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Blake_Motley Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
1/21/2025 4:00pm Hopefully they bother because belt drives are cool and good
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Blake_Motley Added a reply to Bypass tubes on mountain bike shocks or forks? (Trophy truck tech)
1/21/2025 2:25pm Doesn’t seem very heavy when that’s the curb weight of a Ford Raptor, and I usually see those used for grocery shopping instead of the Baja 1000
mericanradness Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
1/19/2025 12:28pm
^ I came here to post that, pretty good article. Another thing I was thinking about today is what affect this dive in sales has had in technology overall. If your company is struggling a good business minded owner is gonna batten the hatches and try to weather the storm with smaller inventory numbers and low outlay on r&d and pretty much everything else. How many bikes have truly been game changing since 2020? A few for sure but not as many as we were seeing at the height of the geometry wars. And while a lot of these companies...
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Blake_Motley Added a comment about feature What's In / What's Out - Mountain Biking in 2025
1/3/2025 4:08pm
Just search up “mini bike air compressor” and check out the shopping results. The one I’ve seen in action was off temu and it worked
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haen Liked a comment about Feature What's In / What's Out - Mountain Biking in 2025
1/3/2025 1:47pm
This guy gets it. A higher bb is especially needed if we're going to have to have longer CS on larger frames.
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Blake_Motley Added a comment about feature What's In / What's Out - Mountain Biking in 2025
1/3/2025 1:46pm
You can get a battery powered compressor that’s the size of a mango flum vape
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Blake_Motley Added a reply to The Mountain Bike Bearing Discussion
1/3/2025 9:39am Aren’t ceramic bearings a scam? I remember seeing that all their alleged benefits disappear as soon as they’re under load. I’m at work and haven’t seen this video in a while so someone let me know if I’m right. https://youtu.be/o7iZVfSDbiA?si=qB6XlgViS41czS0u On a separate note, something I learned from my time in the industry is that almost everyone is undersizing their...
Blake_Motley Added a comment about feature What's In / What's Out - Mountain Biking in 2025
1/1/2025 12:42pm
In: higher bottom brackets and higher stack. My wheelbase is 1300mm I don’t need a 340mm BB anymore
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Blake_Motley Added a reply to Enduro is Dead, how would you revive it?
12/31/2024 10:10am I think it’s interesting that the best coverage I ever saw for the EWS was the specialized On Track series. I’d be happy to see the UCI create something similar to follow the race series.
Alec_Ruston Liked a bike check RAAW Madonna V3 - Now with a BoXXer 😎
12/25/2024 12:22pm
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Blake_Motley Added a reply to How would you measure pedal kickback?
12/23/2024 3:19pm The derailleur clutch works opposite the suspension so it does contribute at least a small amount to inhibited suspension even if it’s not “pedal kick” per se. Hypothetically since ochain damps chain forces, it could also help your derailleur not whip around quite as far (ergo therefore etc your derailleur stores less energy), so there could be some overlap there
ishouldridemore Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Team Rumors
12/20/2024 5:34pm
The Chances of Daprela ending up at pivot whilst Siegenthaler is still involved is 0 - not to go back to shite talking about rumours but she was maybe the strongest hater of daprela when all “that” info came out
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Blake_Motley Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
12/18/2024 5:56pm If you think what rumors have done to Daprela is bad wait til you hear what Daprela did to that woman
Blake_Motley Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
12/17/2024 3:14pm What is Jakob too old for him now?
Snfoilhat Liked a comment about Feature Shorter Cranks - Are They for You?
12/16/2024 8:32am
One possible improvement to the article would be to add citations where you say stuff like “There has been a lot of research into crank length…” Another would be to then admit that these primary sources are mostly from cycling contexts other than mountain biking, and so generalizing from road to mtb requires caution. Another option is to avoid the issue by not doing pinkbike style pseudoscience that claims to explain everything in mtb in authoritative style. Exploring questions well is worth way more than giving chatgpt answers with an equation copied out of your old physics textbook.
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iceman2058 Liked a comment about Feature Shorter Cranks - Are They for You?
12/16/2024 7:06am
You have to define "harder" to answer that question properly. If your talking about power, then the answer is no - if you spin the shorter crank faster, you make the same power (power = force x velocity). You don't actually consume more watts with a shorter crank, so in that sense you're not more tired at the top of the climb. IF you run out of gears, then yes, it will be more difficult to turn the crank over in really steep sections. On more mellow, steady climbs, I actually found it was less "hard" to get to the...
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sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
12/12/2024 5:30pm
First round of 2025 Pro Downhill Series announced - Rock Creek, Apr 3-6
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haen Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
12/11/2024 5:30pm
I don't know where you get the idea that NA is more technologically advanced than China. At least on the electric car front, China's putting out better products than the US or Germany from what I've read.
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DrewskiNorcoFan Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Team Rumors
12/10/2024 8:49am
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDX7ifITS4_/?igsh=MTdzb3NiaWR0dzJjMQ== Free Agent This guy has one of the biggest smiles out there and always seems to be smiling. Great rider, hopefully he gets picked up by an amazing team.
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Blake_Motley Added a reply to How would you measure pedal kickback?
12/3/2024 8:19am Ideally you’d get data on a slow chunky section, a fast chattery section, and a fast chattery section where you slam on the brakes for ~2 seconds. People tend to disregard high speed sections because they assume the hub will never engage, but that stop being true as soon as your wheel stops spinning freely.