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It all comes down to policy. Removing the gold standard isn’t an issue in itself. An independent fed is a good thing. Simply there has been a total failure in leadership since the 90s on both sides of the aisle. When Clinton left office we were on a path to completely eliminate our national debt by the late 2000s. Since then we have continually increased our costs (some good, some bad) while cutting taxes across the board. But the shift (or realistically return) of the government supporting business over normal folk started much earlier. When Eisenhower was president taxes on...

Can’t wait for sram to offer subscription services for modulation.

Yeah, wireless brakes are gonna be a no for me, dawg

Your left nut lives to fight another day.

Guys, don't worry, Alan Greenspan told me that markets always work things out and they arrive at optimal output, consumption, and employment on their own. We live in the best of all possible worlds!

Hello fellow Tech Rumours refugees

This thread is shorter than the stays on my Canfield.

MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - 2026 Longer and slacker is outdated already.

only thing 2026 seems like it will be good for is... This thread. EDIT: so i saw a conversation pop up on reddit, and I thought it was pretty compelling although could be waved away by obvious timing buuut I'm seeing a lot of sold out everywhere I look, even a bit before black friday. And DEF now after black friday. So the question is... Are we on the 'other side' of the inventory dump? In regards to brands setting up these orders at least a year in advance if not more. And like brands still selling through the same...

Geelong person here, since have relocated to Whistler 12 years ago so I’m out of the loop on whats new. You yangs is your closest spot, fun for what it is but mostly xc, some enduro stuff that we used to race dh back in the day. Mount Buller, 4-5hr away, is reopening its chairlift for the first time in years this summer I’ve heard, really fun trails to pedal in the area too. Bright has a cool scene with Mystic bike park, it’s also towards the mt buller way. There’s a few places in that zone you could link...

I guess I will share the first screenshot and get the ball rolling. Get my notifications started too. USD, carbon fork, gearbox, and more! The future is now hopefully we will see more of it soon!

its worth a trip to Bright and the Victorian High Country, heaps of amazing trails. Theres Bright, Falls Creek, Omeo and all have everything from greens to double blacks. Flow to Tech. Other than tasmania, its the best riding in Australia.

Well to credit you all, this thread was Pinkbikes greatest research resource lol

I'm the wrong person to answer this as I've never been to Geelong so I'd just be parroting information from Trailforks, however gravel is pretty popular in Victoria and Geelong is basically at one end of the Great Ocean Road, which is a very popular road cycling route, if that kind of thing tickles your fancy. Edit: How could I forget the High Country?! What little of that I've ridden (Bright and Falls Creek) was very good gravity riding. Some of Falls Creek's trails run through old growth mountain ash forests which are very scenic.

brace yourself... at the end of the year, we're going to lock this thread. while it's been amazing (thank you all!) and fun that we hit 1000 pages and over 7.5m views, this thread is a logistical and technical resource hog. it's also not easy to access older information. while there are a lot of upsides to the ease and convenience of posting to this thread, the downsides are outweighing the ups with it being so massive. please start a NEW thread to the hub for anything that has potential for legitimate discussion. good posts will be homepaged and the...