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deadatbirth Liked a bike check deadatbirth's Intense
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jimmy chu Liked a bike check 2013 Intense Tracer w MRP coil
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Jotegr Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/12/2024 2:55pm
Dear Mr. President, there are too many states nowadays. Please eliminate three. I am not a crackpot!
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whitesq Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/11/2024 1:55pm
I'll also add, there's so much dogma in the bike industry, you can't do X because it has such bad Y...etc. We're not totally impervious to this thinking, but with this project we made it a point to actually test these assertions and sort fact from fiction. An example, from the start I felt we had to do a 20mm axle because everyone says so, it was Darren that commented how much it sucks to get a new fork and then realize your wheel doesn't work with it. So we tested and found the diameter has much less influence compared...
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whitesq Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/11/2024 1:55pm
I am in the engineering department at Push, and we're all big fans of the Vital community! - Matt I guess I should prefaced that manufacturing comment, before I get the "my buddy owns a casting shop and ..." 😂 So for starters there aren't many magnesium casting suppliers in the US (probably because of safety issues 🔥) but funny enough there is one just down the street from us. The problem with most US manufacturers is size, difficulty, volume, and capacity all have to align before they are interested in any new work. In my experience this is fundamentally...
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metadave Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/11/2024 7:39am
They said last year in @sspomer 's excellent podcast with the WAO crew, that they were getting out of the frame game because they didn't make much on them once they finished making sure it was perfect. Dustin loved making it and they learned a lot but it wasn't worth continuing and they were doubling down on components.
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ebruner Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/10/2024 6:34pm
I think one of the things that's most difficult for consumers, and even inside the bike industry pro-sumers to understand is how difficult and expensive the tolerances are for mountain biking products. This is likely the other big factor in the cost gap and perception gap between moto parts and full vehicle costs (other than the other large one that is economics of scale). Any time you are specifying a tolerances that is tighter then +/- 1mm, things start costing way more, and the amount of suppliers that are capable/willing of taking that on plummet. Beyond that, the amount of...
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anotherbikerguy Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/10/2024 1:50pm
https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/upside-down-push-nine-one-fork-finall… Consider listening to the interview Vital did with Push when the fork dropped. Covers many of these questions.
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haen Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/10/2024 1:50pm
On EXT's IG post of the inverted DH fork, someone asked when the single crown version drops and they confirmed that it's in the works.
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mullet.biking Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/10/2024 1:50pm
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sprungmass Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/10/2024 9:02am
There were rumors that WeAreOne were leaving the frame building business due to financial troubles. Now it looks like their website doesn't have a menu item for bikes/frames anymore. https://www.weareonecomposites.com/ Also their wheels have been discount on and off 20% for almost the whole year.
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whitesq Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/10/2024 9:01am
😅 We stubbornly wanted to make the sliding bushing work so bad, probably delayed the whole project by a year. At the end of the day in blind A/B testing, riders couldn't tell a difference so it was ease of service and manufacturing consistency that pushed us to fixed bushings. Mountain bikes are similar to motos in many ways but also different, so not every moto concept is a good fit for us. Sure, putting sliding bushings as a feature on our spec sheet would look cool, but if it isn't actually better we're not interested. And yes, it is...
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