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They do. Scott makes terrible bikes. They're a nightmare to work on, fail at multiple points and the finishing touches are utter garbage.

I still don't understand how those hidden shocks don't overheat and get weird on longer descents.

That's still a flex stay mate. Single pivot with a rocker link.

IMO the proportions look a little wonky with the shock hidden. Like the front and rear triangles were taken from different bikes. The overly long stem isn’t helping either. Some designs don’t photograph well, so maybe it looks better in person.

Seriously, the bikes are not bad, but the headset shit needs to die

has scott finally learnt, you can hide the shock etc but putting cables through the headset kills sales.... I wouldve owned the genius/ransom but they had to put a plastic ring with headset routing... yeah no, no plastic in headsets thanks.

I shudder to think what that nicolai weighs, my XL Range VLT is 30kg and it's a huuuuuge bitch. I have to put an event in my calendar to eat pasta and pre workout if I want to try a manual or bunnyhop on the weekend.

Just found these absolute gems! Why can’t someone make a proper flat shoe again. It’s insane how much better these dinosaurs are then my current ride concept

Man I hope that the new enduro sells super well, I couldn't care less about specialized but if a non ebike in that travel range sells well it should wake the industry up that there is actually demand for those bikes.

Yes, all rim production is still in Kamloops.

That's MUCH better...

The way I remember 29ers arriving, I'm pretty sure the decision was made by the industry to commit before riders really had the chance to vote with their wallets.... They had been around for a while on the fringe, but once more mainstream brands started getting in to it, the switch happened pretty quick and you can't just spin up a new bike model in a few months so they had to have committed years before that..... So if we start seeing the big suspension brands committing to 32" products.......

I said " we haven't seen a long travel single crown 32" fork yet," and I can see how that might have been unclear. What I meant to communicate was "Gee, that black RSU fork sure doesn't look like a Fox 32 or Neko's crazy loctite Fox 40, which are the only 32" Fox forks we've seen so far. I wonder what RSU fork that is. It sure looks like a Fox, and it could even be a dedicated long travel single crown 32" fork from Fox, which would be newsworthy because 32" bikes and products from the big brands...

Yeah theres a difference in handling between a 30lb bike and a 50lb bike but the Vala vs Vala Lite is like, a 1.5lb difference lmao Most of that weight savings just comes from a lighter fork, tires, and wallet due to the XX drivetrain spec. They’ve simultaneously made the bike more expensive and less useable.

I don’t understand the point of the gram counting e-bike specs. Like, you have a motor and all you’re doing is compromising the bike’s capability just to save a little weight.

I think it’s a far more reasonable take now than when 29s were emerging. Bikes are already dimensionally huge and many riders still feel that while 29s may be more capable, even they’re already less fun (in the rear) for descending, hence the increasing popularity/availability of mullets. Plus, there are also considerations around fairness due to certain athletes being too small to ride them. I’m in favour of testing things and maybe going too far with wheel sizes, and believe that athletes who may be too small for big wheels likely enjoy certain other advantages like improved w/kg, etc. but...

I'm honestly so done with the bike industry changing standards for literally no good reason other than having new stuff to sell. No one asked for 32" - nobody is asking for 30,5". At this point, all of this looks like a marketing exercise to make our current bikes seem inadequate and to FOMO-pressure us into buying more stuff we don't need.

Kona seems kinda fucked imo. I don’t see what they can do to bounce back (I really hope they do). The current bikes are solid but need some small geo updates. Do they copy and paste, and make the 153 and 134 a basic four bar, slightly slack then out, a little more stack, longer CS, and slightly more progression? Not hard and a proven formula, but it’s getting into bland territory. Either way Horst-ing them will make them objectively better. The other hot non e-bike seller is a downcountry bike, but at this point is the market kind of...