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Okay detectives. Who can get a positive ID on the lip pillows Remi is packing?

Vital forum detective level just hit a new high...

Unfortunately I'm an idiot, so I'll answer your question even if it is sarcastic. I found a known value that's easy to measure, the rear brake rotor. I set it to 203mm (as mentioned in a bike check from my memory) 16.2cm = 6.377 inch, rounded up however the app used rounds things and also not a perfect angle. Closest match for phone size would be a Iphone 16/17 pro max at 16.3 cm or a google pixel 9/10 at 6.3 inches. I'm going to go with the iphone 16/17 pro max. I should touch grass. I'm also either going...

200mm post mount makes sense because then you can accommodate 200mm or 203 rotors with just a couple of washers.

screengrab of gracey's bike from pro downhill in NC today

I remember 185mm rotors 🤣

A few snipes of tech rumors that I am going to steal from a few pinkbike's posts from today. I want to be respectful of their efforts/journalism, so I am providing a link to not be a douche, sorry @sspomer if that's not cool. Fox Live Valve neo x2, on seb's firebird from the 38 release article. This seems like a related, but different product to the neo adjacent version that was seen on the rallon rs release. This seems a lot more production ready and less of the bespoke, integrated system version that Orbea was leveraging. It makes me...

So the solution to the Sea Otter release tsunami is to release things earlier... but not talk about certain bits? The Mondraker has motor, fork and rims blurred out 🤣

Well, that settles it. Nobody here has to talk about a Mondraker bike, either.

Devinci just dropped their Canadian-made alloy Spartan. https://www.devinci.com/en/stories/product-launch/2026-spartan/ Top spec is priced at a very reasonable $5,999, it also comes with the newly updated 2027 Fox 38

Rocking the ol' Gwin-approved NOchain ™.

Very good look for higher pivot frameworks from vital g-out pics. can see at neko's bike the main pivot way above the chainring, while on gwin's bike its lower and behind chainring/guard. also noticed gwin had no chain but running ochain, maybe wanting to repeat leogang? that must feel amazing!!

Just a few questions- Does it currently have a shock and is there something about it you are looking to improve? Have you checked if all those options physically clear the frame? It's not always a given and can narrow your choices down a lot. Every picture I could find had the stock super deluxe Is there a service centre or shop close by that give you better support for certain brands? And do you have a budget? I'm a Push dealer so will obviously recommend the VT/x and SV8 if they fit. Pricing on the SV8 is very competitive...

Full podcast episode with Rob coming in a couple of weeks!

Dealer just sent this out

notice in the race replay from TN national that dylan maples' pivot dropouts look custom/different (sorry, wish i had a better angle). edit - found this

"Commercially Viable" means you can bring an item to market expecting to profit. DH bikes are an incredibly small share of the bike market which can make it tough to be commercially viable. So much so that many bike companies see DH racing primarily as a marketing activity. For instance I don't think there were ever production versions of the Yeti rail bike, Hyper's freeride bike, the Honda bike, or Herbold's suspension Miyata. I meant my comment to relate to prototypes generally, not specifically to the Devinci you mentioned.

The V+R Racing rider lineup for 2026... TL;DR It's Raina Logar, Zanna Logar and Aletha Ostgaard! Most folks on this forum are familiar with V+R, but briefly for those who aren't, Virginia and Ryan (V+R) are two DH superfans living in the Pacific Northwest. 2026 marks our seventh season sponsoring and supporting downhill racers and our fourth season at the World Cup level. Crazy! For '26 we've re-signed Aletha Ostgaard for her fourth season with V+R Racing! Ally races for Canyon Collective. Zanna Logar has also re-signed for a second season with V+R. Zanna races for Frameworks. So cool! Maybe...

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Kavenz also has standard and leverage+ rockers, though I think there will just be one rocker for the V8 and different lower shock mount points to change leverage.