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sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Loudenvielle World Cup Downhill

5/29/2026 4:31pm
all they had to do was add an E and an I haha
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jonkranked Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

5/15/2026 3:45pm
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rgard Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

5/13/2026 4:00pm
This is a receivership sale, they are legally obliged to sell everything that isn't bolted down for whatever they can get for it. (Being bolted down probably doesn't even exclude it, let's be honest) They've obviously just walked into the Knolly premises, photographed EVERYTHING and set a nominal price for it.

rgard Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

5/13/2026 3:03pm
Having browsed every item they have in the auction (tempted to buy myself the contents of a room for $30) I'm not sure I see millions of dollars worth of stock there and the entirety of their IP was a convoluted suspension design to avoid paying Horst link royalties. Lowball 'em! That said if you need someone on the ground...
I think the "it needs a special frame" part of the equation is, observationally at least correct. Hattie is the smallest on the team and her setup, to my eye looks proportionally the most correct and is also the first time I've seen the RR stem on a bike, including the various test mules on instagram and thought; "Oh, I...

AndehM Liked a reply to forum topic Specialized Demo 11 - What do you want to know about it?

5/12/2026 3:38pm
How come they didn't design this bike around a Genie shock?
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Dave Waugh Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

5/12/2026 2:38pm
Interesting to note that with Orbea's AGM, they work with "one person, one vote". So you don't end up with a very small number of people controlling everything if they have more personal shares.
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lloyd506 Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

5/12/2026 1:48pm
Can hear that rats nest of cables rattling down the trail from here. Clean that mess up.
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That still doesn't explain why a design company that specializes in having bike frames built and assembled overseas has taken on the long term r&d costs of making a motor and battery system. Or how that play works out on the second go-around in a market utterly dominated by two incumbents, having already gone bankrupt once trying this. Or how...

ebikepartyshirt Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

5/12/2026 11:27am
The lack of headset routing is not the reason those cables look like shit. They all look a foot too long.
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Surely it would have been easier for Rocky Mountain to just give Avinox their lunch money. Of all the "what are you DOING?" MTB companies out there, Rocky's desire to do this all themselves and do it weird just doesn't make any sense to me. Can our resident financial guru explain what financial sorcery they are working with here that...

rgard Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

5/12/2026 11:06am
I stocked my home workshop with a lifetime supply of cables, crimps and ferrules plus hose, olives, banjos and barbs for multiple brands for less than I paid for my last 'Shimano' replacement line and banjo from my LBS, took about 10 days to arrive. Wouldn't even need to be that responsible to make it work, just slightly more responsible...

chriskief Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

5/8/2026 3:35pm
I'd be extremely disappointed in the bike industry if they didn't take this opportunity to also introduce a new hub standard. That would be VERY uncharacteristic of them.
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FullSend Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

5/8/2026 9:40am
Re: "Will we see any of the mega brands move to Avinox mid-term?" I agree that these price cuts are a direct consequence of Avinox eating everybody's lunch. But I don't think we'll see big brands starting to use Avinox, for compliance reasons. The one thing that draws consumers towards Avinox (- high power output) is basically also the reason why the big brands don't use them. If other electric motor OEMs like Bosch or Brose wanted to make, say, a 4.000 watt motor in an e-bike form factor, they absolutely could. I'm told there's nothing holding them back from...
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Backwards-compatibility and allowing easy future upgrades by keeping motor mounts standardized is such a basic, consumer-friendly feature that no MTB-centric company would even consider it. Would be even more of a struggle to shift Levo 4s if you could just put the new motor in the old one. DJI isn't playing in that league or even playing the same sport...

rgard Added a reply to 2026 South Korea world cup

5/6/2026 9:32am
To have any sort of crash in a world cup final in 2026 and still podium is bonkers. On a 2:40 track too. I can understand that Asa winning his debut is massive news and the story of this round but Amaury on that sort of pace has scrambled my brain, it really shouldn't be possible to do that. Adjustable...