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So glad all those 6'8" UCI XC riders can finally fit on properly sized bikes!

In honor of the 1000th page, we should vote on the best meme of 2025: 👍🏻 for “Crab” 👎🏻 for “6-7” edit: Carcinization is the antithesis of innovation. Maybe we should keep crab talk on the crab talk forum and keep this thread focused on MTB tech rumors and/or innovation.

re: bearings In my 30 years of riding mountain bikes, I've owned 40+ full suspension bikes, and not once did I ever consider bearing replacement ease/difficulty when considering a frame. I know we're a bunch of nerds on here, but do some of you actually consider that when looking at a bike?

Is replacing 8 more bearings when you already have your linkage blown apart really that big of a deal? I don’t ride a crazy amount, but I do ride a good amount, and I do not replace my bearings more than every other year. Most of the time they are still fine. Unless you’re in the top 0.1% of riders I don’t see any reason why you should be replacing bearings more than once a year. So maybe 8 more bearings to change might take another 2 hours if you’re severely bad at using tools. I spend more than 2...

nope.. it's a bike for disproportionate bodies.. or wacky stance/technique... pass..

AI is gay

I think it might be the use of AI. A lot of people hate it, me included.

Rode with Brian ages ago in Whistler. Certified shredder. But since this is tech rumors, via ride companion episode with Gee, sounds like Atherton could be working on an eeb.

If anyone wants to invest a few hundred grand with no guaranteed return, anything is possible.

435 chainstay across the board... Brian Cahal has left the chat

This is something that is very useful to know and I appreciate the companies that make it easy to access. A lot of people want to either upgrade the shock or bring over a high end damper they already own. So this makes it much easier to get that person set up properly if the bike company hasn't already supplied detailed settings and spring rates for that shock

i am slowly being priced out of MTB.

$4k frames in 2025: Are you comfortable being DOA?

And a direct link here too. I really hope DoubleCrownAddict doesn't see it.

Pinkbike posted an article about that floating front brake setup. It mentioned it was seen at Vital first. Maybe the first time they’ve acknowledged that??

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