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ride Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/1/2026 12:46pm I can assure you it wasn't. I am still riding the bike, but intentionally didn't have it in my possession until the day of launch, to avoid this exact thing from happening.
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Flamethrower-O711 Liked a comment about Press Release Troy Lee Designs Launches New Stage Stunt 3/4 Helmet
5/24/2026 10:34pm
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ride Added a comment about blog post New Look Who Dis? - Santa Cruz Tallboy 6 - First Ride
5/21/2026 8:10pm Thank you! So far I haven’t reached the limit of the motives, but also haven’t done any sustained steep riding yet. So far so good thus far. Mavens feel too powerful for my lack of braking finesse, these seem like a complimentary spec for the bike. I’m 155llb though so that might be helping? I didn’t catch the brakes he was riding, and tbh I thought the Tallboy I rode had mavens until I checked my photos afterwards. I didn’t think about the brakes, which to me is a great sign.
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5/20/2026 4:42pmTheSuspensionLabNZ Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/20/2026 2:35pm You have to remember the true target market of this bike....if you really need that much extra resistance then a Tallboy is the wrong bike for you, full stop. The forum guys wanting to run a coil shock are a niche of a niche type of mountain biker so they aren't going to design the bike with that in mind. I also don't think its that far off, and they maybe chose to ship it with that shock spec so people can easily remove the spacers if that need to. And plenty of people have run coil shocks in bikes...
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Zuestman Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/20/2026 2:35pm I will also chime in here as a bigger rider that does enjoy this style of bike... a more linear feel like that is ideal because of the pressures I need to run. Otherwise bikes get WAY too progressive for larger riders. Easier to add tokens than be left with none to take out and then still be way too progressive. one of my favorite bikes was the strive... specifically because after the Vital review from Robot etc. they said it was way too linear and had to add spacers. I got on it and rode absolutely perfect for me.
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ride Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/19/2026 7:59pm I posted this to address a similar comment in the article comments, but will also share here. 'I only say this to address this comment, as my feedback might be deceiving. I'm likely riding a bike well beyond an acceptable tuning limit for mass consumption. I don't ride like that 24/7 because it's plain unsustainable for me at this stage...
ride Added a comment about blog post New Look Who Dis? - Santa Cruz Tallboy 6 - First Ride
5/19/2026 7:56pm Hey! I only say this to address this comment, as my feedback might be deceiving. I'm likely riding a bike well beyond an acceptable tuning limit for mass consumption. I don't ride like that 24/7 because it's plain unsustainable for me at this stage in life, but when my appetite surpasses self preservation I can dip in there. So, take my comments about my experience with the rear suspension on the Tallboy with a grain of salt. For reference, I'm finding that the Pike feels correct for me and my riding style at about 87psi with H/L comp in the...
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ride Added a comment about blog post New Look Who Dis? - Santa Cruz Tallboy 6 - First Ride
5/19/2026 12:13pm Yeahh. Sorry, not sorry haha. This is honestly my preferred seat wu, and I pedal quite a lot. This version of the Silverado is actually quite nice and it doesn't feel like it's as nose up as it looks. Like anything else, it's all about what you're used to. If a saddle has more forward tilt to it, I feel like I have too much pressure in my hands while seated. And having C5-7 disc degradation as badly as I do, it helps keep my pelvis rotated back in such a way to alleviate hand numbness that I tend to...
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ride Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/19/2026 9:16am Hey Matt, I rode and wrote about the Tallboy HERE. After only having two days on the bike now, my suspicion is that it's not really going to play that nicely with coil shocks. Ie: the beginning and ending lev ratio, combined with the amount of shock stroke won't offer the support a coil spring requires, nor the distance needed...
ride Added a reply to Vital’s Bikes: Unaffiliated Podcast - Community Conversation
4/2/2026 12:52pm Thanks! Great topics,, I’m sure we’ll fit this in somewhere. The pod’s far from dead, latest one is dropping soon. We’re all quite pinned atm. More soon! -Lars
ride Added a reply to Tweener: make a small bike big, or a big bike small
2/18/2026 8:20am This is an awesome topic! Approaching this from a generalized perspective, things to consider are where you live, style of trails you ride mostly, and what travel category bike you're referring to. I think on one hand longer travel bikes are easier to make a larger size feel smaller in the cockpit/rider area due to more sag and travel. But...
TEAMROBOT Liked a comment about Feature What Vital Users Liked in 2025 | bikes: unaffiliated podcast EP. 4
1/15/2026 10:22pm This was a great listen, as always. Thanks for the shoutout. And my suspension feels great to me, I don't care what you think, you big dumb dummy.
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drjrich Liked a comment about Feature What's In, What's Out - Mountain Biking in 2026
1/2/2026 2:14pm "More talk about positive mental health. More and more people are speaking up about their struggles. It’s becoming less taboo." - I know a guy 😉
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12/23/2025 1:42pmride Added a reply to UCI grant Discovery WC rights from 2023 to 2030
12/5/2025 10:45am My wife and I are big fans of the newish Netflix show "Dinner Time Live' with David Chang. Most of the episodes 'hit' (for us at least), and the ones that don't are mostly due to how wah wahhh the guests are. We don't watch it live, and tend to catch them at our convenience which is nice. If they're...
ride Added a comment about video Buried Alive with Jaxson Riddle
12/4/2025 3:52pm
Agreed Hogfly. I have been fortunate enough to have worked directly with Jaxson for many years. Before, during, and after his fathers passing. I saw first hand the pain and loss he was going through, and had many conversations with him about it. I am incredibly proud of him for working through it in the way he needed to. I was really hoping the end result of this project would project his journey and spirit in the way he intended. Thank you for being you Jaxson.
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ride Added a reply to Damper products that aren’t suspension
1/30/2025 9:33am Funny story about these. In 2003 I got hired to work at Softride here in Bellingham by my good friend Adam. I was chasing a career as a pro mountain biker at that time. As a prank, he ran a print ad for the suspension stem, with a fabricated quote from me endorsing the stem as a 'game changer' for...
ride Added a reply to MTB Compliance Analysis: Danny Hart's Modified GT Fury Frame
1/6/2025 6:11pm This is a rad article, and a really interesting discussion. Back in 2018/2019, I cut the seatstay bridge out of my Alloy Sentinel (This was the first article sample I had been riding for 1.5 years at this point). I initially did this to be able to accommodate using a 65mm stroke shock to get 160mm rear travel to experiment...
ride Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
10/22/2024 5:24pm Clay Harper and Chris Ball have separately visited a site(s) near SLC recently.