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And since I know everyone here freakin' loves purple anodized parts and spending $10k+ on bikes, Yeti released its 40th Anniversary ASR - https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/yeti-releases-40th-annivers… It does look pretty BALLER

wear a shirt with Rob warners face on it

are the rules so specific that a rider has to face the crowd? show up w/ back to crowd so there's not a single usable podium photo

mmmmmechanical drivetrain baby

just put up some pit bits from tennessee national this morn https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/pit-bits-2025-tennessee-national

Not a clear screen shot, but Orbea DH in the wild with a cover. From Tahnee instagram, looks like it’s working well

New FOX products (specifically shocks), which have been frequently mentioned in this forum, will be released on March 31. Info through the FOX distributor in Chile. Pedro Burns rode a DH race this weekend using the prototype coil shock.

Redbull and Freecaster were better for two reasons: 1. I knew how and where i was going to watch a race, no matter where I was, every single season. 2. Rob. And not just Rob, but the money Redbull pumped into him to have him learn to go from stealing Cedric;s beers in the Freecaster booth, to someone who could announce an F1 race if they needed him to. No matter his co-announcer, save for Elliot who's been a perfect match up so far, he became the official voice during Hill's Val De Sol disaster in 08 and that built...

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This is crazy, but hear me out. What if the housing came out the bottom of the seat tube and ran along the outside of the downtube and then to the lever? I get what you're saying, and we're never going back to mass adoption of external routing. But it's insanity that electronic droppers are being offered as a solution to a problem the industry created and could so easily solve. It's like a horror movie when the person being held in a room realizes the door's been unlocked for quite some time and they could have just walked out.

I know I'm late to this party, but the difference between a 650b front wheel and a 29" front wheel is enormous in terms of stack height. The same head tube length will be 40 mm lower on a 650b front wheel and 650b specific fork. Especially in a world where manufacturers are already running teeny tiny head tubes (90mm!!) on some size small bikes to get that stack down for small riders, a 650b front wheel makes a big difference in getting small bike geometry and extra large bike geometry into the same ballpark of body position and handling.

They have so much space behind the seat tube to install all that hardware. Looks like a fun project.

Hoping @CascadeComponents can chime in on what they think @CascadeComponents are up to...

While I'm here. Is it rude to spread my own rumors? Yesterday I released v2 Digit frames. I don't have a marketing plan so for now I've just posted a list of improvements here: digitbikes.com/blog/changeblog. I'm also going to start selling a frame-only option, and an aluminum wheel build.

Jenna won as many races as Jake Jewett last year. ...and she won the Women's Elite New Zealand Continental Series race this last weekend beating Sascha Earnest who by many accounts is a podium threat for this upcoming women's World Cup season. It's fun to pretend she's only around because her and BK are together, but I think a tough couple seasons for injuries made us forget that she's actually pretty fast and was a Junior World Champ.

Who gives a shit about how reliable rivians are, anybody's thoughts on EVs, etc, in this thread we should almost always be stoked when non-industry sponsors (making a OEM tailgate pad doesn't teleport them into the industry guys) get in on our guys and gals. Good on her for looking outside the mainline sponsors, who are all on the struggle bus right now, and towards somebody who, for now, is swimming in their scrooge McDuck vault of VC money. Get your bag Kate! Edit: Those sunglasses upside down and two inches from her head in that photo there turn what...