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Damn Storm, bringing back memories! In the 2003 Mt Snow video at 4:20 flyin' Ryan Sutton smooths out the yard sale section on my Astrix Havoc! What a road trip that was! Ryan, Kain Leonard, Gail Dalhger, and I (The Astrix team) left Colorado in Gail's motorhome and raced Snowshoe, Plattekill, and Mount Snow. RV breakdowns, lots of rain, prototype bikes, and racing, good times!

It’s the rocks to the bottom of my SXg that’s usually my limiting factor LOL

What a time to be alive. Unbound opulence. Kids, make sure you understand the gradient of the trail you are riding that day too so you can make sag adjustments based on likely weight distribution changes due to gradient variances. Spend 1-2 hours on bike setup/prep. Ride ~4-5 laps of 3-5 minutes each (total ride time 12-25 minutes). Spend 2 hours analyzing data, posting strava, posting grams, posting trailforks, posting youtubes, arguing with netbangers. Sit back, soak in all the WINNING. This is TRULY what peak cycling enjoyment looks like.

Hard to take a guy serious that rides Kendas.

This is an example of percent wheel travel as a function of percent shock travel. In this example, all have 160 mm of travel and a perfectly linear (in the mathematical sense ie. in the form mx+b) leverage curve. The green line is 50%, the blue line is 30%, and the orange line is 10%. The largest difference in percentage is at 50% shock travel. This is the point at which the aforementioned leverage curves converge. Running more sag on a more progressive bike can result in the ratio of up travel to down travel from the sag point being...

A lot of good thoughts here, but just to play devil's advocate, have we considered the possibility that he's right and we're all stupid and everyone in the bike industry has collectively been doing it wrong for 30-40 years and he alone can tell us the answer and it requires buying this expensive new product from his webstore? I mean at least consider it, is what I'm saying.

Fair question. Money is definitely one reason why we haven't bought an Intend to test ( or 2772 reasons). In a perfect world, I would love for Vital to buy all of our test products at MSRP, like Consumer Reports used to do (Consumer Reports is now a dead husk of their former self). But buying all our test products would require either a) more revenue from advertisers, or b) moving to a subscription model and charging viewers, which other bike sites have done (Velo, Radavist, etc), or c) more $$$ from advertisers AND charging viewers for a subscription, which...

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It was mentioned by me on Moving the needle Podcast. Despite what others think or have written here there are most definitely visa issues or VISA Waiver issues for nearly every non EU based rider. This includes riders from the UK, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. You are only allowed to be in the Schengen region 90 days out of every 180 days. Switzerland and Poland are both Schengen states and although Andorra isn't you still need a a Schengen Visa or Etias to enter as you can only enter from a Schengen state. (If you are travelling without...

That is the Shimano STEPS eBike only Di2 derailleur, been around for quite a while but not much media on it

Few details about new Fox USD fork