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tsewhsoj Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/26/2026 8:29am
I’m dying of thirst over here
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TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic Incredible life span
5/24/2026 4:52pm
This thread is blowing my mind, because I've had pimples that lasted longer than some of my alloy wheels.
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jasbushey Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/23/2026 6:47pm
I am not seeing how the last 4 pages of this thread have anything to do with rumors or innovation.
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AgrAde Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/18/2026 4:30pm
I'd much rather fix a carbon bike with a damaged downtube than an aluminium bike with a crack. Between the two, my money would be on the carbon bike having the longer lifespan. Aluminium fatigue is a bitch.
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Big Bird Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/16/2026 10:25am
Remember the good old days when we talked about bikes on here?
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hamncheez2003 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/16/2026 10:24am
Wait till you hear about Volkswagen!
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Primoz Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/16/2026 10:23am
This might help with placing it in history 
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sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/15/2026 11:03am
evil DH bike?
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Bobsmothersbrother Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/14/2026 7:04pm
This is only true in a certain ecosystem. To not get caught you need significant amounts of money to fund the doping at the edges. Most athletes don’t have it. doping was widely discussed in EWS circles pre UCI merger. The fact doping in sport is illegal in parts of Europe regardless of whether or not your governing body is a wada signitory, and that’s probably what pushed EWS over the edge. At the same time, posting in forums claiming specific, named, athletes have doped, without proof, is shitty behaviour.
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sweaman22 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/13/2026 5:12pm
In Western Canada Roberts composites is good. I've used them twice; both times service was great and you can't tell there was a repair. https://robertscomposites.com/
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Bobsmothersbrother Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/12/2026 6:13pm
One thing missing here is the fact that with the proliferation of composite know how, there are more people around able to safely repair a wider range of issues. Rather than pretending we are recycling carbon bikes I’d love to see more frames designed in ways that facilitate repair. Repair is verifiable in a way that recycling is not, it is cost effective for everyone concerned, and it is as close as you’ll get to good for the environment. It probably flows on to other design decisions to ensure repair is viable (like bearing placement, etc etc), but designing bikes...
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ShapeThings Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/12/2026 6:13pm
There is a little predicament in the Persian Gulf that that means the hunger for recycled plastic has skyrocketed. Ironically, the moron-in-chief is going to make electric cars, recycling and efficiency a lot more economically attractive in the land of freedumb.
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Jakowitz Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/12/2026 11:48am
All these aerospace grade components and I still can barely get any air.
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Thomas_van der Ploeg Liked a bike check Gull Bikes Chip Bandit 149
5/12/2026 7:05am
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seanfisseli Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/11/2026 11:22am
Would love to see this convo moved over to a thread called “thermoplastic debate/discussion” or similar. This is a dead end technology for now but I understand that a lot of you like talking about it.
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AgrAde Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/11/2026 10:06am
"To what extent to you agree with the following statements? thermoplastic carbon mountain bikes fit well with the way i go out and come home in my daily life"
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slimshady Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/10/2026 5:35am
Technologically, that's comment carcinization happening in front of your eyes. Evolution is a biatch.
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iceman2058 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/10/2026 5:35am
Cartert Bilawchuck is a 16-year old who made his own bike, it ended up looking incredibly polished - and rad ( it was a lock for Vital BOD of course too)! This deep dive edit is full of insights into the trials and tribulations behind pulling off such a project, I figure it should be of interest to the followers of this thread:
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sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/8/2026 9:29pm
G-Out Project Pro DH Mountain Creek - https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/g-out-project-2026-pro-downhill-serie… and one of neko's 32 for the sake of triggering
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Jason_Schroeder Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/8/2026 8:52pm
Not to disrupt the 32" hub spacing convo but - I'm linking up with Specialized next week to ride/film a video on the new Demo 11. I want to focus this video more on getting everyone's questions answered about the bike since we will do a proper test of the bike later this summer during our DH Test Sessions. So if you have anything you want explained or answered, drop a comment here - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/specialized-demo-11-what-do-you-wan…
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