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Delay no further, get one! I’d suggest you get the big dog and seek out bigger trails. Again and again.

from Hans Rey about ebike development Link: https://hansrey.com/blog/ An Open Letter to the Bicycle Industry By Hans Rey To the leaders, builders, advocates, and riders who shape our industry, I’m writing because I care deeply about where bicycles—and electric bicycles—are headed. We are at a crossroads. The decisions we make about language, power limits, and definitions will determine whether Class 1 e-bikes remain accepted as bicycles—or get grouped with much more powerful machines that don’t belong in the same category. It’s time to define our language and it’s time to draw a line in the sand of when e-bikes become...

7500ft with 504Wh with the e8000? That’s gnarly.

Are there really that many casual greenway riders/commuters that will spend $9k+ on a bike? No prob with that crowd, more people on "real" mountain bikes the better but I'm not seeing it with these prices. Edit: new Giant Stance E+ just dropped and starts at $4,700 so here's your greenway commuter for almost 1/2 the price. Who's picking the Levo R over that?

I want range which mean often times a big battery. My 50+ lb bike can do anything my 40# enduro bike can do on the descents. I want to ride big routes in the mountains and enjoy them or ride up shit that used to be hike-a-bike only. I would agree if was the mid power or SL bikes were the only options I wouldnt buy one. I have a moto thats a completely different activity. Climbing on my ebike with friends I can still talk and have a conversation. Riding moto you have 20 mins total of conversation for...

I miss the days of Swiss neutrality...

$1,700 for the full groupset is insane

So they're shaving the turd instead of polishing it then.

Great question. I don't know yet. I'm going to ride the fork when it gets back without any additional info, and then follow up with Push to get the details. Whenever possible, I try to know less during a product test so I can hopefully avoid confirmation bias.

A number of years ago I ran e.thirteens (made by Vee) with their MOPO rubber. Excellent rubber! As good as anything from the big dogs. I disliked the squared off profile on the e.thirteens so only ran one set. If Vee's 40 rubber is the same as MOPO I'd happily rock those as a front. Not sure if they have a good rubber option for the rear tire that'll wear better and roll faster.

Matters very much and I’m in Canada. Heading over to see Ireland vs Wales in a few weeks.

Her girlfriend is Mathilde Gremaud, a Swiss freeskier (defending Olympic champion). So it makes sense that she is present at the event.

She seems to be enjoying her offseason. Spotted her watching the Olympics this morning.

If you're not in the UK, Ireland, France or Italy, it doesn't matter! Rugby union

And the crab keeps on crabbin’

Chain guides have most certainly not disappeared.

Just a thought on bike weights. For ever, everybody has been going for the lightest weight bikes possible. And with the narrow wide chainring, chain guides have pretty much disappeared. But now riders are sticking lead weights to their bottom brackets. What if the good old MRP style chain guide came back, but made out of plate steel instead of alloy?

Long live the Diamondback Knucklebox, eh?

2026 Tr11 framesets source: reddit

Welcome back to the MTB world Haro