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A picture is worth a thousand words!

bowling ball visual flair ain't cheap

The paradox is if you're a true Scotsman you'd never spend the money. 🤣

Scottish Flag makes me believe that this is a World Champs special paint job

Teams own the points, not riders. This was one of the issues brought up (that I wholeheartedly agree with) when this system was introduced. What happens when a team folds? I hope there’s a mechanism in place for a logical solution to this but I doubt it. WBD doesn’t want deadbeat teams, they’ll be fine letting someone else figure it out for them. YT Mob would be on their 3rd strike now?—deadbeat status in my book. Riders blew it not fighting this one harder. Teams, too, honestly. It diminishes the true stars of the sport. Shameful, and shoots the whole...

Spotted over on Pinkbike -- Ronan Dunne running his tuned mass damper in a novel location. (More like a tuned ass damper, am I right? Sorry, I'll see myself out.)

Thank you for the information! I went by our local place yesterday and they did some tires and said ride it. For what parts and all are they said riding it and getting better at riding it is perfect! They recommended saving my upgrade money and getting a stump jumper with full suspension. We shall see! Hit the trials yesterday and today and man I have missed this!!

The general consesus has been that mid-height pivots are the way to go. High high pivots brings some negatives. The problem with mid height pivots is that your idler (and maybe even chainring) has to be very small to fit everything together, which brings with it inefficiencies. This way they could package everything in a way that makes sense kinematics wise. 2chainz is a consequence of pivot height, not the other way around.

Mind: blown. Sounds like one could save $23 with 30 seconds of good ole angle grinder action on one's old ones.

Shimano released a new SPD cleat today. Compared to the 30-year-old SH51 cleats, the new CL-MT0001 cleats feature an additional ramp at the back of the cleat, which Shimano claims improves walkability and functionality—enabling back-to-front and top-down clipping in addition to the traditional front-to-back motion. The new CL-MT0001 cleats are backward compatible with all SPD pedals. If I were asked at the start of the year to guess which longstanding Shimano product would finally see an update in 2025, SPD cleats would not make my first twenty guesses. While 30-year development cycles don't bode well for those holding out for...

Welp looks like my SH51 cleats are getting the CL-MT001 pedicure tonight courtesy of a angle grinder.

Amaury's trying to figure out how the linkage works like the rest of us

A normal length stem on the Aon/Gamux team bike is the real story.

team rumors.

just got pit bits in from rick. transmission DH derailleur and cassette, and more new demo pics below.

I know it's been discussed a bunch already, but got another pic of the new 40 at the Fox pit in Les Gets. Didn't get a pic of the dials, but looks like it's still running Grip X2. Dials looked the same as the current gen 40.