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Ahab Liked a reply to forum topic What is going on with Thibault Dapréla?

6/30/2025 5:05am
That was solid gold.
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dantecusolito Liked a reply to forum topic What is going on with Thibault Dapréla?

6/30/2025 5:05am
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jonkranked Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

6/29/2025 7:18am
not to get drawn into a political topic here but that's what a lot of people don't realize in regards to domestic US manufacturing. it's not like we have equipment mothballed all over like the warehouse from ark of the covenant. it got sold / destroyed and is just gone. it's not "restarting" manufacturing, it's rebuilding lines from the ground...

mickey Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

6/29/2025 7:13am
The last draw benches suitable for aluminum bicycle tubing in the United States were bought by Boeing from a facility in CT(in a building built specifically to handle all the aluminum profiles and bar stock for Cannondale)in 2015 and are now being used to make replacement parts for b52 toilets. I worked with the New Haven chamber of commerce and an angel investor to re-start that facility to serve the remaining domestic 6061 frame builders for a few years, we even managed to draw a bunch of 7005 profiles for a few friends. The final aluminum Turners and Ellsworths, among...
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Primoz Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

6/29/2025 7:02am
It has color matching properties.
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TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic FOX Podium Inverted MTB Fork - Questions, Answers, Reviews

6/28/2025 12:30pm
Rulesman Hambini Diaz [I’ve redacted my comment about Dale Stone because I’ve seen two of his videos and that’s not enough to draw an informed conclusion] These are all content creators who seemingly never have anything nice to say about the big companies. According to them, everything’s terrible all the time and they’re the only ones calling it out, the voice crying out in the wilderness. I agree that the big companies do things that suck and that drive me crazy, but if you can’t ever say anything nice about the bigs, even when they notch a win? I have...
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sprungmass Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

6/26/2025 7:38am
Galfer released floating shark rotors. The Kashima one would look pretty rad a Podium fork. Too bad it is not 2.3mm thick. Also in their Instagram comments they said their own brakes should be coming out in 2026. https://galfer.eu/bike/galfer-takes-its-shark-line-to-the-next-level-wi…
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lemon Liked a reply to forum topic What is going on with Thibault Dapréla?

6/26/2025 7:37am
Long time wc photographer D ave Trumpore left this comment on pinkbike in relation to Daprella not being included in any photos. " if you punch someone in the face and don't get charged with assault that doesn't mean you didn't punch them in the face... and often times money buys silence ;-)" supporting the allegations and rumours of a payout/ threat of legal action to sites. Is quite saddening to see allegations of such a nature be so easily brushed under the rug with money even in the small world of mtb.
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Uncle Cliffy Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

6/26/2025 7:03am
Ah, I see you’re also a man of culture…
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I also read that statement in the context that it is applicable to single crown forks. i wonder how the equation would change if they tried to package it as a dual crown. if they were happy enough with the podium to put it into production, I would be surprised if they aren't at the very least assessing a dual...

kokokorokokoko Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

6/26/2025 5:36am
St Ablead After the 14th century St. Ablead who removed carbon waste from the South China Sea by hand, sacrificing himself in the process.
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Re: lack of 180 option, from the other site: "The primary reason we're not seeing Podiums with more than 170mm of travel comes down to weight - adding any more travel necessitates higher chassis stiffness, and that meant adding even more weight to an already heavy fork."

LookinForIt Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

6/25/2025 2:18pm
If I had to guess, that zip-tie on the linkage is so people don't try to cycle the linkage because the shock doesn't work. I find it much more likely that the rear shock isn't pressurized than someone went through all the effort to make that frame but it doesn't work. It's way easier to make a bike frame (especially with that lugs-and-tubes design) than a functioning rear shock that can contain the 200psi people will cram in it. I have doubts the company will survive coming into the market with such a wide range of offerings, historically it seems...
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veefour Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

6/25/2025 2:18pm
Using weed based composites in vehicle production is nothing new, they were doing it years ago. 🤣
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