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MAGURA Liked a reply to forum topic Magura's New Race Pro Brakes - Get Your Questions Answered! - Forum Hot Seat

9/23/2026 7:02pm

Hey itsky, thanks for your questions! We have to separate this topic into full-bleeding (e. g. after installing new caliper, hose or master) or just quick-bleeding in order to get the air bubbles out. For quick bleeding, I would say (of course, I'm Magura, but trust me, I'm also an engineer 😉) that we have the easiest and quickest quick-bleed you can imagine. No special tools needed, just a standard 25 ml syringe you get anywhere with a hole at 25 ml mark (can drill by yourself, if needed). All our modern brakes use the international Luer Standard. And then...

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MAGURA Liked a reply to forum topic Magura's New Race Pro Brakes - Get Your Questions Answered! - Forum Hot Seat

9/23/2026 7:01pm

Thanks for your questions, bottoms-up-brian! The MT7 and the RACE are both in our "Heavy Duty" class, meaning the total weight can go up to 225 kg. But the caliper of the RACE is a completely new construction, way stiffer (even stiffer than GUSTAV!) but we machined every gram of Aluminum away, so the caliper weighs the same as the MT7. But, yes, you're right.. the disadvantage of an Aluminum master is the heavier weight 😉 With our Carbotecture material we can build even lighter and more compact. That's why BMW is using our Carbotecture material for their motorcycle masters...

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MAGURA Liked a reply to forum topic Magura's New Race Pro Brakes - Get Your Questions Answered! - Forum Hot Seat

9/23/2026 7:01pm

You can keep on asking, I'm still a bit here. 😉 I'm Ingo, CEO of MAGURA, and jumping in here for a few more hours as my colleagues have their off time. Happy to answer your question... love this "Hot Seat" format here... 🤩

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Stiksandstones Liked a forum topic 30 years ago-Deer Valley NORBA National coverage

9/15/2026 7:07am

First post/link was blocked? US Open weekend feels like the right time for a 30-year throwback to the classic NORBA National era. I’ve been slowly digitizing and archiving all our old 90s VHS tapes so this history doesn't get lost. Here’s the 1996 Deer Valley National broadcast on ESPN. My better half, Leigh Donovan, took the double win in Elite Women’s DH and Dual Slalom that weekend! It was an awesome event, though as the team wrench back then, I vividly remember we went through some wheels and the dust was pretty savage on fork seals.

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TylerCloward Liked a reply to forum topic E-bike talk: not tech rumor derailment

9/2/2026 8:39am

I can add a bit more being on the design team for this bike. We can do a better job at calling out the "why" in the short press release. There will be upcoming videos talking about it, but here it is from the design side of things. As bike designers we are constrained by the shape of the motor and battery. We can't change these designs. Riders are wanting bigger batteries (800wh in this bikes case). We also have great demand to fit more shocks, from inline, to the largest enduro and coil shocks. We have to have fork...

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FlameThrower Liked a reply to forum topic Vital’s Bikes: Unaffiliated Podcast - Community Conversation

8/11/2026 1:06pm

Flats = CORE Change my mind.

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Ridgy Added a comment about blog post Underexposed: Klamath Falls, OR

8/8/2026 9:34pm

Your well reasoned response is certainly appreciated and I certainly don’t want to be defending clearcut monocrop type forestry or old growth mining or money grabs where environmental protections are looked at as inconveniences. I fully acknowledge that rural Oregon has been stuck in a special kind of hell with the loss of the logging and fishing industries that sustained many of its small rural communities. I am only speaking from my personal experience working in restaurants, the wine industry (cellar work, tasting room and shipping) and now as a CA licensed forester with experience working for a large industrial...

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Ridgy Added a comment about blog post Underexposed: Klamath Falls, OR

8/7/2026 9:25am

There doesn’t have to be a transition away from an extraction economy just one that is driven by greed and an aversion to science based management. Tourist based economies are fickle too and are constantly under pressure to submit to the whims of the people coming to enjoy the amenities and experiences on offer. The hustle to sell yourselves and your area to visitors from outside the area, and let’s be real the tourism economy is often based on making rural isolated places palatable and attractive to the sidewalk/desk bound masses desperate to get out of their concrete jungle/jail. The...

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TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic Two bike garage dilemma

7/31/2026 5:11am

I agree with what @ebruner is saying here. The secret to happiness when you only have a one or two bike quiver is to have an alternate-personality wheelset ready to go- XC one day, enduro the next. Or trail one day, DH the next. Changing tires all the time gets old fast. Having a spare aluminum wheelset with tires, rotors, and a cassette mounted is way more fun, and it's still a lot cheaper than having a whole other bike. And it takes up less space, too.

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brash Liked a reply to forum topic Two bike garage dilemma

7/31/2026 5:11am

I'm down to just big travel eeb and steel hardtail now. I don't regret my decision. Polar opposites in bikes but I can get my fix from either depending on the mood.

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storm.racing Liked a reply to forum topic Why do you CARE so MUCH about new bikes geo?

7/7/2026 5:43am

all I do is yell at the clouds though. I'm tall... lots of things in life end up being a little bit different!

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sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic Sea Otter Classic - 2026

4/19/2026 7:41pm

Neko Mulally won the DH on his freak bike with 32" front wheel w/ XC racing slick. - https://results.raceroster.com/v3/events/ajsmbwfa6za9y9np - chatting with him at dinner the other night (before the race), all he cared about was rolling speed. cornering knobs were "good enough" and if he could manage the off-camber after the uphill on the course, the rest was basically going straight and fast. seems like his strategy paid off.

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Ridgy Added a reply to Who rides in pants that aren’t specific MTB pants?

4/2/2026 8:41pm

Another vote for the hybrid shorts, usually inexpensive ones from Costco. When pants are called for, I wear some lightweight hiking pants; I need at least 36” inseams so options are somewhat limited. I used to ride a rigid Gary fisher in jeans (505 Levi’s) all the time before stretchy men’s pants were common. Now I am all stretch and...

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

3/28/2026 10:47pm

Back at it again with my horrendous image measurements, this time something actually bicycle related. I took the shock eye to eye of 225mm and zoomed in super close to align it to the centre of the shock bolts and scaled the image until the measurement was exactly 225. I drew a line to the middle of the shimano crank spindle and the middle of the rear thru-axle (also zoomed in until my eyes were bleeding to estimate the centre as best as possible). I then measured the horizontal distance between the two points (used construction lines to make this...

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

3/28/2026 10:35pm

Vital forum detective level just hit a new high...

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

3/28/2026 10:34pm

Unfortunately I'm an idiot, so I'll answer your question even if it is sarcastic. I found a known value that's easy to measure, the rear brake rotor. I set it to 203mm (as mentioned in a bike check from my memory) 16.2cm = 6.377 inch, rounded up however the app used rounds things and also not a perfect angle. Closest match for phone size would be a Iphone 16/17 pro max at 16.3 cm or a google pixel 9/10 at 6.3 inches. I'm going to go with the iphone 16/17 pro max. I should touch grass. I'm also either going...

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owl-x Liked a reply to forum topic I want some useful data. How long have you owned your ebike with no failure/warranty? (And which ebike MOTOR/battery did have failure/warranty?)

2/15/2026 6:03am

Dude. Just buy one. The motors are easily as durable as any of the other stuff in this hobby. If you’ve accepted that you can put a catastrophic scratch on a fork stanchion pulling your bike out of the garage, blow up a wheel at the trailhead kiosk, and get broke off on a green trail, the motors are just fine. Battery degradation is my main eeb concern in 2025. Eebs are the purest form of mountain biking ever: bomb smash repeat. The rippin and the tearin. Philosophical tenderberries that think there’s some sort of karmic reward for earning your...

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