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The holes increase airflow around the stanchion, aiding cooling and improving damping consistency by 11%. As a side note, 80% of statistics are made up on the spot.

All the big bike companies "times are tough, we have to cut back on race team budgets." Neko "Lets start a 2nd team."

I like that they're still encouraging the kids to excel at school at the same time (listing their GPAs). Way to lead by example Neko & FW.

I ran into chucky in Laguna a few weeks ago and he was rocking an Ari, a huge grin and a great attitude. Dude is so nice, I miss watching him race.

If I can add my 2 cents here. I don't think Sram paid Jack, or the team, anything. That whole YT deal is that they run whatever they want because they don't take money from any sponsors. Now I think that was changing because the industry is struggling and they probably saw how much money they were losing out on. My best guess is YT asked Sram to pay to support the team and they said no, so YT doubled down on the TRP/Fox association they had already been building. Vali would be the only one I could see saying...

Charlie Harrison un-retires and joins Ari Factory Racing. Max Beaupre also joins for eMTB. 🤘

That's odd. https://youtu.be/W1-9iJFJmpk?si=bI291D9uVPcT5csr&t=1042

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.

It's clearly to change bar flex characteristics mid-run. Maybe if you were an elite athlete like the rest of us here, you'd understand these things.

I'm going to guess August based on absolutely no information anyone actually told me.

AP running mass damper, ochain and brake arm again

i think it's a fantastic track for testing (kinda has everything including some decent speed and riders probably know it well and can feel product tweaks easily), just bonkers so much stuff is out in the open at such a popular locale.

wonder if it'd be worth renting a car from jan to march and just living at TOTW parking lot to snag shots of stuff being tested?

went to check in w/ Chris Canfield at Vampire last week. super interesting stuff. showed his steel and new titanium bike and discussed it all. detail pics here https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/vampire-bikes-basement-chris-canfield

I kinda fell for it. I used to like loud-ish hubs, but not I9 loud… Admittedly been on Onyx hubs for a couple years. Can’t deal with excessively loud hubs anymore.

Pretty sure the old ones went to 11 already. New ones will have to go to 12

not defending one way or another, but here's a bike in the middle of the muddy race from last year (loudenvielle). not much in the way of grime on the front of the fork.

Well I can only guess that they are hyping in an extra dramatic manner because they probably redesigned their stem and then realized it still looks like every other stem out there… just a guess.

Fuck your seals. Sincerely, Fox

OneUp releasing a revised contact plate for their new Clip Pedal. On the one hand, good on them for addressing an issue quickly. On the other hand... really seems like something that should have been caught before the product launch.