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So… not like this?

Oooooh I love word puzzles

All i can confirm here is that it does not look like someone took a chainsaw to it, but they have not taken a spartan approch to the design. I think it's going to create a big bang when it drops.

https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2026/07/garmin-acquires-training-trainheroi… Garmin buying training peaks though to me seems kind of weird. I'm not sure how it helps them compete with their Chinese competitors other than perhaps locking out automatic upload integration from those brand's devices. Seemingly they really want to generate some subscription revenue (Garmin Connect+). I guess we will see the financials in a few quarters, it might just be a good deal on its own.

I wonder if some of the flexy Amflow chat comes from some of the early/preproduction bikes. The bikes were seemingly around for a good bit before they actually were available for purchase, and they were shown to shops etc. However it's quite easy to believe that they changed things, including the layup before production to address issues as part of a normal development cycle that just happened to be a bit more public because they were mostly focused on launching avinox. I get that people might think the customer bikes are still flexy, but were the early bikes SUPER flexy...

Not rumor or top secret tech (or is it?!), but all this SS talk got me excited... Fellow Luddites rejoice. $5 in hardware and proper reuse of a destroyed derailleur: Keeping it about tech, though, this little contraption really made me want to try the Lal Supre Drive. I hope the Supre Drive or similar concept shows back up in the future.

Dead shifter pod class. Lame AF IMO. Make SS hardtails again.

The USAC XC “singlespeed” national championships were all just won on axs-with-the-batteries-removed last week. I announce a bunch of xc races on the east coast…it’s been a few years that the top single speed racer has been on anything except a full-suspension bike with an unplugged battery. An interesting note about most of the blinglespeed slope-bike tensioners… they don’t work with a large enough cog for most people to pedal uphill…

yes, you can stand on your derailleur

As someone who owns multiple Singlespeeds, I wouldn’t even pay that much. I’m currently running a SRAM DH derailleur as a tensioner on my SS epic evo.

It looks great but $381 for a chain tensioner is crazy. It's more that the Madrone Jab

$381? This is for blinglespeeds, not singlespeeds.

https://grazrcomponents.com/products/tensioner?variant=44181619638355&u… Super sick single speed tensioner from a small company. Really love riding single speed and the sb one was the ONLY decent one ever. Stoked to see this.

Most ski companies want their warehouse empty by early December, remaining items are closed out by January. There is some carry out over for lower churn segments like kids and backcountry. The ski industry is still making good money by selling new top sheets and colors each year and they will probably keep going. The least technology advanced products with the least R&D cost have the best margins. Sony get me wrong, ski technology is innovating and improving but compared to a bike the tech is more mature and people typically buy with shorter time horizons in mind

I don't think anyone who understands the basics of gearboxes or derailleurs expects them to be a good fit for XC bikes in the foreseeable future.

My impression has been that most posters in this thread agree that GB with chain or belt have a justifiable place in gravity bikes. It's their use in XC and trail bikes that get pedaled a lot that is still a point of contention. Also, I'm not sure if this is common knowledge here, but a new discovery for me was that eCVTs with dual motors provide infinite gear ratios using just a single planetary gear stage with no belts or chains internally, which can bump up the efficiency over older belt or chain-driven CVTs substantially - probably something like...

I used to run that setup 22/32T but then realised I didn't need the 32T over here in the Alps. I also came across a narrow wide 22T direct mount sram chainring on Aliexpress so now just run that. When I go ride somewhere flatter I put on a bigger chainring.

Fred, are you just running a 2x crank in front and droppin down manually when needed for those long grinds the puttin the chain back up onto the larger ring for the descents? Some guys around here (SW Colorado, lots of long steep high altitude grinds in the high country) used to do that too. No front derailleur. Just the double ring. Takes about 10 seconds to move it between rings. I don't run that setup, but I do run a 28/52 for the same reason as you and also because its a bit easier on my knees for steep...

The rider currently leading the Men’s elite Overall EDR is on a Belt driven high pivot gearbox bike. Interesting times we are in.

I think tahnee has some years left. She’s like 5-6 years younger than myriam. She’s got time to cash some more checks traveling with her boyfriend. Lots of women are choosing to have kids a bit later these days if that’s a pursuit of hers.