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Here’s hoping AI thumbnail images and other slop are OUT.

"Grow up and buy a pack of cigs like a real adult" 🤣

The wierdest thing is, with all this ebike market domination hype, I don't know anyone who rides one.

Think you meant Goldstone vs Bruni vs Asa

Out: The original Tech Rumors thread (RIP] In: The new Lower, Longer, and Slacker Tech Rumors thread Edit: Missed that on the list..

I know this deal is expected to take up to 18 months to close, but, Netflix/WBD deal is something to keep an eye on. The future of seeing live MTB racing is in oligarchs hands.

1) Someone wins a WC XCO on 32" wheels. 2) Gracey Hemstreet goes undefeated. 3) Relatively affordable badass e-bikes that I will secretly covet but publicly shame while on my singlespeed.

prediction: Vital Cheese eclipses popularity of vital MTB. Cheese Rumors thread hits 1000 pages by June

I’m down with the 120/130 stuff but I really want to see brands move away from flex stay and back into higher performing suspension designs on these short travel bikes. It’s interesting that Giant explicitly called out other flex stay bikes having excessive flex in their stays and I think there is something to that. The short travel bikes can be incredible but I just hope 2026 finds them freed from the XC limitations…

A friend of mine was using these this past summer. He really liked them.

I’ve been riding in these pads exclusively for over a year, and I highly recommend them! They are very comfortable, stay in place well, are durable and easy to maintain, and offer a significant amount of protection for its level 1 cert. No pad is perfect and after a year+ the foam ring on one of my pads has a break in it at the low point over my shin (this is sown in and not replaceable). Although the D3O pad is well formed, I have had days where the bottom edge of the pad has dug into and irritated...

I've been riding these for a few months, and they are my go to pads, at least for non-Summer temps. I had been riding the Rapha pads, but I was looking for something with a bit more protection. The extra foam around the edges is appreciated, but it does make the pad warmer. These are definitely sweatier than the Rapha pads, which, to be fair, are the most comfortable pads to ride in that I have experienced. The calf strap provides enough hold from the bottom that I actually put the top gripper over my bib liners to reduce the...

Really proud of this brand to have started during the most crazy time to start a clothing and protection brand and it appears to be making good stuff with a solid fan/customer base. Bravo to Akta, I am impressed.

I think you're right on the 120-130mm bikes. I think bikes are going to divide into short travel bikes, ebikes, and DH bikes. Maybe not 2026 but at some point. And I bring this up because some folks don't know (literally a friend of mine was telling me how much they miss parmigiano reggiano but they haven't had it since they've become lactose intolerant): Aged hard cheeses have less lactose than younger and/or softer cheeses. If a person is intolerant, they might still be able to have parmesan, Romano, Manchego, and other aged hard cheeses. The aging process in cheese...

Nothing remarkable happens in 2026.

120-130mm bikes become even more popular Cheese becomes even more loved, even by people who are lactose intolerant E-bikes become loved by everyone.

Biking will continue to be a lot of fun and selling bikes will still be pretty dang rough in the woods and streets.