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dantecusolito Liked a reply to forum topic 2027 Team Rumors
9/1/2026 5:10am
I agree with your assertion, but there is something important to add too. Economics drives culture, and vice versa. There is a not insignificant portion of the population in the US that can't take risks, both physical and economic. A bad accident could put a family in generational medical debt, and you can't take half a year off to go race bikes, because then you won't have health insurance. This leads to a situation where young people that don't have significant financial backing from their parents cannot participate in bike racing. IIRC the Mallen brothers are an exception to this...
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DontWorryImAPilot Liked a reply to forum topic 2027 Team Rumors
9/1/2026 5:04am
Stop using AI for frivolous shit.
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Eae903 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Race Talk
8/31/2026 5:43am
What about the venue in Maine that hosted an EWS some years ago?
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Johnboy Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
8/25/2026 6:13am
So fkn lame.
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Bobsmothersbrother Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
8/23/2026 6:33am
Quite the contrast to sram sponsored enduro riders running flight attendant with it turned off just to please sponsors…
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mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
8/3/2026 8:08am Jeff, Location is literally the only thing that matters for small-scale bike shops these days. To really thrive, many, many, things out of the control of a small business owner need to exist. To thrive, once it took building community in your store with group rides, racing, etc. Car-centric culture and social media driven concepts like strava have decimated the...
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8/3/2026 5:06am Jeff, Yes, I know multiple shops that opened new accounts with new brands to try to get themselves some Avinox stock while the hype was boiling… Say someone wanted to open up a Pivot account(they had a couple Avinox bikes that were briefly in stock a month or so ago)…. that intial buy-in is a lot of cash. So say...
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
8/2/2026 4:35am Anecdotally, I have noticed multiple shops this summer that are down on stock of things like helmets, stems, pedals, gloves etc. because they frantically tied up their free cash pre-ordering Avinox equipped bikes... that still aren’t on the floor… in that brief period before all the Eeb-talk went Gobao and E-cvt shaped. This is all pretty much exactly what Richard...
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7/23/2026 5:13am Literally every bike racer and coach I know use TrainingPeaks…. It’s pretty much the only SAAS option for professional coaches to interface with their clients.
mickey Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
7/21/2026 9:28am The USAC XC “singlespeed” national championships were all just won on axs-with-the-batteries-removed last week. I announce a bunch of xc races on the east coast…it’s been a few years that the top single speed racer has been on anything except a full-suspension bike with an unplugged battery. An interesting note about most of the blinglespeed slope-bike tensioners… they don’t work...
mickey Added a reply to 2026 Race Talk
7/15/2026 6:11am Well, When Conroy’s dad helped him buy Yeti 20+ years ago, Yeti sorta became Yeti again… The late Scott/early Volant years were the only time I can recall Yeti not being as invested in bike racing as they were in Agoura Hills or Durango, but the entire mtb racing world collapsed in on itself at the turn of the millennium...
hamncheez2003 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
7/14/2026 8:41am
Quick correction- Hammerschimdt had an overdrive, opposite of the hub thing. Pedaling in low, it was just a 22 or 24 tooth chainring. Going up gave you a 1.6 overdrive, and that's when you felt the gears meshing. Climbing gears were just as efficient as a single ring, except for the extra weight.
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mickey Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
7/14/2026 5:16am They are also talking about Classified planetary gear hubs… a soon to be dead like Hammercshmidt technology. An external deraileur based drivetrain will always be lighter and more efficient than the losses you get in planetary gears. From a bicycle dynamics perspective, adding a massive amount of unsprung mass to your rear wheel is horrible. I had a Classified hub...
lickmycrinkle Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
7/14/2026 4:56am
The last 2 pages have discussed nothing newer than Hammerschmidt. Please take it to another thread.
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hamncheez2003 Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
7/13/2026 8:04pm
Open bath dampers, short wheelbases, baggy clothes, things were better in the past
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mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
7/8/2026 6:50am I have a solid half dozen pair of Nike road and xc shoes squirreled away from the 1998-2005ish period. The Cairns mtb shoe was half designed for Nico Vouilloz and half designed for the ringleader of the largest sporting fraud case ever prosecuted by the US department of Justice. They adress a large format spd mighty dang well and had...
AgrAde Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
7/1/2026 6:01am
Shut the fuck up about drivetrain efficiency. Holy shit. Go find a different thread.
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collinmcballin Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Team Rumors
6/25/2026 6:56am
i block influencers 
can't take it
can't take it
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mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/22/2026 6:49am Funn is fully vertically integrated(like Fratelli/aka Spank), they even own the brothel they entertain product managers at! Being an actual manufacturer gives a brand like Funn a lot more margin to work with.
Simcik Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Race Talk
6/12/2026 7:52am
What they should do instead of another trophy is MONEY, give them MONEY!!! Riders and teams
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