All

The MTBR Ibis forum had someone who spotted the new Ibis Ripmo AF frame in Santa Cruz, one black and one raw alloy. Interested to see what changes they make (if any) compared to the V3 Ripmo carbon.

I've had a few new fox products, including the one released today, in my hands over the last few weeks and while I'm not a fox fan boy, the feel and look of the new 34SL, - Redacted- and - Redacted- are certainly a bump up from the previous gen. It'll be interesting to see how they review. The 34SL is stupid light in your hand.

This explains why Propain may be having issues getting my fork warrantied out as it's still pending SRAM's portal update.

Ooooof, sounds like someone messed up a database migration/upgrade 😝

Bunch of pivot athletes and ambassadors in finale for something. Likely a new firebird launch.

The Sram B2B site has been down for about a week.

Isn’t the main problem with influencers the sheer number of them? YouTube is absolutely saturated with people making biking videos of varying quality. The second issue is that many of them were (just about) able to make a living from it when the the going was good. Now it isn’t, they can’t. Whilst I have some sympathy, it never was a sustainable living, and shouldn’t ever have been treated as such. Now the bike industry has contracted, the market isn’t there and they’ll have to move on and find employment like the rest of us do. The mountain influencer scene...

Can’t wait to see the new gen Evil, hopefully soon

Conti fans rejoice, enduro super soft is here

This may be a good indicator of when as they're all cagey about it.

Not a clear screen shot, but Orbea DH in the wild with a cover. From Tahnee instagram, looks like it’s working well

Different seat height every time I extend the dropper, and having to micro-tune seat height with the lever every time? Hard pass, for me and especially for beginner riders.

I don’t get paid by Norco or anything, but I feel like they have the dropper post sizing pretty dialed. Here’s a screen cap from the specs of a 2025 Sight;

I hear you, but being 6 foot I’ve had to sell every dropper post on all my size large bikes because they’re far too short. I argue, and this isn't to say I don’t understand where you’re coming from, there is a larger subset of the large bike population that could use a longer dropper. There have been some strong opinion pieces on the other site to sell stock bikes with non crap brakes, tires, and longer droppers. Although this wouldn’t be necessary or appropriate for all for everyone, I still support the idea that bikes should be stocked with...

While we're discussing dropper seatpost consumer behaviour rumours, Merida has it figured out. As anybody who's been paying attention to Merida knows, its current FS models have a straight seat tube so that every single frame size comes with the same adjustable post that can be set to drop anywhere between 30 mm and 230 mm. I don't think it's available aftermarket yet, though.

The real question is “why do bike companies spec such short dropper posts on their bikes?” Give the people all the drop that’s possible. Any bike that comes with less than 210mm drop needs to be upgraded. Obviously, if it’s a light weight XC bike, it may not be necessary. But once a bike hits the trail or all mountain category it should come with lots of dropper travel.

Hard agree T-Bot. Sorry, long post. I type a concise thing that - upon a quick proofread - is non-understandable unless you're actually sharing my brain. The attempt to explain sets my fingers out on on a keyboard dance marathon. Still probably incoherent but at least out of my head rather than in. Hardtail Party, MTB Alan, Skills with Phil, Evan's MTB Saga, Matty Active, Remy Metaillier, Syd and Macky, Amanda Hamilton, Pedal Vision, GuyKesTV, McTrail Rider, Singletrack Sampler, etc. are YouTube channels that all speak to different people. Some of those listed I absolutely cannot stand. Some of them...

Y'all do realize the people who were trying to get Taiwanese factories to triple their capacity to support the permanent increase in demand that was going to be created by Covid are the same people who thought paying influencers would have good ROI. Could simply be that, absent any external factors, brands are simply realizing that most of us don't give a sh!t, and the rest of us have wised up to the fact social media is just a collection of disguised commercials.

Yeah Seth is one of the ones who i immediately thought of! Brian Cahal is another who I think has been bringing unique and interesting content to the world. It sucks when certain channels are more interested in gaming the algorithm for clicks, than putting out meaningful content because it makes the good ones harder to find. I probably watch YouTube the most but they definitely reward the algorithm-friendly content which puts creators in a tough spot because they have to consciously change what they put out if they need the income stream it provides from ad revenue. This is...