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It‘s the officially released Dissector in 32“

They've shown these off at least a year ago. Plus the idea is not completely novel even for Outlier... Plus plus, if I understand correctly Outlier's goal was to lower the rider CoG. There are other reasons why you would want your pedal surface to be below the pedal axle. Besides copying an out there product to fill up your product line and fill your CNC machines (as per Lewis). Case in point, they didn't even iterate on the bearing-axle layout much.

The pursuit of proportionality is completely arbitrary. Imagine if Minnaar’s bike shared all the same proportions to his body has Brosnan’s does. Shit wouldn’t fit in the gondola!

Re: Size specific wheel sizes (relevant to current Megatower vs Nomad chatter) If every size is on a different wheel size aren’t those pretty much a different model of bike at that point? Won’t the S with 27.5r and 29f ride totally different than the XL with 29r and 32f even if it’s same frame/travel? I’ve played around with mullet and full 29 on multiple bikes and also overstroking/Cascade link to change rear travel and of those 2 I’d have to say changing the rear wheel size had a bigger noticeable effect on the overall riding experience.

There will be a push for OE spec. Much of the launch marketing was that DH proves the effectiveness of the product, but they have a place on enduro/trail bikes. SRAM buying OChain is so they can get OE sales on higher end spec. Probably reasonable cost at OE level with a complete Transmission drivetrain, and a selling feature for a SRAM spec'd bike that the likes of Shimano and RF cant offer.

New Scott Spark in maybe 32“ coming?

Exactly. The XL is a 29er but he wants to run a Mullet. He talked about it in the german mtb-news bike checks

I think it's a modification to be able to run a 27,5 wheel in a 29er rear triangle. As the wheel is smaller, the axle needs to be lower to keep the geometry of the bike. Thus this thingamadood to lower the axle position. I guess it's two aluminium blocks anchored in the (elongated on the V10) dropout hole to prevent rotation and bolted together as much as possible.

Mathieu Dupelle (ex Kona / Forbidden team manager) wrenching for Dak on the Scott Team.

Looks like Laurie to me.

"10 Years Raaw" sounds more like a special edition paint job than a new bike, but fingers crossed for an XXL downcountry bike.

Most of you probably won't like hearing this. I certainly didn't. Earlier this week I had a chat with a guy who works in a product management role for Ralf Bohle GmbH, which is the owner of the Schwalbe tire brand. Mainly I asked a bunch of XC racing related questions, about compounds, casings, radial ply, rolling resistance testing, wheter we'll ever see the speediest XC casing with a black sidewall and why they felt they needed to change their naming scheme for casings and compounds. The gist of it is that they are hard at work behind the scenes...

“Hey do you guys have a spare HighGear perimeter seal and lower case bolt o-ring in stock? I’ve got a race this weekend.”

is this gonna be a daily driver in „UK winter conditions“ though?

Kind of hilarious that the marketing line is that "you don't have to deal with the complications of a normal idler" - like this isn't the world's most complicated bike 😂 I think the highgear thing is cool but the design of the frame around the bottom bracket seems a bit awkward. Even with the frame protection I don’t like those thin-ish carbon edges. The fully open linkage area is also a concern - yes mud can get in and out, but in UK winter conditions all of those interior surfaces are going to get wrecked by any fine dirt...

I just got word that Scott is about to release the next generation of the Spark RC. Feel free to wildly speculate what wheel size it's running on...