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While I’m no 32er apologist. I’m old enough to remember this exact argument when 29ers came out. I was working at a shop in College when 29ers started to hit the market, people would come in and actually get pissed at us for having 29ers on the floor. Anyone remember anti-29er stickers on people’s cars? I can remember a few different stickers, one said “One less 29’er”. I even remember being at a trail head in Pisgah in college, my buddy unloaded his 29er from the back of my truck and a “local” said “those aren’t welcome here”. No one...

"... Horsting them will make them objectively better." there's is nothing objectively better about about a Horst link layout, all it does is provide a lower anti rise, which has its trade offs with geometry preservation. I sincerely hope that Kona doesn't go away from single pivots, because I like bikes with higher anti rise and the slight firming of the rear suspension does not bother me in the slightest, where bikes that pitch forwards under braking do. Honestly, Kona needs to trim skus down, they way too many budget and low end hardtail and those need to go. Getting...

If you're at all familiar with the evolution of the drone industry over the last decade, you might have made the observation that DJI was to the commercial drone industry what Amazon was to the bookstore industry 15 or 20 years earlier. If you don't have a problem with a single Chinese vendor taking over 90% of all e-bike options, then I guess we just keep doing what we're doing. They definitely make a good product, but how hard will they try when they've wiped everyone else out? Just one outsider's observation.

Apparently nobody talking about the weight of ebikes remembers that Raleigh Choppers and Grifters weighed well over 40lb. The luckiest kids got Bombers which were about 45lb.

Adjustable rear-center without any change to kinematics, travel or wheelbase, clever.

I suppose the weight limit is just one more argument for them to refuse warranty claims rather than a strict limit, the bike is not going to desintegrate under someone 120kg. There is no mention of the adjustable BB in the geo chart, I can’t understand how companies can be so bad a communicatif basic info about their bikes

Interesting, it mentions the "horizontally adjustable BB position" but not much beyond that? Also this bit will be a deal killer for a lot of riders out there.

I’m well under that and the fact that a DH bike has a max weight at all kills the deal for me.

It seems we're in the beginning of the reverse-weight-weenie era, in which bicycle riders will be asked to pay more and more money just to add grams to their bicycles.

we tested the reaper powerplay 24. it was a hoot for my boys, but didn't quite hold up under grom huckage for very long. it also made them pretty salty at having to pedal a regular bike for a few months after lol https://www.vitalmtb.com/product/guide/e-bikes/rocky-mountain/reaper-po…

Update from Bike EU: The Amsterdam District Court has revoked the suspensions of payments of the Dutch Accell companies and simultaneously declared these companies bankrupt, the two court-appointed trustees announced this afternoon. The consolidated factory in Hungary has stopped production. There are six entities listed on the Dutch insolvency register: Accell Duitsland BV Accell Global BV Accell Group BV Accell Group Europe BV Accell Group Holding BV Accell Nederland BV

I never thought this thread would require such a thorough education in EU insolvency/bankruptcy law...but here we are.

Never thought I would long for the days of gearbox debate on the tech forum but here we are.

How did we ever have fun riding bikes as kids before batteries and motors? What a terrible childhood I must have had.

Without diverting this too much, but adult on a full power eeb towing kid on lightweight kid-sized bike solves this problem better, as long as you're riding winch & plummet trails. Which is what a lot of the young rippers prefer. If you're doing rolling up/down stuff, then towing is less practical.

Wow. Seeing a Tomac 205 with a belt drive gearbox wasn’t on my bingo card this year.