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Who’s to say it is a Enduro bike, could just be another frame built up with a fork they had laying around, the Zeb can go up to 190mm remember, and least it would be a rolling chassis for the likes of the engineers and test riders to ride and test different characteristics.

Maybe they're just having a bit of fun with us.

Agree, more people still have issues with Richy Rude and Jared Graves failing a drug test in 2018 than BK who is currently hooking up with a 19 year old staff member who was under age when he first became her boss.

I agree. He’s her boss.

Asa on Frameworks confirmed Furthermore 5Dev stepping in as major sponsor

I know this is the internet, but multiple things can be true at the same time. Could Gwin have been wanting to help a fellow 'merican? yes. Could it have not been possible to sign him for more based on the teams budget mid way through the year? yes. Could Dak have deserved better compensation? Yes. IFR could have "taken advantage" of the opportunity to sign Dak for less than they may have if the situation was different. "Taken advantage" does not have to be framed in the context of abusing a situation or person. It could just be that...

Exactly. It's as if I mentioned this before but was shot down by people wanting to believe that Gwin was helping out a fellow American. Dak's contract is far from great, IFR had all the leverage because of his bad luck with the YT timing and they really took advantage of it. People may not want to believe it, but it's the truth. The guy deserves to be on a better program with better compensation. On that note. It sucks to hear about teams potentially folding, but from my understanding, there are actually some new teams and money coming into...

yeah, he said that also in a interview. I don't recall which one, too many vlogs

Dak was quite vocal on the last Inside Line podcast about his financial status riding for Intense. Unless his contract terms improve substantially he'll get poached by another team for sure.

DAMPING

Gonna unsubscribe from the forums for a while. Let the rest of you have a civilized chat.

I’ve drawn some lines to create a triangle that illustrates why it doesn’t move if you were to lockout the shock. The pivot up on the seat tube by the yellow line is fixed. The pivot that is the red circle is effectively fixed when the shock is made rigid. Those two points define the blue line. The green line and yellow line are fixed length. As a result their positions are completely defined in space.

from our g-out project at world champs. always something in the way but you can see how the upper link moves and the chainstay pulling the lower link.

A few things I don't think there was that much to hide to be honest we all knew, well most of us knew it was a modern version of some Italian bikes such as DM and Ancillotti from the early to mid 90's I think maybe its more the shock they have been hiding and not the frame, this seems a bit of a set up with the bike being photographed on the edge of the van and inside the van, its not like anyone was hiding it. Lastly if it is super secret and this is a leak its...

Not the big reveal from Specialized marketing I was expecting.

Too much victory water at Snowshoe?

Finn’s mechanic right now:

I bet someone isn't super happy with someone else.

the experts on this thread would say that this was planned to give advantage to the euro-narcissistic racers that ride under rain and cold, conspiracy from organizers to also make the UK riders feel at home ; )