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People assume way too much about gearboxes and belts. Do not judge until your ride one. The reports you read about the drag or gripshift appear to be mostly from people who haven't ridden a gearbox bike and are just repeating what they heard. I have a gearbox bike with a belt drive, 155mm cranks. Full suspension with idler and tensioner. So lots of added "drag" beyond the gearbox itself. It's a big enduro bike that gets used for bike parks and shuttle laps too. I've beat it to hell and back for the last 3 years, broken frames, bent...

Maybe Bernard kerr is trying to get izabela yankova to pivot haha

Ok ill say it with my chest then. It's Pivot. I like the brand and BK is a bad look for them. I want them to do well, but in my opinion, they have to get rid of him and his Baggage to succeed.

At least 75k?

Posting this again because you may have not seen it. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1oioH7_ADLzuHFDC-pRGTnRCh8JLIt5u… Anything with a 3 in the confidence column is either confirmed by the team itself or is an extremely strong rumor. Confidence 1 or 2 are lower confidence in the rumor. The second sheet has a list of the teams that can be organized to show which teams will be within the top 15.

Now that the Pivot prototype's been out in the open for a bit, I decided to review the available shots/footage of the Spesh prototype and I am almost certain there's no concentric link to the BB. There's just no clearance from what I can see, and having tried all sorts of weird link configurations in Linkage (including a six-bar one that essentially acted like the old Demo with a completely forward axle path) it just doesn't make sense in any layout. What does make sense to me is those three bolts indicating a modular BB, which I believe @paddydigital suggested...

She probably ordered them 18 months ago and they just got delivered

They get it all over. A wishbone structure like they have here is not particularly stiff when you try to open it or close it. Adding a vertical brace makes it stiff (that's why triangles are so stiff). The thing is unless there is some magic going on with the layup, the chainstay and seatstay both curve all along the length to achieve this change in angle. Which is likely coupled with optimisations in the geometry of the links to require as little flexing as possible going through the travel.