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I see the same thing in South Orange County, and I think we (myself included) may be overestimating the overlap between VitalMTB readers/contributors and the typical Specialized customer these days.

Man I've got some terrible news for you about mountain bikers and the word "loam:"

This feels like the thin edge of the subscription wedge to me... Don't have an S-Works but want that extra 40w? Pay up!

Pretty sure it's a joke, mocking the NST tour that happened down there for holding an event, and delaying results and media coverage.

Just saw this from Jakob Jewett https://www.instagram.com/jakobjewett/p/DUoJT1GAQop/?hl=en I saw this guy win 1199 at Whistler a couple years back beating out both Dak and Luca Shaw but didn't see much of him last season, I guess this explains why. When this guy is on he's up there with the best. Some of the best style out there as well. I hope he can come back from this.

Great question. I don't know yet. I'm going to ride the fork when it gets back without any additional info, and then follow up with Push to get the details. Whenever possible, I try to know less during a product test so I can hopefully avoid confirmation bias.

18.34% of this is accurate.

Just a thought on bike weights. For ever, everybody has been going for the lightest weight bikes possible. And with the narrow wide chainring, chain guides have pretty much disappeared. But now riders are sticking lead weights to their bottom brackets. What if the good old MRP style chain guide came back, but made out of plate steel instead of alloy?

Can we put the wrap back on?

VALI! looks so fast, strong and fit...also nice to see her back in a D4 and TLD kit-it's where she spent most of her helmet and kit years and just looks right on her. As long as she keeps reminding herself that this is just bikes, fun, she will be hard to beat in an overall title chase.

2026 Tr11 framesets source: reddit

This. He talks about it at the very end of his Hardline day one vid @37:10 ish:

Freeeeeeeride eeeeeeebike.

No problem, I didn't take your message as aggressive. I have to say I was expecting more "sporting" questions, like who is DragonSpeed, why a sportscars racing team is coming to DH, what are our goals etc. Regarding Thibaut, we discussed about this with him and the partners. You can imagine I am not the only one to be convinced and to decide. We chose the riders together, and the partners are happy with all of our 4 riders, including Thibaut. We had no potential sponsor that said "no" because he is on. Thibaut brings performance, I think we all...

I heard it's just gonna be Brage's trolldom line