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Yeah, it's almost like internal cable routing is an enormous PITA no matter where it shows up on a bike.

Their EWS factory team runs spesh tire, yeah?

The slow rebound rubber rather than stupidly soft has been preached by Michelin for at least 5 years, probably a bit more. If these work like Michelins I have no trouble imagine that they work well and wear well. Also a DH casing coming in at ~1300g in 29" isn't really a DH casing, most top DH tires are more around 1400-1500g in 29" these days.

3 punctures on one day and I would blame the PSI gauge.

Interesting perspective. So are you saying there’s no difference between a VW and an Audi or a Toyota and a Lexus or a Maxxis and a CST?

The VW/Audi analogy doesn’t work. Audi was previously owned by Daimler Benz and before that was Auto Union and before that separate company’s, hence the 4 rings. Lexus and Acura are just the American market premium brands for Toyota and Honda, well originally. This is what Cheng Shin did with Maxxis essentially, created a new brand to sell at a premium.

Your analogy doesn't prove what you think it does. Cheng Shin wholly owns Maxxis, just like Toyota owns Lexus, Honda owns Acura, VW owns Audi and so on. These sub-brands are created (not acquired) by the parent company to access a specific market. They leverage shared financial backing, shared applied technology, shared physical and intellectual assets, etc. to manufacture different product lines. Just because one division operates in Taiwan vs. China vs. anywhere else does not show that they are different companies. Maxxis was the vehicle that allowed CST to break into the American market. Maxxis claims proprietary compounds and...

The factory that produces Maxxis is Cheng Shin. You can Google it my dude.

Why not do like Magura, thicker rotors? Yes, it adds some grams, but from my experience it works better than thinner rotors on long decents.

Yeah, it's kinda weird to me that Shimano is dragging their feet to release thicker rotors and bigger rotors. Everyone else is making 220+ rotors that are 2.0mm or thicker, but Shimano keeps making small/thin Icetech rotors and insisting "it's better." Why not both? Hard to imagine heavy e-bike riders complaining about 220mm 2.3mm thick Icetech freeza rotors. When braking, more is typically better, especially when it helps keep heat down in a mineral oil brake system that doesn't like getting cooked. I know they offer the Deore level stainless rotor in a 220, so why not an Icetech or...

Hmmmmmm....may need to call Mythbusters or Veritasium.....but, black and white shed thermal energy at about the same rate, assuming that more energy (heat via light) is not being absorbed into the mass. caloric dissipation would be about identical...so, shall we say "Marketing"?

There is more to life than Wikipedia ;-) The black and white lacquered faces emit approximately equal amounts of infrared radiation. The reason for this is that white and black only appear as such within the visible light spectrum. If only the emitted thermal radiation is observed, which has longer wavelengths than visible light, both the white and black faces appear as so-called grey bodies; in other words, both radiate all wavelengths within this range with equal intensity. By contrast, the thermal emission of the metallic faces is much weaker. To that, your source seems to not let science get...