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Quick scroll thoughts: Does the e2e on the Gamux shock look wildly long?? AON Racing = Team I-Beam Racing Bruni on ODI grips after running DEITY the past season or two Looks like Jordan Williams has the previous gen AXS shifter, not a POD. The Maven lever on the Commencal looks short, no? Bar ends are so freaking in On Tahnee’s bike, it looks like there is a screw head recessed in the spindle. Maybe it’s more weight? Anyone know what chainring Trek is running with an Ochain? Doesn't look like the new XX chainring. New Shimano rotors look cheap...

Mathieu Dupelle (ex Kona / Forbidden team manager) wrenching for Dak on the Scott Team.

The new rotors are called Shimano Rt6B750 and seem to be 2.2mm thick. The brake prototype is called BRG8000

Probably been mentioned before, but any guesses what’s up with these new Shimano rotors? Hard to tell if they’re thicker, and they look similar to the cheaper RT66 rotors Shimano currently sells. I wonder if they’re messing with tuning power via different rotors/pads? Or maybe these are a 3rd party I don’t know about.

So now we're back to "pick a wheel size and be a dick about it"? Anyone got any rumors?

I'm not sure if this is an indication it's close to release, but Norco just posted pics of the dh bike ahead of Korea and it's got "Team DH" printed on the top tube. Would be cool (and make sense) if they went back to the Team DH name for the race bike.

Oh it gets increased all right, a whopping 3 mil per size

i recently learned that a 2x2 lumber is not in fact 2" in size. americans are just completely crazy when it comes to sizing stuff.

It's cheaper than a lot of MTBs these days...

Looks like Laurie to me.

Quoting measurements to 0.01mm on an aluminium mountain bike frame; they are very very over confident in the manufacturing capability of the factory.

The only thing I meant to say is that there's no reason to rush out an update for the rear triangle when there is only a single drivetrain on the market that makes use of it, and one that would make the adjustments the current bike has more complicated to impliment. The next V10 should have it, because you're right there isn't a good reason to not have it on the next bike. Maybe a mid run update would be worth it if Sram drops a mechanical, or lower price point axs version but I don't see that happening really...

Rocky Mountain Underground - primarily a ski brand now dipping into mountain bikes, different from Rocky Mountain.

Gott damn, Dave Weagle sure does love his short chainstays! Also the increase of ~3.5mm per size is near pointless. And yes I know CS length will grow at sag.

DH bikes aren't made to have wide appeal to consumers, the current demo is an obvious sign of that. Respectfully, they do not care if the consumer would be miffed at an expensive cassette or don't really care about total cost of the frame +/- 500-1000. Besides, it's not an either or... maintaining UDH compatibility still allows for cheaper, standard mount drivetrains that have a variety of cost options. There is no reason that they wouldn't go to a UDH design when all of their other rear triangles are headed that direction. It seems obvious that they would go to...

Ai edit 26" is clearly unrideable.

That's why they are releasing this now: "Hey boss, can we start teasing the new goods? Not yet, gotta wait until thegromit orders the current version...."

Pbike rumouring size specific wheel size, seems very anti profit margin and a disaster for multiple skus and an aftermarket disaster

Most of you probably won't like hearing this. I certainly didn't. Earlier this week I had a chat with a guy who works in a product management role for Ralf Bohle GmbH, which is the owner of the Schwalbe tire brand. Mainly I asked a bunch of XC racing related questions, about compounds, casings, radial ply, rolling resistance testing, wheter we'll ever see the speediest XC casing with a black sidewall and why they felt they needed to change their naming scheme for casings and compounds. The gist of it is that they are hard at work behind the scenes...