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I have been considering open sourcing my design for several years now. Likely the approach I would take is to provide a carrier board (not dissimilar to an Arduino shield) that handles all the power management, bluetooth, and GPS connections and allow people to manage their own wiring harness, battery selection, 3D printed cases etc. The firmware is all C++/Arduino so its pretty easy to get into. Having a single carrier board eliminates a lot of the headache around integrating all the different devices in different ways and allow everyone to work from a common connector standard (and base firmware...

lol. Spomer just fanning the fires. Related but unrelated - why is the 2025 thread pinned but not this one? Surly we can move on.

"You boys never seen a Horst link before?"

https://what-if.xkcd.com/154/ Relevant.

I don’t know where you’re getting your data from, but the anecdotal evidence is stacked against you. I know from skiing the same trails that are fire roads in the summer that bicycles are significantly lower-drag than skis. Green ski trails, comfortably straight-line-able on snow, can be eye-wateringly fast on a bike. Maybe square-inch for square-inch skis and snowboards are lower drag than DH casing tires, but they have a much larger contact patch.

As said above, rolling vs sliding. Different frictionz, different maffz

First, let's define "power" so we are both talking about the same thing. All the high-end brakes (and many others) can generate enough braking force to lock up both wheels in any situation - the question is how hard you have to pull on the lever to get there. When people refer to a "powerful" brake, it usually means there is a big difference between finger force and braking force at the wheel. In other words, if you can generate the same stopping power at the wheel with less finger force, the brake is more "powerful". The TR4 is in...

If I was Markus Flossmann I'd be doing everything I could to look after the Mob riders and staff just from a public relations perspective. If he wants to rebuild the brand then being seen to have done the right thing could be a good start .

US OPEN RACE REPLAY!

This is good to hear. I remember back in the late 80s, when lots of state offices just went ahead and shut mountain biking down in State Parks. Pennsylvania did this for sure, but I believe it was "a thing" in other states, as well, and in federal lands too. It was a combined effort of horse-back-riders, hikers, and birders, that basic closed access to many areas, and it took a decade before some of that started to roll-back. This woman's "the sky is falling" argument is illogical (it was a ski area already, duh), and out-of-time. In the age...

Dare me to like you even less, Flossmann. Miss a paycheck and you’re out forever.

More rips from the bowl takes, no inside info at play. O'Callaghan to Mondraker Already hit this one, but Dunne connection. Norton to Syndicate I'm not sure they're going to keep Greenland, a healthy dak could maybe grab a few more points for the team and bring a sort of American ratboy energy to the team. Greenland to Continental Atherton At the moment Atherton needs some energy who better than a local bloke to up the stoke and the team points.

From how it ended with Gwin and later Dak it never seems like YT was interested in doing the "honorable" thing.

I quite like the idea of Laurie Greenland and Charlie Hatton on the same team, they have similar energies

I hope Dak is not on gwin racing purely from a pay standpoint. Can’t imagine Aaron is in a position to offer our boy what he deserves

Saw on IG that Dak picked up the win at the US Open today.. Considering how hard his recovery has been, it was good to see him win.. Maybe give him a bit of a boost going into Lake Placid and MSA..

Speaking of Brage... how has no one else signed him yet? He's the pinnacle of freeride mtb in the same way Loic or Jackson are the pinnacle of dh racing.

Shoutout to @chriskief for all the work above - HUGE! Greatly appreciate it.

" My guess is they were having discussions about the state of the company and Ardian's continued financing long before the flash sale or Ardian's final decision." I'd not be surprised if Ardian hadn't put a "we want to see $X by the end of the quarter to show you can actually sell" target in place and the flash sale was the last ditch attempt to do that - regardless of profitability.

It's interesting seeing Markus' take on it - I've worked through 6 M&A cycles in my career, and always, always, always, the PE/VC/corporate acquisition unit look at board & SLT conduct & optics. Think like an investor - would you sink money into a business with shaky (at best) financials, disrupted supply chain, global tariff wars, in a market segment in well publicised decline (probably where you've seen investment industry peers take a haircut), AND with a founder/CEO who's acting like he wants Ballerbusters to feature him? I love what YT did in terms of market disruption, brand development, product...