All

If you're using a multitool on every ride you need to improve your maintenance routine.

2 beer koozies on the tool roll in the frame quiets it all down and leaves your properly prepared for parking lot beers. Different horses for different courses—no one cares where you carry stuff until you're stranded, and then once again, it doesn't matter as long as you have it. The engineering to get carbon frames with the tool storage is huge and very impressive, so it is definitely not a 'cheap' attribute.

By that metric....one of the 15 fastest ladies.

Dang that bike looks rad. I love the versatility of the three pivot locations if it really is as easy as just swapping a bolt trailside. Having the option to go from say 135-160mm vs 165-190mm of travel would be neat, too. I'll have to bug Chris to see about getting a test bike in the coming months...

Dunno why the convo steered towards travel numbers. Stumpy basically had 3 diff travel options at one point. Many brands actually use travel number as their model name more or less (a la Kona and Yeti). I think the bigger concern is having the same HTA and nearly same wheelbase for every travel size. And in those regards Spesh may arguably be one of the 'better' ones about that. To me their only distinct crime against humanity was the lowest BB possible trend which probably legitimately broke a few hundred if not thousand toes/feet lol So many good bikes to...

What the fuck is a kilometer?

tell me you are american without telling me you are american

The Irish would like to have a stern, profanity-filled word with you

Exactly! They are a couple, both are top contenders for a win on any given day, and she crashed out within 20 meters of the spot where Finn crashed 2 hours earlier. The inset video of her reaction was very small relative to the main action on the screen. It wasn't bad at all, and in fact would be standard practice in damn near every other sporting broadcast globally. In fact, it's even more relevant given that she competed on the same day, on the same track, and literally did the exact same thing!

Hope is a great company with admirable business practices. Then there's Specialized....they've made some great bikes (I've owned a few), but when it comes to business practices, not so great.

I was actually in talks to do some contract work at Pinkbike on their buy/sell page, but they stopped responding after looking thru my comment history. Then I got permanently banned.

Prize for round 2 was just delivered! Thanks Vital 🤩

Opinions are like assholes. Neither one belongs in tech rumors.

I think that's in line with the Olympics, Taiwan = Chinese Taipei. Whereas Hong Kong and Macau compete as such in name, but if they win a gold medal, the Chinese national anthem is played. I am guessing Taiwan has its own anthem played if it wins gold.

What is the new progressive geo that small brands are doing? There’s a lot of interesting stuff small brands make but geo genuinely seems to have found a relative figured out equilibrium.