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TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
7/17/2025 7:54pm
Yeah this has "upcoming financial disaster" written all over it.
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mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
7/17/2025 8:50am Also sounds like something good for Pon to buy someday. As an aside, I wonder how much longer Pon can justify making meat powered Cannondales?
FerrousBueller Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
7/16/2025 1:52pm
Also, brand new YT Mill in Bentonville. I've been there, it's massive and certainly expensive
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ShapeThings Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
7/16/2025 1:51pm
Burn that thing with fire. SciFi Reaganomics cherry-picking anecdotes to suit their mission. Some good rebuttals out there…
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yahmon Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
7/16/2025 6:56am
he’s probably high up in the running for least insightful sports commentator of all time.
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drakefan705 Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
7/16/2025 6:56am
Just popping in here to say that after being somewhat of a ric defender for the past year and a half, last weeks broadcast was the straw that broke me. He isn’t the guy for the job and it’s yet another factor stopping me from paying 40 CANADIAN DOLLARS a month to watch the races.
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SlackBoy Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/11/2025 5:09am
Bring back Alex and Sanjay!!!!!!
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mickey Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/11/2025 5:06am I spent a few hundred hours riding the VST prototypes. Still, to this day, I have yet to ride a bike that goes so damn fast in a straight line. There was so much drama in that era of Sinister, it’s too bad development stopped on that project, two or three more prototypes and I think we would have ended...
mickey Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/10/2025 6:05am Hopefully they learned from the gen6 EX that a carbon drivestay chainstay can’t be 7mm thick in profile just to clear a chainring. I’m on my 3rd chainstay at this point.
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/28/2025 3:45pm Dedacai will draw you 6061 over in Italy if you order about 3000 pounds worth. They don’t have any stock profiles that would work well for your bikes though, so you’d be on the hook for mandrels for each tube. As i’m sure you know, a butting mandrel is spun up on a lathe to precise tolerances, and it’s usually...
airwreck Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/28/2025 7:59am
SAPA was devastating for Turner and Knolly. I've heard the details from both Dave and Noel. Glad they were both able to recover.
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mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/28/2025 6:47am The last draw benches suitable for aluminum bicycle tubing in the United States were bought by Boeing from a facility in CT(in a building built specifically to handle all the aluminum profiles and bar stock for Cannondale)in 2015 and are now being used to make replacement parts for b52 toilets. I worked with the New Haven chamber of commerce and...
mickey Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
6/26/2025 10:27am Speaking of axing the official Jr Categories at World Cups; I grew up racing in the junior category at World Cups in North America. Under the NORBA and Gestev regimes North American world cups always had amateur racing. If you were fast af and had a racing age of 17 or 18 you could enter the big dance, otherwise you...
synBike Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/21/2025 7:07am
This is derailing tech rumours a bit but the chattery feeling is almost certainly due to the effects on braking and not from the impact on the spring rate at the shock. Torsional revolute is the correct model but it's a fairly high rate. With a long lever arm (and a very small angular displacement) like a seat stay this results in low forces at the shock but it transfers big portions of the brake torque from the seatstay to the chainstay. Makes the braking much closer to a single pivot in feel. And before someone else says it this...
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mickey Added a reply to E-MTBs That Are Also E-Motos - What's Going to Happen?
6/11/2025 1:55pm great timing! I spent the morning sampling the same woods moto race track (at an ORV park where i am designing bicycle trails)on a standard, old levo, a surron and a klx 230 and a Beta 300 Xtrainer. My primary observation- motorcycles are motorcycles and ebikes are ebikes. A bike part equipped 6000w bike would probably have not survived some...
SRAM and Shimano engage in price fixing Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/11/2025 4:59am
There wasn't room to include "..., planned obsolescence, and anti-consumer duopolistic practices that treat bike companies less like frame designers and more like component integrators."
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ardor Liked a reply to forum topic Top Choice World Cup Tracks?
6/9/2025 12:08pm
Angel Fire would be sick to see again, and the old track in Nevegal, Italy, would be cool to see again. Bromont, Big Bear, Squaw, Deer Valley! And can we get some of the old Dual tracks back while we're at it? They're so good for spectators, so WBD should be able to see great growth from adding them!
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rgard Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
6/9/2025 11:39am
MTB-adjacent news; the Warner Bros/Discovery Omincorp/financial dumpster fire that currently holds the rights to the UCI World Cup Broadcasts is being unpicked at great speed. Hopefully this makes watching World Cup broadcasts even more of a confusing and expensive endeavour, as seems to be the grand plan going forward.
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mickey Added a reply to Top Choice World Cup Tracks?
6/9/2025 11:33am The 1998 NORBA track is pretty well gladed out now, that’s a lot more relentless, and still has plenty of swooping The mid aughts track was pretty…. uninspiring after you survived yardsale(and if you survived hidden dangers in the high grassess off the summit on Wednesday and Thursday practices…
CamNeelyCantWheelie Liked a reply to forum topic Top Choice World Cup Tracks?
6/9/2025 11:28am
The current crop of riders on a mid 2000's era Mount Snow NORBA track would be a sight to behold.
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