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Heres the thing, and I'm not trying to be a smartass here. People, are different, and, like different things. Thats really the end of. Maybe a "helper" or "progressive" or fanfriggindangled" spring is a great idea for some people, on some bikes, on some terrain, with their own style. Also "Dude" is a pretty confrontational way to start a comment, on a thread about rumours and innovation. Its all cool man, maybe someone takes that idea, uses current tech/manufacturing/packaging and makes the next greatest thing. We dont want to miss out on that do we?

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy6qQxlM3kF/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== New Helm I guess?

It sounds like he didn’t have a great experience with the fork, and had a job to do. Which is to write about his experience.

Fork was sent in 2022, so likely a 2023 model. Oh gosh a year beyond release on a fork that’s still widely available to consumers, how utterly ridiculous for Seb to write about its shortcomings as a heavier rider. Who hurt you.

Let's be honest, DVO stuff is just hot garbage, if they no longer existed tomorrow no one would miss them. For the last 3 years they were saying no one needed a 38mm stanchioned fork, now apparently everyone needs one.

afaik everything w/ vital raw is normal. it was almost easier this year than in years past.

Gwin now owner of Windrock.

i'm pretty blown away to have to say this to grown adults (i assume) in our forum, but every time someone trolls or says something you don't like, quoting it and explaining why it's lame/unsavory/kooky/political only makes the thing you dislike live on for days. in the history of the internet, has anyone ever changed their mind and said "you're right," after being challenged/critiqued/criticized/called out in a forum? not that i'm aware of. the garbage has been moderated for now. if you don't like something said here, use the thumbs down, move on, watch it die and it'll be forgotten...

This years team rumours thread is one of the worst. No hype. No good rumours. A bunch of bitching and name drops. Dick swinging competition followed by gossip and other bs.

Well we know where the trolls that get banned from other forums end up.

Is this still the team rumours thing? Asking for a friend.

Absolutely noone wants to read your political posts, and your name dropping really isn't helping either. Loads of folk in the chat have contacts with high level names in the mtb world but dropping them like you are doing is just weird. We are all here for fun team rumours chat not politics. Take it elsewhere.

Buddy, lots of people on here have done lots of cool stuff, are doing lots of cool stuff, know many amazing people and are also very involved in the bike industry at many different levels or are those people that are racing. They just don't use it to try to boost and make it seems like their comments or opinions matter more than others. If you want to be taken seriously I'd chill and show some respect to all the people you name dropped enough not to use them to try and elevate yourself above someone else.

Maybe something’s lost in translation, but you’re sounding pretty much like a serious douchebag. Hopefully you sober up in the morning and edit your post.

Hello everyone! There are some fresh rumours from the German website mtb-news.de. I will sum up everything. Some rumours are well known, but there are also interesting new... (sry for my English) - Vali Höll back to YT - Sam Hill to YT - Trek factory racing: 2024 still with Reece Wilson and Loris Vergier, Kade Edwards maybe racing some events and not part of the racing team but Trek sponsored, Sacha Earnest could join the Factory team - GT factory racing is done, Wyn Masters will stay with GT (new manager? support other riders?) - new Intense and Mondraker...

Article up on the other site about a new Specialized patent for the "Under Bottom Bracket" linkage seen on the new Demo, represented by a 172mm bike that sure looks like it could reasonably be the next Enduro. Overall the information they give (some examples of anti-rise, anti-squat, and leverage rate with 5 different upper link positions/sizes) is basically right in line with newer trends of moderate progression, but there was an interesting bit halfway down the article about anti-rise: “Changes can be made to the design of the brake mount and/or the rear braking system that attaches to the...

New coil shock from Intend in the works? https://www.instagram.com/p/CyvLifFt6Jp/?img_index=2

Vorsprung shock