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Frameworks with what looks like a 29” rear 32” front prototype

I hope they are going to call it 32Fox32Furious!

While I’m no 32er apologist. I’m old enough to remember this exact argument when 29ers came out. I was working at a shop in College when 29ers started to hit the market, people would come in and actually get pissed at us for having 29ers on the floor. Anyone remember anti-29er stickers on people’s cars? I can remember a few different stickers, one said “One less 29’er”. I even remember being at a trail head in Pisgah in college, my buddy unloaded his 29er from the back of my truck and a “local” said “those aren’t welcome here”. No one...

Recent post of Cube XC Factory Racing Instagram, 32" XC bike won some race

Ollie with Forbidden Bikes was bombing around at Mount Washington today on an unmarked frame resembling the eeb layout but the front triangle appeared to be slimmed down with a more conventional BB area. Had a Lyrik on it, no pictures unfortunately.

Brutal for Finn. This was his strongest position going into the break, was it not? 2nd overall with 3 to go? (in a season with the biggest names struggling or out) Speshy went from how cool is it they are still winning to... How cool is it they still have a rider left in the series...

If you're at all familiar with the evolution of the drone industry over the last decade, you might have made the observation that DJI was to the commercial drone industry what Amazon was to the bookstore industry 15 or 20 years earlier. If you don't have a problem with a single Chinese vendor taking over 90% of all e-bike options, then I guess we just keep doing what we're doing. They definitely make a good product, but how hard will they try when they've wiped everyone else out? Just one outsider's observation.

That's not really how it works. They designed the bike around a max rider weight of 100kg and all the forces that would be associated with a 100kg rider ripping it down DH tracks (i.e. category 5 conditions). Given that the Cube team races (or will) these at WC level I assume it's more than burly enough for the average Joe. Not to mention there likely some sort of safety factor as part of the design so an extra 1-5kg probably won't mean the end of the world...just don't tell Cube that when filing a warranty claim.

Most (nearly all) mountain bikes have a maximum weight (mass) limit. They just bury it in the manual and don’t advertise it. I know the previous generation Demo frame had a limit in its manual also.

It's friday and that sounds like the perfect time to start a fight about wheel sizes again! Not exactly MTB, but Cube is supposedly dropping a 32" gravel in it's 2027 lineup. Saw this image floating around, first brand to commit to 30.5" ? Would hate to be an inventory manager right now...

Well it's up to the rider for buying a frame that is not rated to their weight. Don't get me wrong, I'm not protecting them and it's something that would make me hesitate buying a Cube A LOT if I was in the market, but the fact of the matter is that they communicated that fairly well via their site. Better than most other brands I'd say. You have a ton of components that don't even have a category of use attached to them.

Medium-travel Yeti incoming. Release iminent. Long-chainstay fans rejoice: Size L has a 450mm rear center. Geometry is very middle-of-the-road otherwise, in a good way. Size L has 480mm reach. Stack could be a little taller, I guess (- 635mm for Size L).

mass and force are different. “maximum mass” is actually the exact right wording to nullify your question about g force.

It's a pretty rad system. My Vessel dh bike has 16mm of r/c adjustment in 3mm increments with an 8mm bb height adjustment that is independent of any suspension kinematics due to BB system design. It fun to mess with this stuff and not have it impact other areas of performance. Truely isolating the variables, as best as possible that is. Really help to hammer home how much the fc/rc bias really impacts the bikes ability to turn even if the wb is pushing 1350mm

Adjustable rear-center without any change to kinematics, travel or wheelbase, clever.

Interesting, it mentions the "horizontally adjustable BB position" but not much beyond that? Also this bit will be a deal killer for a lot of riders out there.

There does seem to be something there.

Cube just released a bunch of new bikes, the new downhill bike looks good (especially at the price) and it has a very interesting feature, it seems like the BB position is adjustable! It's a bit cryptic from their text but this is what I understand from their text and photos. It's the first time I see this https://www.cube.eu/fr-fr/cube-two15-slx-deepteal-n-clouds/1174600

Why not, instead of crank arms, make crank discs? Solid 304 stainless steel. You could put several holes in there, offset, so you can choose different “crank lengths” just by switching your pedals into different threaded holes. Adds weight, centered right around the bottom bracket. Ultimate bash guard as well! I should be an engineer. I’d succeed big time (or not).