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Hold up… You carry a spare derailleur when you ride?!? Are your trails on Mount Doom or something?

Time for a “gravel rumours” thread?

It'd be nice to keep this thread on topic "tech rumors and innovation". This thread has been so off topic the last few weeks / months even. Ask yourself "does my comment have to do with tech rumors and or innovation"? If no, stop. Heres a quick guide to others places to chat about various other hot topics. Tires: New One by sspomer https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/mountain-bike-tires Nerding out on Tires: https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/tire-chat-nerds-only Brakes https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/nerding-out-brakes-shall-we-not-ano… E-bike https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/e-bike-talk-not-tech-rumor-derailme… Debates on wireless : https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/poll-electric-shifting-vs-mechanica…

here's a thread dedicated to mountain bike tires 🤘 https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/mountain-bike-tires

Having run plenty of demo days I'd say it's about 30% just having a go on an expensive bike for free, 20% just telling you what is wrong with the bike, 20% "just confirming that my bike IS better", 20% "I'm thinking of replacing my 2011 bike in the next 3-5 years" , 9% having one of the bikes on a shortlist but "I'm going to buy whatever I get the best deal on" and 1% actually going on to buy something from the demo. A couple a year was more than enough to never want to do it again.

MTB = Monetary, Tariff, & Budget rumors

Bruh shut up alreadly and post a tech rumor

Maybe you guys can talk in french then? Reason 420 why we need gear boxes- we dont have to scroll past 10 pages of derailleur impressions

Looks like the wireless Fox dropper is just around the corner

Why dont you guys make a forum dedicated to new trends and standards you dont like, a one stop shop for companies to get feedback and for you guys to vent?

The Ripley of yesteryear is officially dead. No longer a light XC bike that could shred trails with 120mm. Now a 130mm bike that's pretty heavy and is actually the exact same frame as the Ripmo (just different clevis and shock between the two frames). This plus weird geo changes... Ibis trying to stay afloat/be profitable by selling two bikes with the same frame--just swapping a part and shock.

g-out project from VDS today. like 90 photos for internet-bike-setup-scrutiny https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/g-out-project-val-di-sole-world-cup-d…