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Actually, Yeti is interesting. With Camille retiring. They surely have some budget. Assuming they'll wanna keep Tyler Waite if possible. But they'll want another elite male or female to replace Cam surely?

My hunch is that to fund Dak's 2026 on Frameworks racing, you'd have to crowdfund at least $250,000 to cover his salary, mechanics salary, travel, food and accom for both plus extras. Big question rumor wise though, are Frameworks looking to expand? More American talent, a junior to replace Asa? Another elite male?

FWIW, when I talked with Steve at Vorsprung about testing a Smashpot (I have one on test right now), he was excited to hear that I'd be pairing it with a Lift. The best and worst part about a coil spring is how active and frictionless it is compared to an air spring, and Steve said the stock Charger 3.1 damper provides less support than he'd like to see for a Smashpot coil conversion. In contrast, air springs inherently have more friction in them, which is just another form of damping. I'm excited to have more detailed thoughts to share...

Steep trails, ebikes, and the Lift are a trio I'm missing very badly at the moment. I had a couple unreal days in Santa Cruz this spring before Sea Otter, like top-10 days of my life good. You're squarely in the yellow tune range, so I'd definitely go with that. At your weight, you'd also probably really enjoy a Noken in your Zeb to make it little more coil-like. That (and a little more pressure) will really help your dynamic ride height.

This just may be the review I've been waiting for. Bought a Mondraker Crafty e-bike with a ZEB Base Rush RC, and thinking of upgrading the damper with either a Charger 3.1 or this Lift V2 you reviewed. Mainly looking for a more composed ride and maintaining a certain dynamic ride height, especially on the steeps. And from this review I understand that it does just that. I had for the last 5 seasons a 180mm Lyrik Ultimate with Charger 2.1, ran it tokenless with a lot of air pressure, and settled on a pretty decent setup to avoid dives...

The Lift damper only came out last year, and the V2 update just this spring, so it's only very recently been in our own forks. But, in prior years, our Ribbon forks won "Suspension Product of the Year" on PB and received very positive reviews from WideOpen Mag, Singletrack, and elsewhere – including a great user review here. So, in my eyes they're hardly "meh," but people are entitled to their own opinions. Hope we get to change yours in the future. 👍

Easily mistaken for the real thing.

allied bike that was posted about a few pages back. This was from ed masters most recent vid.

Ah sorry, I was getting carried away talking about product instead of teams...however none of you are guessing the pro riders foot in my picture? Man I thought that was what team rumours was all about! I thought someone would have blown it up and analysed the lacing pattern to identify who is going to be spearheading the Nukeproof team in 2026!

enough product talk in team rumors.

Elliot may well be on his way to shoot images with Sven Martin this weekend....on a Nukeproof...

The Vital MTB forum Law strikes again 😂. - "given sufficient time all threads descend into Tech Talk"

Great to hear! The new back end is actually being tested this week by new team riders in a secret location...This picture was taken last week at the Belgian Cycling Factory, this is Dale McMullen (Nukeproof Lead Engineer) and Steve Jamison (Nukeproof Product Manager) discussing the new back end with a new rider (you can just see his foot)!

The parts and accessories are getting an overhaul, we'll have some new stuff to show next year, probably less options than before as it was a pretty big range. What do you guys want to see Nukeproof make? Pedals, bars etc are a no brainer and the wheels are well regarded but we're open to suggestion...VitalMTB poll incoming...

The twins splitting is something I've actually heard before. Surprising but if the offers are there, then why not eh? On another note, here are some photos of a few of the "park" features on the Korea track. Frank Pardal says he'll be doing a track preview Wednesday!

I'm 99% sure I've seen somewhere (I can't remember where, might have been somewhere on the other site) that if a brand/team/whatever goes bankrupt then the points essentially disappear, they're linked to the 'paying agent' I think was the terminology used in whatever it was that I read - so no, as the paying agent for YT Mob has essentially changed, those points are gone, kaput. take everything above with a pinch (fuck loads) of salt, it might have been a comment that someone posted on an article about teams/points etc. on the other site so may or may not...

I'm so happy to see NP back, one of your bikes inspired me to get into riding! I really want to see what's cooking with that rear end on the prototype Dissent too 🤔

Awesome to see Nukeproof rising from the ashes! Onya mate! Best of luck for 2026 and beyond.

Hi all, I'm the 'Gosling' being referenced in the Bikeradar article. I had meetings in Les gets with five teams, YT being one and I'll start by saying that Gunnar Franke (Team Manager) is one of the best guys in the pits running a great team with awesome riders and staff. However we (Nukeproof) don't have the budget to go from 'no team' to one of the best, and highest budget teams in the pits when today we are not even selling any bikes. I also feel that we are not the type of brand that wants or needs one...