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Ethics and Dave Weagle literally cannot be in the same sentence. Impossible.

Every santa cruz VPP bike is already 4 bar

This is going to grind some gears... taken from Lewis IG Story.

Thicker rotors only reduce lever travel (which comes from less of a gap between pads and rotor) till the pads are worn a bit and the caliper seals let the pistons slip out a bit to make up for some of the wear. Then, the lever throw is only depending on the seal roll back of the caliper piston seals. The same effect can be achieved by pumping the brakes and by that advancing the pistons slightly before you insert a thinner rotor.

I never care about top loading or whatever Everytime I change pads is a chance of give the brakes a clean, possibly a bleed, and then installing the pads again When I had the mt7 I was using the bridged pads from Trickstuff, done plenty of park days where I finished the and it took 5 min in the parking lot to get everything cleaned, replaced and aligned I would t chuck pads in without taking the wheel out or caliper out

Somehow emtbs are going in a direction a lot of us figured they’d go from the start. It is more and more about the motor and the battery and less and less about the „bike“ part. They might be fun, they might be fast. But to me it seems more and more like two different sports. With those new torque numbers, it seems rather dubious (ridiculous) to talk of assistance. Maybe the rider assisting the motor, but not the other way around. Not even world class sprinters come close to outputting what a full power Avinox or Bosch is doing...

This is not radial. "Low Bias" maybe, radial tires have ply oriented perpendicular to the rolling direction, and thats it. No one in this modern "radial" tire fad has made a radial tire yet. All just low bias.

I think history has proven to never buy a first gen e13 anything

specialized radials are live - https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/specialized-goes-radial-new…

Ahh yes, the seal friction of air with the weight of coil. Didn’t cane creek already do this?

a race to the bottom imo.

When you don't have the bridge it's not only the steering torsional stiffness that is important. You also have to balance the forces left and right. The spring only acts in one way while the damper always oposes movement. The way the axle gives torsional stiffness also impacts how well both legs travel up and down at the same time.

They only blew that embargo by two whole days, nice going road.cc crew... 🤔

TR11 is official - https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/race-bike-people-new-transi…