Agreed, as long as a shop has open machine time and your willing to pay for the expedite fees, you could get this thing machined and anodized in less than a week.

I also think you should keep it a huck machine! If it were me, I'd put a 150mm fork on it and do a mullet set up 27.5F/26R. This sounds like a fun project. I can't wait to see when you post pics of the final build! Good luck!

I'm also a +1 for the trail bike. If you like to pop, manual and play you will hate the enduro bike on the majority of your rides, a super long, slack and squishy enduro bike on average trails is boring. On the other hand, a poppy and agile trail bike ... more »

It's literally in the first sentence of the press release and mentioned again in the section about him...

I don't know if this really counts but Tippie is off of Spank Components.

That definitely looked like Maes...

I think Diag means that no torque goes through the idler in the opposite direction of the ID threads so just the carrier without the nut would suffice. Just like how there is no nut on a single speed hub with a freewheel.