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we claim Russell Crowe, Sam Neill and split enz as our own but there are some we won't take lol. I genuinely love the NZ ethos on solving problems with fk all resources. The engineering talent is insane, the motorsport development is world class, with a population the size of a suburb in America. By the way, we are claiming Liam Lawson.

love love love love love this... MORE bomber paired with Cues/Deore! Less SX/NX paired with Recons or turnkey silvers and an Xfusion shock... This makes it so much easier to recommend FS bikes to beginner on a budget without whipping out a detailed spread sheet of what you will probly want to budget replacing within the first year or so. Ok buy this bike BUT, replace the derailleur. Buy this bike BUT, consider replacing the fork in a year. Or trying to convince them to jump off the d2c cliff, buy this YT/Polygon BUT if you have an issue you...

Pretty sure these builds exist to outfit bike parks with their rental fleet for the year.

Bought by people who want tyres that are really knobbly and fast on road.And have 'gel' saddle covers.

This might be the most unexciting bike I've seen in ages

Go look at inflation, high end bikes have always been expensive. In 2004, an SWorks Enduro was $4800. (Around $8500 today). In 2009, an SWorks Epic was $8800. (Approximately $13,000 today) I don’t understand why everyone suddenly thinks the sky is falling. Next everyone will be complaining that $250,000 for a Huraćan is insane because a Countach used to be $100,000. It’s not like you were going to buy one anyway.

The TR11, Smuggler, and Spur are the only non-trunnion models. The Spire, Scout, Sentinel, Relay, Repeater (PT and EP8), and Patrol all have trunnion mounted shocks.

I believe.......... it is a bicycle. (Sorry)

You guys are so serious about mountain bikes. I'm getting a good laugh this morning. 😄

There's Shimano on the new Status also. Think it's likely the final spec. Specialized seem the vary between Shimano/SRAM on a year to year basis.

That is nice. Spec hasnt locked it away on the last stumpy evo. I think thats something they are probably sticking with. I still want to see an alloy enduro but its never gonna happen

Until the front fell off.

Yeah, and at least in the past, even alternative xtr/xx1 sworks builds. No, I just tought shimano is phasing out SLX already (I stopped looking at it before summer, but it was a dificult groupset to source parts for, at least in europe)

The rear tire says infact 27.5 Seems odd to me that they come specced with SLX, aren't we waiting for mechanical transmision? Maybe its a mockup photo, waiting for the release

That Pro/Expert looks mullet to me....anyone else?

wait, Psylo ? edit: just realized it had been released already. My bad

It's a 3,6k € Specialized.