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I was thinking that when I recently tried putting a strap around my buddy's Bronson on the back of my truck. The straps on the tailgate pad weren't long enough to get it to velcro back onto itself around the massive downtube. I immediately thought that it was so they didn't have to make new molds to go SL emtb.

I have to admit, the "companies are making regular bikes look more like e-bikes so the e-bikes look more like regular bikes" conspiracy theorists just got a little more ammunition with the release of the Heckler SL.

It will be drop bar stuff.

The 27,5 Tues has 267x89 and the 29er has 250x75.

I just put a set of 11sp XT linkglide shifter ,derailleur and cassette on my enduro bike. the shifting is unreal. Never felt shifting so precise and crisp (I have only used shimano's XT/XTR).. I tried for science using conventional shimano 11sp cassette, did not work... I knew shifter/derailleur work on a different pull, but the cassette is also part of the magic. anyway, just a heads up in the era of "transmission" ; )

Don't think I've seen it be mentioned before, but a lot of riders sponsored by YT have been running the new Super Deluxe Coil Ultimate on the Tues, even though they're built around a 267x89 shock rather than the metric sizing that all of the newest Rockshox shocks use. I'm assuming its a custom item that Rockshox are producing for YT just because they want sponsored riders to be using their latest and greatest tech rather than the now decade old Vivid (although Johann Potgieter was on one at Worlds), but it got me thinking, are there any other current...

Knolly has been working on a new long-travel enduro bike. Expect some news very soon!

please keep it tech rumors, not over analysing kinematics and discussing it in here, there are separate threads for that. thx!

Single pivots are Hella fun, because they're bikes and they soak up bumps. Do you prefer hardtails?

Evil moving to DW-6 would definitely get me to consider them again. I was a die hard Evil fan for many years, I owned 4 of their frames in a row, then their “improvements” became so incremental that my eye started wondering to other brands. When they switched to Superboost it was the final mail in the coffin. Hopefully they have something new in the works that would get me to consider them again.

Marketing is a hell of a drug.

That’s a BYB Telemetry top cap

It will be under the Heckler name from what I have heard.

Devinci won’t leave the split-pivot, they just started using a high-pivot version of it. Ibis is strictly on dw-link. Now, Evil leaving the delta-suspension and trying something new like a dw6 design would be great! All their bikes look the same and have been single-pivots for quite some time (cause that’s what the delta is - a single pivot design).

DW6 has a pivot on the chainstay. Go check an Atherton

Hurts man, right in the chest. I loved that brand. I steered several of my mates towards them, and they loved how they rode.

Confirmed Guerilla Gravity is shutting down. A friend of mine just got this email from them this week.

That's the SL.

Cant wait to ride it.

For what it's worth, people spotted a few Evil vans testing prototypes at a badass trail near Leavenworth, WA a couple of weeks ago. What the hell would I know, But that doesn't seem like a company that is dissolving.