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30+ years ago bullet bros was trying to solve the same problems.

Some sort of UDH +15mm chainstay standard would fix a lot of XXL bikes.

Torrent is clean. Bottle rocket is adjustable freeride. Quake is a capable race geo. (Iirc) Different bikes for different folks . I freeride and park my race bikes - and xc ride my enduro bike. But the world does seem to want FUN 27.5 park bikes and the racers do seem to want FAST DH WEAPONS. Why can’t we have both? The marketing isn’t even for us. There are literally armies of 15 year old boys AND GIRLS! Getting really into modern freeride, just riding down shit and off shit and being park rats in jnco jeans where I live...

When everyone knows new bikes are to be tested in Transition's parking lot

Yeah, but they are quite similar - frame geos are within a few mms, same shock sizes, overall layout / shape looks the same, yada yada. I would not be surprised if SC staff was told - "we need a new bike with as little engineering costs as possible - why don't we reuse the designs of the late GT frames, tweak them a little and make them more SC-ish?" The story telling - the pedaling improvements, long vs short travel for VPP etc. is just vitriol-inducing pure marketing bullshit. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter...

Sir, I believe your bike has a cascade link.. so wouldn’t that mean you’re the one that called?

I'm not talking about damper architecture, Charger 2.1 vs 3.1. I'm talking about the individual tune that the bike manufacturer puts on the stock bike. The shock can have the same eye to eye and stroke dimensions + same Charger 3.1 damper, but one frame OEM uses medium compression tune, and a different frame OEM uses a light compression tune. That difference in stock tune can be more influential than leverage rate and a bunch of other factors unless the buyer/reviewer is going to do a bunch of aftermarket work. If you're talking about stock bikes with equal build spec...

IIRC he relieved (i.e. dremeled out) the arch of a 27.5" fork to cram a 29er in there and then raced it at Fort William so this seems reasonable compared to that...

One of the guys that got us here: RIP Mert Lawwill 09/25/1940-05/06/2026 Mert Lawwill the mountain biker.

That's why they are releasing this now: "Hey boss, can we start teasing the new goods? Not yet, gotta wait until thegromit orders the current version...."

I have very limited (none) education in engineering, and i still can't understand the need for two chains? To snap a chain in a straight line demands more force than a sprint from the start gate. So please internet, give me some answears!

Honestly, the Reya is the first XC bike that I really, really want to try as a 6'3" individual. I feel like that jack nichelson nodding meme as I work my way down the geo chart on the XL. Edit: Can we also agree that peak bike industrial design is a straight top tube that aligns directly with the seat tube... connecting the top of the head tube to the rear axle with an un-interrupted straight line?

It’s almost as if the chainstays are proportional…

I know this is dangerously close to a chainstay derail, but I love that Forbidden made a 120mm bike with a 464mm chainstay in the XL size. That's real long, but if you don't like it you can buy literally any other XL lightweight 120mm bike. Curious how it rides. Could be sick. [Editor's note: I THINK THIS COUNTS AS AN INNOVATION]

Reya could be the perfect bike. #rearcenter

gonna come around the corner with my conventional helmet and low-side on spent RLS helmet marbles I can just feel it

You guys should take the arguing to PMs so you can effectively yell into the same echo chamber. In here, we should discuss upside down suspension stuff. You know, "Stranger things, season 4, forks and stuff"

the answer is nobody knows but intend

For inverted forks I clamp the stanchions in the bike stand and remove the bike.

Isn’t that just an Azonic Headlok?