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Ryan Burney Liked a comment about Feature Racing Four World Cup Winning Downhill Bikes - Vital's Summer of Downhill
10/17/2025 4:33am
I wouldn’t be surprised if we were technically a little faster with the o-chain. When riding the Frameworks with the o-chain and the V10 without it on the same day, I couldn’t feel a difference. That’s not to say there isn’t one, it just wasn’t large enough to notice. Most frame companies are working to reduce pedal kick and underside chain growth (which = more time the derailleur cage goes slack = more chain whipping). The V10 seems to be a good example of this, so there isn’t much left for the o-chain to do. Every bike will vary, but...
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Marcus J Added a comment about feature Racing Four World Cup Winning Downhill Bikes - Vital's Summer of Downhill
10/17/2025 4:05am
I run the old V10.7 with ochain and feel it makes a difference. Also most people who race the V10.8 seems to run ochain or similar. But could just be very marginal - marginal gains
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Marcus J Added a comment about feature Racing Four World Cup Winning Downhill Bikes - Vital's Summer of Downhill
10/16/2025 11:41pm
Will watch firsts thing when I get home from work! But if it is not answered in the video.. Do you feel you would improve times even more if the other bikes had o-chains or other anti kickback devices as well?
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Marcus J Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
10/15/2025 10:34pm Since I saw this one 7 years ago this is how I've bled all my shimano and it has always worked well. I use putoline 2.5W but used to use the normal shimano.
Marcus J Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
10/10/2025 12:50am If Richie races or not is up to Yeti, but for my part I love that he is racing! Kinda like AG, when they are in the race I always look for their list on the Q1-2 sheets, and when I have time to follow the livetiming he is one of the 5-10 people I really look for. I used...
AndehM Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/7/2025 11:22pm
Trying to focus this one the thread topic on hand, I'm willing to bet that when SC updates the Nomad and Megatower next year, they go 4-bar also. I have a Vala, a Nomad 6, and a Heckler SL, and strongly prefer the Vala kinematics overall. As mentioned above, it reduces anti-squat and anti-rise to a better level, which pay dividends in reduced pedal feedback when riding hard. The VPP design is nice for making a poppy, energetic platform, so it probably has a place on their shorter travel bikes, but I think on their longer travel enduro/freeride bikes, their...
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Ryan Burney Liked a comment about Feature A Piece of a Bigger Puzzle - Testing Specialized’s Gen1 Proto DH Bike
10/7/2025 10:53pm
I think the shock tune was for this bike and the fork was stock... We didn't get to dig into that much. The fork felt like my stock Ohlin's DH fork for what its worth so I don't think there was anything special going on there.
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Marcus J Added a comment about feature A Piece of a Bigger Puzzle - Testing Specialized’s Gen1 Proto DH Bike
10/7/2025 5:53am
Again, great review! Did you get all the "factory" options in the shock and fork? (the gold shit, not the electronics
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AvgMTBEnjoyer Liked a reply to forum topic Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
10/6/2025 11:28pm
It's okay though, the Tariffs will bring Hope back to the US where they so clearly belong, after they outsourced their engineering to Lancashire to make it cheaper 😂
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sethimus Liked a reply to forum topic Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
10/6/2025 11:28pm
wrong, you got hit hard by your government
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loris_74 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Team Rumors
10/3/2025 4:23am
She is wearing Velocio's jersey and pants : https://velocio.cc/collections/womens-off-road-jerseys/products/womens-…
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Marcus J Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
10/2/2025 11:29pm Where does she(anyone?) even find good blacked out downhill gear? Feels like everything has logos on nowdays..
SteveClimber Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/30/2025 12:46am
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Bomberone Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/30/2025 12:46am
Quote from Nicolas: "My guess is that its either a manufacturing defect or the frame was previously crashed and weakened at the downtube." or third option: construction defect.
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chriskief Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
9/29/2025 1:56am
Looking forward to the discussion on this. The public history tells the story of a founder cashing out at the peak of the boom, retaking the reins when things got rough, failing to make the necessary changes to the business, and ultimately having to declare bankruptcy. How do you hire Kolb mere months before going bankrupt? How do you run a flash sale mere days before your investor pulls any future financing? Decisions like those indicate a management team that did not understand the state of the business they were running or the market conditions they were operating under. Or...
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Marcus J Added a comment about feature New Kid On The Block - Testing Orbea's Rallon DH Bike
9/29/2025 12:58am
Great review as always! Been considering this bike as a way to downsize from the DH bike and enduro bike to one DH bike that I can set up for the occasional Enduro race or Finale Liguresque trip.
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Marcus J Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
9/26/2025 3:32am Rumor has it Kolb has been riding around on a Scott..
LePigPen Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
9/5/2025 6:20am
https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/2024-racing-talk?page=39#comment-47… (oh i wish link 'titles' worked differently, anyway, gonna have to dust this one off once again)
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Marcus J Added a comment about bike check Yeti 2025 SB160 Turq, Raw Carbon, Size Large
7/5/2025 11:42pm
You couldn't step back and take even one picture of the entire bike?
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hippyracevan@hotmail.com Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
6/30/2025 6:22am
As the parent of a kid who is looking to head down that path from way outside of Europe , I don’t necessarily feel no juniors would be a bad thing. I would be pretty happy for him to have a few more years of life and education up his sleeve before needing to move to the other side of the world to chase that dream. It would take the pressure of kids, especially non euro kids to “ make it” on the world scene at 17 or have to give up and head home.
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