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I'm here to defend (good) trail associations. I was the first Executive Director of Evergreen MTB Alliance in WA State in the early 00's and then on the exec committee of the board for another 10 years. We (both paid crews and volunteers) built tons of tech trails, and yeah a lot of flow trails and jump lines for the masses. I think a good balance between the styles. Behind the scenes we fought HARD to keep open the unsanctioned areas - areas I rode and may or may not have spent countless hours digging at That fight wasn't...

Isn't it more likely to drive adjustments to fracking regulations than bicycle mobility?

We will see. Unlike most people in this thread, I'm not as much of a believer that $100/bbl oil = more (specialty bike) sales. It may drive some mobility e bike sales, but I don't think its the needle mover everyone else thinks it is, especially when it comes to mountain biking. Also, as a reminder, oil was over $100/bbl for most of the early 2010s and I don't remember it being a huge driver to the bicycle industry's success. Energy costs eat into everything and generally leaves people feeling poorer. Its inflationary. So if anything I'm more a believer...

This is probably more relevant for the main tech rumors thread, which has evolved into pretty much just the stream of consciousness for us vitalers regardless of topic, but what if we had a bot that counted comments, and once a specific topic gets more than 5 comments in a 24 hour period it auot-comments and suggests a new topic for it?

I cannot believe how inane the convo around 32 is. Please, people: you are saying the exact same things they said about 29.

I’m sure I will catch flack for this and don’t want to make sweeping generalizations, but if the chainstay thread is anything to go off of, it would seem that a lot of vital posters genuinely don’t seem to understand why someone would want a “playful” bike. It felt a bit like trying to explain why a manual transmission sports car is fun to someone who in response keeps insisting that you really should get a cvt as it is more practical. At 5’10” I know I personally am not the intended audience, but can say that even if I...

E-Dreadnouth? Gee, that sure sounds like an odd name.

From what I have heard, Slayer is turning into an 200mm park bike with a silhouette like the current altitude. Wish they would have revived the Flatline namesake for it.

It's actually dumber than that. To make the numbers work: "Front center" is measured from BB to front axle as you've depicted, but "rear center" is just used interchangeably with "chainstay length" and is the horizontal measurement from BB to rear axle.

My 2020 Norco Optic looking great still with all these new short travel bikes...

Use the notwithstanding clause - that shiz works on everything.

You gotta play the game...drop some hints. We can play yes or no. Is it a sub 50lbs dh ebike with 150nm of torque and a solid state 1500wh battery? New solid state ebike batteries that charge in 5 minutes AND Rocky is installing ebike fast charging stations at the Dumpsters?

Thomas Genon is joining Rocky, so now I'm thinking that's the announcement coming and not a new bike. Ha ha

Some big automotive companies probably noticed the bike-biz-boom around 2021, some people saw $$$, then corporate hierarchies and decision-making kicked in, in glacial speeds, and now that the first ripe products trickle in, there is a bike-biz-slump. And makes it look like there was bad timing or wrong intel. But that is just my uninformed guesstimate.