All

That would be the 2025 Instinct SL according to another forum, is someone able to confirm if that's really the case ? Looks like it's just a smaller battery & retuned motor in the existing full power Instinct frame, nothing too exciting.

Vojo magazine posted a few new things here and there, regarding last Roc d'Azur: Including a few Polygon """protos""" : And more interesting, the Beringer ebike (we already knew about their mtb brakes, wasn't aware of the frame development) which is made from cast aluminium. As an absolutely-not-engineer guy I like seeing these kind of attempts on frame material, but some may have another perspective I guess... (regardless of kinematics / geo)

They'd better be able to pack good value into the builds, they paid for 4/5ths of the tooling and all the R&D years ago. This bike has been available since Fall 2019, yes, it remains excellent, no, consumers should not be paying a premium for it. Edit: the fact that the value of the Comp is actually pretty good is indeed surprising.

Somewhere in the last 20 years readers here lost track of the sport's trajectory. We are firmly in upper-middle class sporting territory. Being a young sport ( Performance MTB ) many of us came from various socioeconomic backgrounds to make it happen in the 90s but now that landscape is quite different. I would argue we almost surpassed skiing as the well-to-do hobby for people with money to spend.

'Lots of smart people out there' is a great point. Bikes are generally great these days but excel in slightly different use cases, or feel slightly different but the knowledge base seems to have exploded over the past few years and engineers are making the most out of the available platforms. Since bikes are getting so good at what they're designed for, I think demos/testing to develop and understand your subjective preference is becoming more relevant. I've recently rented/demoed a good chunk of modern trail and enduro bikes and it was sick to see what I got along with or...

I prefer the Crab Link. It’s the future obviously. DW spins up designs all the time, and to me they all come across as a good marketing campaign to sell more design. Everything DW is always “better”, and DW is dogmatic that every new product is better than the Crab Link (Horst). Yawn. I like to believe that we’ve finally hit an era in biking where a good design isn’t limited to the patent you hold or the design you licensed. Lots of smart people out there.

Exactly, it's pretty cringey that a bunch of grown-ass men are dragging this kid on the internet just because an anonymous rumor says his parents are kicking in some cash to give him a chance to chase his dream. The kid obviously has some talent and happens to have parents with higher than average means. How is this different than sending your kid to an elite ski academy? Reece on Gamux is exciting - gonna get that $100k!

Anyone else notice the bike Semenuk rode in rampage wasn’t just a gen 5 slash? Looks nice IMO

BOS is apparently poised to make a major push back into the MTB market, they have refreshed their entire range of products - it all drops on November 11 but here's the info already: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/bos-suspension-launches-bos….

I kick off the superboost comments, it can indeed without a doubt, F off.

E13 was created by Evil bikes? Dafaq?!?!?! O_o

According to Dave Weagle they changed the name because Santa Cruz couldn’t spec them on their team bikes with the EVIL logo. Have a listen to Nigel Page’s “Stay on Your Bike” podcast with him. It’s a good listen

you 2 knucklheads, please continue in DM! thx

Reece Wilson creating his own team apparently being gamux bikes and getting heaps of funding from somewhere out of industry Seems loris and Benoit to commencal with a huge commencal team being formed with all muc off riders too Ellie Hulsebosch has signed with syndicate for next year, Felix Griffiths also signed Stevens mcnabb to trek Anna Newkirk to frameworks Also unior sinter apparently loosing trek and riders just riding their own bikes

Can finally talk about it publicly Asa on Red Bull 🙌🏽

Kate re-upped w/ Scott through '27 (but agree she might benefit from a change although she did change coaches fairly recently).

New Graphic Technology (NGT)

Bold New Graphics