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Funny screen grab… oops… But more production ready frames… more brembos, and different Ohlins stanchions.. I think frame and brakes are soon! Let’s hope. I want the brakes. Not sure on Ohlins but will be interesting to see that direction

Darren Baum already did this so I'd be shocked if Cannondale isn't all over it... "Less easy was the fork, and rather than going the rigid route, Baum customised a Cannondale Lefty Ocho mountain bike fork (if you can call it that). “There’s no arch to get in the way of the tyre, but it had too much travel. The front wheel would have ended up hitting the down tube during compression, too, so we did some work in house to reduce the travel to 80 mm, which is what we were after for a gravel bike,” shared Baum of...

Sorry, just realized that the contents of that website are, in fact, not available in English. Now I'm sitting here, having a little laugh thinking about how jarring and discordant that word must sound to anyone who's not used to German pronounciation. English: effective top tube length 😊 German: OBERROHR 😬😠

I saw this scrolling on Instagram, a friend in the USA, proto of which brand? Trek?

Jack Moir confirms he’s off YY and still looking for a new team.

YT Yuge Theft

People lose jobs, investors taking a bath, people ordering bikes that never arrive, riders without a team etc the audacity to call people keyboard warriors is wild lmao. YT literally FUCKED OVER countless people but sure, call us keyboard warriors.

You gotta pay to produce the best marketing content they have? That seems a bit backwards.

Saudis buying WBD? WBD just sent me the $3k invoice for filming Vital RAWs this year (I figured they forgot), so maybe they're getting ducks in a row.

Interesting. I never would have thought mountain bike tech would evolve around your derailleur collecting data, then your phone sending it to sram to then create a firmware update to better optimize it.

I stumbled across another firmware update in the Sram app today for transmission rear derailleurs. It is another step faster now through the gears, and their 2nd improvement in shift speed this year.

I think derailleur lifetime really depends on where and how you ride, what the condtions are like and even the impurities in the water from your hose pipe. For me Shimano 12 speed derailleurs (Deore, SLX or XT) were terrible with clutches and jockey wheels seizing after a few months and b-bolt and parallelogram pivot play ruining shifting in far less than a year. I find that the most robust 12 speed mechanical derailleur from Shimano or SRAM is the X01 Eagle, but they still only last about 2 years including new b-bolts and aftermarket jockey wheels and cost about...

Back to crab related rumours. Kavenz has started prototyping their VHP V8 which will be carbon tube and cnc’d lugs. They will be posting a series following along with all the details, similar to what they did when they created the first version of their frame.

That pic is from a graphic artist on IG who does MTB related stuff. Pic is a few years old now but definitely not Ai slop

I will never not downvote AI slop

The mental image of the guy hiding in the bushes is hilarious

Peeked the prototype sixfinity Yeti SB160 while on my ride today. Didn’t get the greatest look as they were being sneaky-sneaky with it. I chatted to the product manager (who was on SB140) a bit, all he’d divulge was that it was the SB160 and that it’s a “sweet bike”, while the guy on the 160 was hiding in the bushes. But what I saw was a vertical shock orientation, and frame storage door, looked sleek AF and could be close to production ready...

SRAM AXS beta firmware... looks like they've got a faster Bluetooth protocol coming...

In honor of the 1000th page, we should vote on the best meme of 2025: 👍🏻 for “Crab” 👎🏻 for “6-7” edit: Carcinization is the antithesis of innovation. Maybe we should keep crab talk on the crab talk forum and keep this thread focused on MTB tech rumors and/or innovation.