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klinkekule Added a comment about bike check YT Capra Pro Race - full Praise Jeebus edition
2/25/2018 1:31am
Thanks for sharing it on insta
People seem to like it as mush as i do
And since a lot of people seem to wonder - there is a 3mm difference between this bike's seat height and a same generation medium with a reverb when dropped, and 33mm compared to a new generation medium if the new generation frame sports a reverb. So by sizing up and getting a revive the old generation of the frame can be given a pretty contemporary geo seat tube length wise, and if you buy you second hand you can get modern...
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2/24/2018 12:49am
dialed!!!
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Added bike check YT Capra Pro Race - full Praise Jeebus edition
2/22/2018 11:32am
klinkekule Added a reply to 2018 Racing Rumors
2/7/2018 1:16pm
the bike was originally launched in 2014 as the Capra. Back then everybody understood that Capra indeed meant goat. While it is nice that people constantly remind us of the fact that capra indeed means goat - in particularly since a lot of people might have forgotten since 2014, the premise for the latest posts has been that GOAT...
klinkekule Added a reply to 2018 Racing Rumors
2/7/2018 1:50am the AC signing and gunning for the ibis team aka #1 team in the EWS both makes sense separately - and even more if both are true. Clever marketing if that is the case. AC still have Rachel beat for the GOAT award on the female side right and YT seem to sign a lot of the these older legends...
klinkekule Added a reply to 2018 Racing Rumors
1/22/2018 2:24pm BOS posted this photo earlier today - so old frame, but dead give away for the fork. 
klinkekule Added a comment about feature Vital MTB Face Off: The Best Heavy-Duty Disc Brakes
12/21/2017 1:32pm
thorough review guys, but i am a bit surprised that you do not back the qualitative insights of how the brakes perform with actual quantitative measurements - aka the (german) Bike method of dyno'ing the brakes to accurately test different parameters with a given/limited set of variables. The test method you have chosen gives a fair few good insights into what differentiates the different brakes in how the tester perceives them to be during use, but does the chosen analytic approach sufficiently negate individual bias or individual differences due to less than perfectly set up brake sets or negate differences...
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klinkekule Added a reply to 2018 Racing Rumors
12/11/2017 4:02am so, the new spectral was launched today, but i think we can expect one more bike to drop pretty soon, aka the bike that has been depicted earlier in the thread that is the longer legged ripper. The depicted bike is clearly not the new Spectral - the shock was the first clue, followed by the shape of the down...
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12/10/2017 3:25am
klinkekule Added a reply to 2018 Racing Rumors
11/16/2017 2:38am lighten up man.
It is not the first time that the folks over at Pinkbike have made such an article if i remember correctly, nor are they the only mag that have made such articles presently or in the past. Vital does not own the "between seasons rumors debate", a topic that has been widely discussed on other forums...
It is not the first time that the folks over at Pinkbike have made such an article if i remember correctly, nor are they the only mag that have made such articles presently or in the past. Vital does not own the "between seasons rumors debate", a topic that has been widely discussed on other forums...
klinkekule Added a reply to Coil Shock + Trail Bike
10/10/2017 2:26pm you should switch to a 450 or a 475 spring. I just talked to push about setting up an 11/6 for the same frame, and a 450 should be the run of the mill spring on that frame given your weight if you prefer to be at the high end of that spring's range, while a 475 could work if...
jeff.brines Liked a product review Purpose Built Top Level Enduro Bike, But Beware of New Shock Tec
9/18/2017 12:45am
Hey Vital MTBers, Jeff Brines here! This is not a formal review like I am accustom to doing, just some thoughts on my personal bike – a 2018 Trek Slash 9.8. Yes, this is the bike I paid for and chose as my race bike going into next season (even though I'm not sure how much I'll be racing in the first place). For a guy like me the bike seemed to check most of the boxes – stiff, good suspension kinematics, fits me well (long), bottom bracket that will minimize pedal strikes even running 175mm cranks, and numbers that...
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klinkekule Added a reply to Prototype Polygon DH Bike at Whistler?
8/11/2017 12:54pm say what? The makulu he re-emerged on with Unitedride was certainly not crap and got better reviews than many of the aforementioned bikes from SC, Trek, Spesh and Giant, even the team was smaller. As for his current bike, the guys at Unitedride have basically had the opportunity to develop the bike they wanted with Polygon, and have ended up...
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Added bike check Goat in the sunset - YT Capra
1/27/2017 8:43am
klinkekule Added a comment about feature First Look / First Ride: Intense Spider 275C
3/31/2016 2:17am
Very nice bike indeed. Interesting how the Factory model, which sports a very similar build to a YT Capra pro race - albeit with less travel and more xc style components, costs 3500usd more from Intense than YT. Seems like a somewhat expensive upgrade from x0 to xx in my book
And yes, i do realize that the two bikes have very different applications, but their build kits are like the trail and enduro versions of basically the best from the same manufacturers.
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Added bike check Morewood Makulu
3/30/2016 3:06am
klinkekule Added a reply to 2016 Racing Rumours
1/12/2016 12:39pm as much as it pains me to say it, i think specialized did a good move on the Gwin part. Sure, not having the top american rider in their squad is not beneficial by any means, but getting the über likable and superb future prospects of Loic&co is a move for the future indeed. I really dislike specialized and am...
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Added bike check YT Capra pro
9/15/2014 11:35am
