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Intense needs some AF models IMO. Do they offer the Carbine, 279, and Tracer in aluminum? If they do, I've never seen any in person. And just like YT, Intense was another company that was all-in on the Shimano powered eebs. They had some crazy fire sales on their e bike line the last few years, and that couldn't have been good for their bottom line.

Can people redo that drop out test by tightening the pinch bolts incrementally instead of torquing one down completely before doing the other? I know the manual doesn't say that but its the proper way to tighten any pinch bolt system

Hey @TEAMROBOT do you still have your podium? How annoying would it be for you to try to replicate this? Schroeder and I were talking about this and he mentioned that the fork is probably constantly going in and out of alignment on the trail and questioned how much it even matters that the fork is starting in perfect alignment when there's no load. My thinking is that if your fork does bind like this but still feels as good as you say, then he's probably right.

Brook since his horrible crash and a decline in his results has always come across in interviews and what not a little salty about his sponsor situations and all the bouncing around he's had to do but doesn't want to pop off about it... I think when your job is no longer guaranteed and you are essentially just risking your life for not much gain they start to get a bit bitter with the sport and culture of it all.

just read through most of this thread and it really tugged at the ol' heart strings and had me sad that I didn't switch to MTB sooner haha! for a long time i thought I liked PB better than vital but over the years I realized that the content and the vibe was so much better here. more intelligent posting, better race coverage, etc. My name is Sean and I live and ride in Santa Cruz where i work at a grocery store in the produce department. I have been a bike lover forever but there was a time when...

There should be some sort of fine handed out to companies who unjustly run frame diapers

The part about fox wanting to see forks themselves in the early stages of a product launch is actually legitimate - it can be a real issue when people try to sort problems themselves since they are often misdiagnosed or not even reported back to the manufacturer at all. For example, when a shop opens up a fork that's only a few rides old and finds no oil , they probably think it just wasn't filled at the factory when it was actually sucked in to the damper. If they just add more oil, it just increases the problem and...

I listened to the podcast and heard that my comment made people laugh. Thanks for the shout out.

It's simple - if you're not at least trying to explore how to incorporate AI into your day to day work responsibilities, you're behind and your job will be in danger sooner than later. Shit's advancing more quickly than anyone knows how to control. There's not a day where I don't wish that AI would disappear but I truly don't think there's a single industry in the world that won't experience some level of change because of it. If there's an industry that doesn't leverage computers, someone (or something) will notice that and figure out how to do it cheaper...

i want to more seriously attempt to explain my lifelong struggle with dirt jumping so that my original post might take on new light for yall: I started riding bmx young and got my first real bmx bike when I was 11. I saved up birthday and christmas money and bought a mongoose (pre-walmart days...) I grew up hitting wood ramps and looking in awe at the dirt jumps built along the creek in Gilroy. I would later come to find out they were jumps that guys would come to ride from all over the bay area. these were steep...

You don't like light bulbs????? Say what???

you are 100% correct, it defaults to affirming and validating everything the user says, to the point where it will just flat out give you false information. but again, reducing chat-gpt to a chatbot only hides its true power, it doesn't erase it. it isn't a friend, it is a completely different way to analyze data and to surface connections in data that we have never and will never be able to connect. the printing press enabled distributed knowledge on a scale never before seen. Chat-GPT recentralizes that knowledge in a framework that allows cross-referencing and synthesis across domains that...

dude I am autistic i put that right up front for y'all lol

I only worked there for about a year and a half, but I’ve known the brand and the people for a long time. And yeah, I tend to agree—it might’ve been exaggerated. Kinda like that rumor about Lopes always parking crooked in his van because someone snapped a pic a couple times... and now it’s gospel lol. Point is, I knew how many frames were made and sold during my time there. I wasn’t in warranty or CS, but I was close enough to the crew to see what was going on. It wasn’t like frames were flying out the...

Brines – thanks for those finance blogs, some solid reads in there. I’m subscribing. On Rapha (and bike apparel in general), saw someone in the thread say, “Walmart bought it, I’m out.” Bit unfair, no? It wasn’t Walmart—it’s the Walton grandsons. Say what you want, but they’re bike fans. And if we’re being honest, if any of us were billionaires, we’d probably scoop up some cool bike brands too. I think they’ve also got their hands in Allied and Wahoo? Honestly, not the worst portfolio if you’re trying to uplift cycling. Rapha’s got a new CEO too, and from what...

I was on my phone and didn't zoom in enough. Okay then return of the Diamonback Knucklebox. Only soo many ways to package a vertical shock and get a useable LR.

I think Intense is mostly a victim of their own hubris. There is no doubt they've been a huge influence in the market, especially in decades past, but that has waned considerably. I think they began losing luster once Sapa/Anodizing Inc shuttered frame building ops in OR, as then they went Asian carbon manufacturing. That didn't jibe well with many of the fans of the brand. Then you have them pulling out of the LBS's, and I remember being in SoCal and amazed at the number of shops that carried them prior to that. Talk about a kick to the...