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If you don’t like the torrent DH, the bottle rocket and the Marin quake you might not have kids who are regularly sending their carcasses— emulating Everything they see on YouTube— I do have kids. They don’t quite send yet…. but my fellow parents that have high school aged kids that send ( like what the fuck!! These “kids” are sending seriously raw lines, maybe not heavy af but the youth are currently charging hard everywhere and always ) are always pleased to see much cheaper, and aluminum frames that aren’t going to break the demographic for these “ not...

I will probably get flamed for this, and will offer the caveat that I have only been skimming this page, but I feel like these bikes are great propositions and are in my eyes cool bikes because they’re made to be cheap and practical workhorses for younger demographics that don’t have as much disposable income and want a playful park bike that they can maintain themselves. Maybe I’m just haven’t been following the thread well enough, but I don’t see why the ebike bit is necessary to explain the appeal. Not everyone can afford bougie boutique racing machines, or ebikes...

I mean are you a great musician if your instrument is so out of tune that the audience notices or cares? I know guitar players who absolutely cannot set up a guitar. Have no idea how to adjust a truss rod. No idea what the little intonation tuners do. Don’t know why their guitar buzzes if they aren’t holding the strings. Would take all day to tune a guitar without help from a tuner. But they shred better than 99 percent of the population ever will. And yeah they can get better at all those things with effort. But at...

This Just In! Stark Motorcycles is going to be joining the MTB world with its EBike Called the Stark “NotaMoto”. This ebike has 80 horse power and a gear box. Apparently they made the decision to join the bike industry after one of the executives said- “ I mean its all bullshit. You can buy an ebike from Specialized at the same price as our motorcycles. But with like 1/1000th the power. We should just put mountain bike wheels on a Varg and just sell it to them. Theyre just in denial that they want a motorcycle and want to...

I take this more as neither one of these things are likely to happen. Shaving 20% of the Levo seems likely as does seeing a new enduro anytime soon.

I feel like there has got to be a better thread for this convo…

Looks like the new Nomad is coming Tuesday!

sounds like 5 underutilized support resources to me

Ya know, I'm changing my tune about 32" wheels. I don't really have all that much interest in owning a 32" bike, and I fully expect most, if not all of the first 32" bikes to not be in my wheelhouse... But right now, I'd kill for anything that isn't related to an ebike to read about. Never before have I yearned to digest some bike stuff that just involved the measly 250w that I struggle to put out. So... bring on the 32" content please, I am primed and ready for it.

Back in my day we used to tie onions to our belts, it was the style at the time.

I'm curious.. How does the staff feel about doing the coverage like this? I've personally liked it. Plus, the fact that others have been able to contribute what they saw and liked at the otter is pretty cool...

Love those new Deity grips. Push-ons are king for comfort.

Found it..... "The reason facts don't change most people's opinions is because most people don't use facts to form their opinions. They use their opinions to form their 'facts'." — Wayne Gretzky probably

iv got one of these for Christmas and its actually really good. Think I paid £100 ish for the full kit on a black friday sale. The mountain industry has a gaping hole in it. Selling ppl £1000 forks £6000+ bikes and not even a fuck you on how to help setting them up accurately at home.. It is very slick, works seamlessly and I have so far improved my set up. I ride alone. My Mrs isn't gonna help me set my sag. It's allowed to me run deeper into my travel. Couldn't comment on the long term quality...

He's Canadian, that's a hockey puck.

Unfortunately I'm an idiot, so I'll answer your question even if it is sarcastic. I found a known value that's easy to measure, the rear brake rotor. I set it to 203mm (as mentioned in a bike check from my memory) 16.2cm = 6.377 inch, rounded up however the app used rounds things and also not a perfect angle. Closest match for phone size would be a Iphone 16/17 pro max at 16.3 cm or a google pixel 9/10 at 6.3 inches. I'm going to go with the iphone 16/17 pro max. I should touch grass. I'm also either going...

Now? I've been on MTBR long enough to witness the crash outs 10+ years ago. always remember, you are wrong, will always be wrong and you don't know shit about anything when it comes to suspension grand wizard Dougal (doctor, engineer, inventor, ONZ)

add dougal to that list now, Hes completely ignoring physics because he believes.

Soooooo, anyone got any rumors or should we rename the thread to "Hot takes and arguing"...?