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Can you make aftermarket cable routing too?

Quite the AI stuffed into this little whip.

possibly the most technological innovation that's not a rumor ever? solar AI ebikes are here for $1899. create memes on the top-tube mounted display? https://phosgo.com/pages/reserve-product

With many brands moving away from their well-known suspension platform on the short travel bikes in place of flex stay designs, it was a relatively safe assumption these days.

Every time I hear sixfinity

I'm a moron. I'm so used to short travel bikes being Flex stay, I completely forgot that the CBF is a completely different suspension design that doesn't/can't use a flex stay.

This would make perfect sense and follows current industry trends. You probably don't need a 120, 140 and 160 travel bike anymore, so have an 'MT' and an 'LT' both of which, like the ebikes, can run MX or full 29. You then have four bikes from two moulds potentially. Yeti also don't really have a history of rolling names over so expect that whatever the new bikes are they wont be SB160's/165's, SB140's etc.. Also helps retain a bit of value in any remaining inventory.

Heard someone talking about two new models with sixfinity (naming scheme like the E-ones without E) supposedly releasing june/july. Also Speci Enduro alledgedly 2027.

The amount of brand new Gen 2 optics still available online is wild given they stopped making them a good 2 years ago. I wonder if that made the 3 a harder sale, can't say I've seen many either

If the new Enduro is never going to see the light of day, they should offer a link that’s ~160mm. The Cascade link is great but in 29er I’d still like more travel.

The local brand manager showed us some release schedule along with some model data here at the product launch, earlier this year. Fluid will be the budget Al model line, Optic will return to be the higher tier one, with a slightly higher main pivot (Fluids are optimized for a 30t chainring, Gen 4 Optics will be for a 32t IIRC), but no idler. As someone else said, it'll be a return to the Gen 2 ways. I run my Fluid the way most Norco employees do, with a 210x55 shock (~143mm of rear travel) and a 150mm fork. You...

Stumpy 15 aftermarket rear suspension shootout coming soon? Cascade vs MKlinkage..

That would be interesting and cool. I’m assuming if that’s true, they think they can gain some sort of benefit/feel required by having a high kickback design, and mitigate the kickback with the ochain. I really want to live in a world where I have a hard time deciding between a sight and a process. Currently neither of them float my boat.

Heard a while ago that the Optic is going to go back to a more traditional non-idler design. I also heard they were coming with O-chains… 🤔

Me: Can we stop and get a 6-bar suspension from Yeti? Mom: We've got 6-bar suspension at home: For older Amflows, but I suppose the new ones might be supported as well: https://www.mklinkage.net/

Those 6 bar yeti bikes had reviewers gushing. I’ve had absolutely zero desire to try a switch infinity bike. If they follow through with 6bar non e-bikes I’ll be really trying to give them a shot.

Yeah, that's a much more succint way to put it! It's the 'Concorde Theory', we've kind of gone backwards from supersonic flight because we realised there was another way to solve a transatlantic day trip, the internet.

Carcinization continues...

I had assumed this would be 'one bike' now. As with the LTE & MTE, the Sixfinity platform allows you to run either full 29 or MX set up via a flip chip. I can't see that in the current climate it makes any sense to manufacture two platforms. I currently own an SB120 and an SB160 and wonder whether they will become the pinnacle of engineering when it comes to development and complexity of the SI system. It seems like the industry is defaulting to a four/five bar approach by default now. Santa Cruz are obviously another majot example...

My neighbor, a Santa Cruz rep for the southeast, told me the SC marketing guy lives in Bellingham.