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Well it's January 1st here in Kangaroo Country.... spill the beans.

Dude either post what your got for rumors or say why you don’t like cascade. Did you buy a link and break your bike?

This is not a tech rumor so I’m not going to talk about this again. What I will say is we haven’t seen a single case of frame damage due to regular use. Frames are pretty overbuilt. Your wheels are more likely to blow up first. Ask me how I know. Off the top of my head, I can only remember two instances where serious frame damage occurred. One was improper installation and one was incompatible shock. We actually paid for the crash replacement frame for the incompatible shock case because there was a typo on our website that was...

It would definitely be cool to work with more companies on aftermarket stuff. I’m not really sure why there’s pushback with links. No one (there are a couple of exceptions) is doing different options for their own bikes. It wouldn’t really make sense from a supply chain standpoint. The volumes aren’t on the same level as complete bikes. More options are always nice to have.

That's all good and well but lets face some facts here - Cube bikes are junk (I worked closely with the brand at a distribution level), the kinematics were average at best and the frame failure rate we saw was out of control, more than 50% of carbon bikes sold came back with cracked frames and they were horrendously slow with turnaround time on replacement frames, always looking for excuses. Saracen is a walmart/whatever brand so no matter the caliber of the rider you'll never get results riding a piece of crap down the hill. Personality or not, Danny Hart...

re: canyon (and possibly other big brands)? it's an XC olympic year. could the big dumps and a brand like canyon be for XC talent at the olympic level? i have no insight or idea, but have to imagine olympics are at the forefront of budget talks for brands w/ an xc bike. re: danny - as mentioned above, he has a very solid social and youtube presence. to say he's "kinda invisible" speaks to the way the system works IMO. he's not an over-the-top personality on camera or vlogger with click-baity/controversial subject matter, so he's not recommended by the...

i put this in the racing talk forum too, but hooray for #USDH! https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/monster-energy-pro-downhill…

The Fluid Focus IG post in case anyone was interested - https://www.instagram.com/p/CzM3aLPPpEQ/

I’m all for paying racers good money but if all you sponsor are racers you’re missing out on a huge portion of the riding market. Most of riders don’t care that much about racing.

Exactly. I’m all for people making money riding bikes, but it’s a bummer that sponsorship deal went to an Instagram “influencer”, rather than someone who’s actually out racing and trying to make a name for themselves.

It was pointed out a ways back, but Intense is going HARD with their history posts. That tells me that they're gearing up for a new team launch?

Really interested to see how juinor mens world cup dh plays out next year, originally would have just been thinking it to be primarily dominated by asa but with Tyler waite from nz riding the yeti dh bike and presumably getting support from yeti at world cups next year, we might have another goldstone vs williams situation

I just converted that amount into Aussie Dollarydoo's. WTF! That is absurd. Literally my face....

Ratboy getting on some fresh suspension and brakes from Formula: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/josh-bryceland-joins-ways-f….

I hope that's true. Harrison seemed like he was just sick of being injured and "retired" out of frustration more than anything. He was always fast when healthy and fun to watch. Was Whiteley his agent as well?

Eagle derailleur was feeling left out - so I made a thing - replaces the washer on a standard UDH dropout with a "Brace" that links the rear derailleur for strength and stiffness.

I don’t think they’re really a great fit for Evil - not that they’re not good people. Just not a fit for Evil imho

I guess Vali on YT is true, but I'm still hoping for something else....

Respect to the Hills, wish them nothing but the best! Even if Sam was to decide to step away from racing for good…. he has nothing to prove, he’s done all that already, put his stamp of DH/Enduro racing and inspired a lot of people along the way. Given the current state of the mountain bike scene and racing I can’t blame them for taken this time out, given the kids a life that will help massively in the future if they want to pursue the Moto racing full time.