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He’s at Leogang

I'm at Leogang this weekend and wanted to get a sense of how widely pedal kickback devices have been adopted by World Cuppers, along with all the other wild accessories like TMD's/shakeweights, electronics, gearboxes, and more. So out of curiosity and as a service to my fellow nerds, I stood at the top of Q1 today and counted all the devices I could. Note that certain devices were almost certainly undercounted, like shakeweights, added mass, and fancy chainring devices like Ochain or Rimpact (drivetrains were facing away from me in the starting lineup). There were 20 bikes total where I...

Somebody always does this in Leogang, but it never starts to look like a normal thing to do, eh?

XO is way beyond XT and closer to XTR , GX is more compareable to XT from my experience.

Transmission derailleurs aren’t cheap either, xo is 800 and XX is 950. Shimano pricing is on par with high end sram. It is also back compatible with existing chain and cassette. Transmission made it so you had to buy all new pieces when it was released.

Not gonna lie this leak got me excited New Evil bike for sure, no idea what model it could be It has frame storage, bolts are different Looks like the flip chip design has 2 big bolts rather than the 3 smaller ones it had before Can’t wait to see what they’ve done! (EDIT by @sspomer - PUSH asked us to nuke the photo as it was an accident that it went live)

Yes, but grammatically it covers both here.

thoughts on this - leogang will have fewer surprise/new/up-and-coming-rider performances than last week. for some reason this track seems like a place where experience means a lot and those who've raced it for a decade or more will handle the .01's of a second better than the "kids". you can't go checkers or wreckers like loudenvielle (where that strategy paid off for a good few). could be way off and i'll curse anyone on my fantasy team like normal, but...

Probably a TRP question, but I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess TRP says no. Going to go out on a further limb and guess that someone in our brake forum is going to try it and say it's the best thing ever.

lol didn't even think of that. If it helps, Nick at Shimano said you'll die if you use the wrong one. Good luck!

I annoyingly just thought of a better meme:

Yeti engineers when discussing how many bearings to use:

Crestline went DJI. Wasn't on my 2025 E-bike Bingo card That's a full power, 800wh battery bike. Jeebus!

Phil Atwill mentioned something similar on his sleeper podcast about a syringe that dripped water to his rear brake https://www.instagram.com/reel/C58ajzDM9Dq/

Got to see trackside clip of Thirion in the steep chute where his fast sector was. Good grief folks. The man is made of gravitational pull!

Ken, I think that DHX2 might be a special orientation of the resi for fitment? https://thelostco.com/products/2026-fox-dhx2-shock-250-x-75-mm?srsltid=…