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you know what you americans should do? stop thinking that you are the center of the world.

Keep in mind a manufacturer can’t really void a warranty. They can disclaim damage due to particular things. A warranty covers a lot of stuff. If your BB starts falling out that’s not related to fork and should still be covered. But if anything starts happening to the head tube you may be out of luck. Personally I’m a fan of dual crowns because it’s really the best solution to CSU creak. Have run them on bikes that weren’t really supposed to have one and would do it again. Especially if there was a slightly lighter option. Under normal circumstances...

That's all good and well but lets face some facts here - Cube bikes are junk (I worked closely with the brand at a distribution level), the kinematics were average at best and the frame failure rate we saw was out of control, more than 50% of carbon bikes sold came back with cracked frames and they were horrendously slow with turnaround time on replacement frames, always looking for excuses. Saracen is a walmart/whatever brand so no matter the caliber of the rider you'll never get results riding a piece of crap down the hill. Personality or not, Danny Hart...

Continuing the chat of Danny Hart, I'm also in the camp where he doesn't really come across as much of a "personality" to me, but also not someone who's had particularly great results over the past year. I have a feeling some companies are also just taking a harder look at which riders are really driving sales. I know Danny's history, but how many riders realistically are going to be watching him and wanting to copy his setup or style? Looking at EDR, it's the same if you look at what used to be the Canyon team. I imagine a...

I think it's doing Meg White a disservice to call her just an "influencer" - she's a legit racer with multiple national level wins. As for sponsoring influencer over athletes - remember, it's a marketing arrangement. The sponsor picks the people to support who will most likely move the needle in terms of sales. If racers don't want to lose marketing investment, they need to get better at being like Neko - a perfect blend of athlete and brand storyteller. The modern athlete in any sport is a brand. Its just that MTB is very, very slow to come to...

Precisely. I think a very, very smart move for Forbidden. She’s got a very strong following on the U.K. Instagram/YouTube bike scene (if you’re into that sort of thing). She posts regularly, engagement is high and she comes across as very friendly and approachable. All great attributes for a brand ambassador and it won’t be costing Forbidden much more than a couple of ‘free’ frames a year. They know exactly what they’re doing.

Agree, and she does race: https://www.rootsandrain.com/rider31877/megan-whyte/results/

YAY, even more SX comparisons! Just what we all come here for, in an MTB forum of all places....

if he grew his hair out we could call him the bike Jesus.

lol, Vital gets more and more Pinkbike-ish. When presenting facts (like in the tire weight discussion) or prior art (here), you get downvoted.

Guy is already lowballing before release lmao

love to have one for my e-bike.

okay, the guy who lives on candy, beer and whiskey drinks. A literal self proclaimed water hater, you didn't know? ..guess I'll be the only one to notice how anemic and unhealthy the pinkbike teams skin tone authentically looks. You know they're boosted to the gills with how far they pushed that pandemic narrative. Get real Kyle Warner told the truth about untested gene altering vaccines. Imagine that

vaccine injury--legit and he was given a gag order from his Outside overlords to not disrupt the pharmaceutical narrative that is "fashionable".

The woke clown posse are always offended at every level of discourse. So going straight to clown reference just cuts out a lot of the back and forth and outs all the clowns. So, kind of surprising. My test email is now up to 92% negative feedback. Which exceeds even PB at its worst. Difference is that management hasn't chimed in and aggressively censored......yet. Have all the normal riders with actual brains bought E-bikes and moved on from MTB's? Pretty much all I see is E-bikes now. Damn, I was trying to remain pure.

Clowns confirmed. LMFAO!!

I tried to give you a thumbs up just now but apparently I already did. My goal is to not have to make Spomer monitor and delete my posts. So....I'm gonna go edit a post real quick. Be right back.

From the negative count "thumb downs" on my post me thinks some of the woke clowns from PB have ended up here. Does not seem promising for VitalMTB if true.

I got banned off and on. But then earlier this year, I got over the whole site and the constant attacks. I actually deleted my account on there several months back. Didn't even know you could do that. Made me so happy. Felt like a normal person finally saving up enough to get out Portland.

My pb account was banned for a year on the last UCI rule change article around trans-women. I used the phrase "men-living-as-women", trying to balance accuracy without being incendiary. I haven't been back.