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New Frameworks proto? Could only find it in this story (didn't screenshot all the slides): https://www.instagram.com/stories/prosisemetalworks/3378705691127222278/

Full race results found here - https://prod.chronorace.be/angular/results.html#/uci/event/20240525_uso… top 15 pro men and all pro women below

teamrobot set a record for forum thumbs up, so here's a preview of what's to come (unlisted, only for the special people in this forum topic) regarding taking out pawls and testing ochain.

This probably deserves its own thread (Spomer, feel free to delete this and make one with this post), but enduro style racing has two different points of demand, racers and spectators. Sometimes these two "customers" or "users" will want the same thing, sometimes they will not, but ultimately I'd argue they are two very different points of consumption. This thread is muddling the two together, which makes it hard to debate. Making enduro interesting to me as a racer means I'm going to write a lot about what I want to see at the regional/national level. I'm not racing EDR/EWS...

electronic suspension discussion topic created here - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/electronic-suspension-discussion (you're all welcome to start these yourselves. if they're good topics, i'll homepage them). #gizmos

Schwalbe bingo? I'd bet Albert Grindstein...

I think it's a workaround for the relatively high levels of anti-squat on the new model. I was surprised to read the press release and how high the AS is on the new bike, but they also open their copy by talking about how their goal wasn't to make the fastest race bike, but something more versatile. I thought that was odd, but maybe YT made a conscious choice to subordinate their team riders desires for a more pedal-able, "poppy" bike for general population bike park use. YT riders have been using Ochain for a long time, and this idler...

I heard rumors that Walmart is buying Specialized and part of Trek? Anyone else hear this?

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2024/04/30/enve-gm-says-b… The new env owner apparently is a newly minted/self made billionare from the company he founded who lives 20 minutes away, owns two of their bikes and whose son had a summer job building wheels there. Honestly sounds like the best buyer they could hope for. It also seems like its not a crazy time to be investing in US manufacturing.

Helmets you say....

I downvoted you to keep the 69 upvotes intact.

That one time a Float X got wasted and hooked up with a Topaz.

PIT BITS video FROM FT BILL! vali's new YT TUES (didn't look like FA was on boxxer). craziest thing in it - martin maes running an orbea wild ebike without motor or battery! (sorry for yelling and !!!!...just stoked. vital fantasy should be up an rolling in an hour or two as well. rider list just came in)