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I want to believe, but the schwalbe radial magic mary is just sooooo good

Somewhere, Brian Cahal is popping Champagne.

when someone wins an enduro world cup on it

If you had asked me a couple of weeks ago, "What are the chances you buy a Yeti in the next 6 months?" I would have said 0%. Today, 80%.

XXL Reach will still be a wimpy 495 tho

Posting this here because it seems more bikeonomics related than tech rumours related, but it's sort of in reply or brought about to the discussion going on over there. I'm curious about eMTBs's impact on the MTB "market cap", whether you want to measure that by industry dollars or total number of riders or some other metric ("rider cap?"). I don't think this can be answered decisively as we haven't had enough years of clean data (setting aside any data-gathering difficulties or whether that's really happening industry wide) in the sense that eMTB has really only taken off recently in...

It will be interesting to see where they end up with as far as the new Enduro... Do they follow the new Demo like some think or refine what is still considered a capable bike?

That saddle angle is unforgivable

it is if you know where to look for it.

Just like GP forums, I swear. Where's that new specialized again? Patent for the 170mm design lodged in 2023 iirc. Enduro is going through a multilayered image crisis, but still the largest segment of bikes within my friend group. Meanwhile dual sus single crown overall still seeing plenty of updates. Did rider perception/wants/needs change or should the definition of enduro bike be malleable and rhyme with mall fountain?

Will we see a new Enduro?