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I felt the answer about the price was a little weird. They're not trying to recoup any costs, so they're implying it's a construction/materials thing that makes the price. Again, 350s on a bike of that price doesn't sound like it's a spec choice, and hearing that price isn't a reflection of R&D just makes it raise the question further; Where on earth is this price coming from if NOT R&D and pro-team economics? It certainly isn't the spec. Loved the video otherwise, thanks a ton Jason.

Without looking at any numbers for it, I'd assume the link primarily gets used to control leverage curve and the dog bone primarily gets used to correct geo. You may very well have combos where the alterations to the link would produce undesirable geo on their own so a dog bone has to be used with it to get the geo right.

Editor needs to double check some of the ratings spoken with what was posted in the text box.

I actually really like riding loose over hard. It’s majority of my summer and fall riding season. I love a good 2 wheel drift session. The Assegai has scared me a few times though.

I’m very scared of a dhf on the front. Pretyfun as a back tire though.

I hated the Assegai. It would inconsistently wash a couple inches to the outside mid turn when leaned over. It made it hard for me to commit to weighting the front end. On the same trails I've never had that happen with a DHF, Magic Mary, or Tacky Chan. I don't have an issue with tires with a big channel like the DHF. I want a tire to be consistent and the Assegai was not.

sorry, it's not ebike talk, but here are pit bits photos from leogang https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/pit-bits-2026-leogang-world-cup-dow…

Torrent is clean. Bottle rocket is adjustable freeride. Quake is a capable race geo. (Iirc) Different bikes for different folks . I freeride and park my race bikes - and xc ride my enduro bike. But the world does seem to want FUN 27.5 park bikes and the racers do seem to want FAST DH WEAPONS. Why can’t we have both? The marketing isn’t even for us. There are literally armies of 15 year old boys AND GIRLS! Getting really into modern freeride, just riding down shit and off shit and being park rats in jnco jeans where I live...

The Torrent isn't for bike nerds. It's for people that set it and forget it and spend their day lapping A-Line and Dirt Merchant. And for that purpose, the Torrent sounds like a perfect bike. Simple, reliable (hopefully) and affordable.

Not trying to be argumentative but I do completely disagree with that first point. Quake... MAYBE, but anybody wanting to race I think will look elsewhere. The bottlerocket is blatantly marketed as not a race bike. I guess the status DH isn't talked about but I think its a sleeper sick bike. Maybe because there's one at my LBS that's for sale for 3k out the door. The industry needs as many cheap aluminum double crown bikes as it can handle. Bike park laps on these types of bikes is in my opinion the purest form of the sport. Just...

That’s such a LENZSPORT thing to do. And I’m not mad at it.

Article on Pinkbike is up. Mullet alloy park/freeride bike for Brage essentially.

Never fool yourself with complex conspiracies when trying to explain private equity bro.

Not sure if I should be proud or embarrassed, but I recently wrote down every bike that I’ve owned (and can remember) in a spreadsheet. Across genres including kid bikes, mountain (DH, XC, Trail), road/gravel, BMX, and dirt jumpers, I have owned 102 bikes. Some of these are just new frames with swapped over parts, but I consider that a different bike for this purpose. I might have a problem. The most bikes by far are BMX (26) and DJ (19), as I was a 6 night a week skatepark kid growing up. I wish my skills were better for...

the turner is mine, I recently rescued it...... only thing I'm not a fan of is they could not figure out the Hayes brakes on it and replaced them with these newer shimanos. will be getting correct brakes for it. I've been gathering up relics like this for a few years, have some other cool ones as well..... m3, dhs slammer, original v10, race link, and a bunch more