w cheap nukeproof metallic pads. The code r's that came on my latest bike(yt decoy) develooed lever slop, friction and subsequent power loss in acouple months and tgey werent as powerful even when they were new. Code rsc with the bearing pivots are much better than code r. Id still take my saints over code rsc. Not many, if any bike part , is still relevant after 10 yrs. I havent tried trp's , hayes...

that's because codes are indeed garbage, they were before and they will be in the future, little power and lot of strength required to obtain it, the exact opposite of what a "downhill" brake should be

I’m wondering how crap it will be, GX t-type are shitting themselves and stop working randomly, XO has no clutch tension whatsoever after a couple rides, XX seems to be good, no idea about the XXSL. meh

Good, the sooner tear offs are banned all round the better. And when a company gets round to making a remote roll off system loic can have an extra button on his bar

did they put the shock in the frame? Layout looks a bit like the ransom Whatever the engineers at Scott are smoking I don’t want none of it also, going to be interesting to see if the specialized team is going to be running the Gustav or if they stick with the MT7. Doesn’t seem like the Gustav has any advantages in a race setting over a properly set up MT7 and is more focused on e-bikes with that whole ABS crap.

Looks like Eurosport users have been had by the big dogs. I received an email saying that Eurosport Premium will be discontinued on 22 July. "The good news is that Max is the new streaming platform for Eurosport". However the sport package is extra on top of the base. I have no use for the base subscription, I want mountain biking. The TV product is crap and only slowly improving anyway. I hate paying for a shit product. I don't mind supporting our sport and paying, but it is terrible to pay for a crap product. Especially when all these...

really? americans not giving a shit about recycling? color me shocked!

i dont buy the aero thing i thought that was a joke to obfuscate answering kinda like the music controls answer to the buttons. i think the obvious answers are keeping the rotor clean but another convincing one I heard is indeed consistency in basically 'power'. if your lines and speed depend on absolutely nailing your braking points and not braking more than you need. having brakes that work the same time every pull helps. and whereas we usually think of brakes getting too hot and fading... i think for them on a single 'short' run there is this idea...

And while they are at it, It'd be nice to do some real reporting work and ask the Discovery people about that most baffling decisión to not stream semis

Trek Adomen. Trek Enomad. Trek Donema. Trek Amonde.

Combining the Madone and Emonda into one bike.Probably to be called Nomade or something equally stupid (Trek road bikes use the same letters)

Formula’s CTS system seems like a great solution.

Likely same proto rims Danny has been on.

I’m a little suprised we haven’t seen any copy cat brake fairings from the other teams. in every interview I have heard I’ve never heard one bad thing about the specialized team other than the inherent self pressure of performing at the highest level. That includes grice, Finn, and Williams. They seem to pride themselves on collaborating towards their riders putting down their best race results possible. Don’t forget Finn raced the prototype bike before loic cause loic didn’t want to change mid season. And sure loic had a head start on the electronic stuff but he seems way more...

If you haven't crashed, the ONLY way this can happen is when you reset the pistons without cracking open the bleed port. Even more likely if you've done a lever/top bleed without using the bleed blocks as this method will overfill the system. It's not covered by warranty as its user error but we sent out loads under goodwill (at 1st instance) in the UK. During my time there I didn't send out 1 brake that was a genuine warranty. @Casacadecomponents: If you ever get bored could I ask you to machine up some Magura MT masters... You'd sell feckin...

The Norco stuff is awful. The "art" is worse than something my 1st grader would make. And the color combinations are like crayons selected at random.

Or it could be because they look cool and moto and everyone is now discussing them and leads to sales? Devils advocate I know. But often they change product just to have something new to sell, not because it results in tangible performance benefits.

it's still heavy, overpriced and deralieur shit themselves randomly and stop working, indestructible my ass