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I love Sam's riding but didn't need a couple minutes in the middle of him riding down a road failing to pop manuals. They possibly could have toned down the BWEEEEEeeeeeeeEEEEE eeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEE

I'm still part of the Rocky Mountain team, so no immediate impact for me, for now. Thanks for asking! Still a lot of unknowns right now, which is normal considering the whole restructuring and change of ownership. I'll learn more next week and in the following ones. For warranty parts, my understanding is that it'll be a shift towards a more industry standard process of having prepainted parts in stock. Like you said, it had it's pros and cons.

A bit more information available on Bikes.com: https://bikes.com/en-ca/pages/new-acquisition-faq Headquarters are indeed staying out East, but moving from Saint-Georges to the Montreal area. Here's also a bit more information regarding the group of 4 new owners: https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/a-new-era-for-rocky-mountain-a…

Can anyone with more info translate this news? Who is Chaos and do we think they’ll do a good job for Rocky as a brand? Vultures or not? I also assume this means Rocky headquarters will stay in the east.

Chaos Sports keeping RM in Canada https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/a-new-era-for-rocky-mountain… Hopefully that means good things for @kperras and crew

sadly not limited to vital......

Do you wake up every day wondering "who can I be a d1ck to on the Vital Forums today"? Assuming good intent and extending a modicum of kindness takes almost no effort; give it a try!

May be, just may be, I’ve already tried to search and if we don’t count Extension Bikes, who have almost all the info regarding their new enduro bike uploaded on their website, all the others don’t have websites or share no additional details in their Instagrams. Think Wissco can be found on some sort of a website, but it’s all in Chinese with no translate option, so it’s as if there’s no website. Seemed only logical to ask the people that were there physically to share something more! Given that some prices are shared under the photos here, while...

USD fork hype sending Fox to the moon 📈📈📈

Copying the 5Dev cranks tells you everything you need to know about a company. All they care about is looks. The originals are a horrible engineering design. They should have copied Came Creek EEwings. But that would require some skilled welders and not just feeding a CNC machine. Innovation would be using ultra high strength steel from the automotive industry and make a tubular crank that uses the same axles as RF, Cannondale , FSA and all the others that use that same axle.

Theres now a forum for this that will allow you get super nerdy https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/modern-geo-talk-chainstays-stack-re…

Fuck those cranks. There's SUCH a good structural reason why holes in cranks are a bad idea, with the exception of the sram cranks. The reason that all those 5dev cranks break despite not being very lightweight is 100 level shit, and I hate that the mtb industry is stupid enough to entertain it. A 2 dimensional truss structure is fucking terrible in torsion, and most of the crank arm sees a LOT of torsion. Then you've got all the stress concentrations with all the internal corners, and that multiplies your max stresses by a lot again. The reason why...

I agree. That sentence is bizarre. I'm weirded out by the implication that choosing a longer or shorter chainstay length would be a compromise, but somehow choosing a 438mm chainstay length isn't a compromise? Every geometry decision you make on a bike represents a compromise. They're all trade-offs. Either that, or Canyon and friends have stumbled upon the Platonic ideal of the form "chainstay length." We're all in the cave over here, but at Canyon they've unshackled and transcended bodily existence to discovered the one true form of bike geometry. So meta of them.