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In honor of the 1000th page, we should vote on the best meme of 2025: 👍🏻 for “Crab” 👎🏻 for “6-7” edit: Carcinization is the antithesis of innovation. Maybe we should keep crab talk on the crab talk forum and keep this thread focused on MTB tech rumors and/or innovation.

I can actually provide some feedback here to the maven base vs all other flavors of maven conversation... unfortunately, @TEAMROBOT took most of the words right out of my mouth. I have 3 sets of maven brakes on my bikes, Experts, Bronze and Base. I am running 200mm HS2 rotors and metallic pads on all of the setups. I recently bought the maven base to put on my trail bike as I was having a hard time running mavens on 2 of my bikes, and then TRP DHR Evos on my trail bike. The modulation point (harder to feel the...

The hard part not noticing the difference between different levels of Maven is that SRAM’s build quality and consistency is so bad it’s difficult to know what you’re actually comparing.

I have a DH bike with the top tube mount, and I wanted just a small multi tool for the occasional lever adjustment etc, but not the whole pack of pump, tubes etc. So I’ve designed this little 3d printed part, and it came out great, it’s rock solid and doesn’t rattle. Uses the original OneUp strap. If anyone is interested I can upload it somewhere

People lose jobs, investors taking a bath, people ordering bikes that never arrive, riders without a team etc the audacity to call people keyboard warriors is wild lmao. YT literally FUCKED OVER countless people but sure, call us keyboard warriors.

You gotta pay to produce the best marketing content they have? That seems a bit backwards.

If these suck I'm blaming you

Thank you everyone for the solidarity. Update for today. Attempt number I don’t know what anymore I’ve lost count. The friction of rubber on gorilla tape is like it has glued itself the the bead of the Tyre and it takes me over an hour just to get the bead of the Tyre to move away from edge of the rim and drop into the rim bed. I’m so sweaty I look like I’ve just got out of a pool and my thumbs and forearms are no longer useable body parts. I work in concrete construction everyday and this is...

OMG this took me too my emotionally hijacked self. I've been with my wife for over 20 years at this point (I swear I'm not that old, we just met young) and I've thrown a full blown temper tantrum meltdown 3-4 times in that time period. The biggest one was a similar story getting ready for a CES event at mammoth and trying to get the car loaded to head up there after a long day at work. I fought a tire and insert for 2 hours, also putting a hole in the tape, taking it all apart and starting...

2 weeks ago I finally got around to having time to set up the new crankbrothers synthesis wheelset from vital fantasy (still so stoked thank you vital and crankbrothers). Pulled the tires and tannus tubeless off my oem set (which I can mount by hand without Tyre levers). Try to install them on the new set. 29r front goes on easy by hand. 27.5 rear is unbelievably tight to get the last little bit and needs levers to get on. Won’t hold air longer than 20min. Spray it with soapy water and it blows bubbles around the valve stem and...

ENOUGH BK-LIFE-CHOICES TALK IN HERE.

Well, I haven't heard this one before. 🙄

Thank you @ARonBurgundy Maxxis issued a replacement due to my tire being defective. Looking forward to riding a whole lot more on it!

Just sent you a DM. It shouldn't be wearing that fast.

From the horses mouth (aka one of the Shimano category leads at the XTR launch in Tucson, I think it was Nick), “there will always be a place for cable XT drivetrains.” So I think you’re good for the foreseeable future.

You can usually get Wildhorn Radke's on Amazon for like 40 bucks. They all come with a clear lens and a tinted lens.

I've got a couple pairs of Aliexpress glasses. They even have a 100% logo on them although the pictures on the listing don't show it. They're 1:1 knockoffs of real 100% glasses, and come with multiple tinted lenses, including photochromic and clear. Unfortunately I can't find the exact one again, but for less than $10 I just buy a few pairs and don't care whatsoever if they get scratched or broken. I've had them last a couple years each anyway.