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Blah blah blah heard this so many times, I pedal up to enjoy my ride down. Everyone's all about their idlers, heavy a$$ forks and tires etc that make so much more of a difference in the effort on the way up, while offering much less on the way back down than a gear box. Trying to focus on the innovation here. Everyone heard that it's impossible to pedal a bike with a gearbox (mostly from those who read it on the internet or tried it once...). Derailleurs are stupid and if it takes a moped to get rid of...

I am going to be completely transparent here in that I work for FSA, but I will say I worked really hard on making the 31.8 40mm Gradient alloy bar one of the most compliant on the market. and here is the proof: (chart from PB article)

Shut the fuck up about drivetrain efficiency. Holy shit. Go find a different thread.

standing while climbing? motor goes brrrrrrrt

"anti-squat and electronic suspension rumors and innovation"

Every post you make is about XXL bikes and/or wanting 525 reach. it's exhausting. You're 6'4". Relax.

I have fox vest that I more or less use as a high vis vest since there’s hunters many places I ride. The pull tab on the tiny zipper broke but it still works just fine.

To each their own. I don’t own either (and won’t anytime in the near future), but I would take a Surron before an e-bike everyday of the week if it was for personal use. (I would only ride the Surron on trails designated for motorized use or private property where I had explicit permissions)

people geek out over their e-motos just like we do about mountain bikes.

Yeah I feel like this post is a setup for average dudes to admit they’re afraid of the DHF! I am afraid of the DHF.

I wouldn't go as far to say that the Assegai has a no grip dead zone as you're leaning it over... I find it pretty agnostic to lean angle when compared to other tires (DHF for example). That being said, there is a type of loose over hard condition where the assegai is not quite at it's best. I have a non-engineering or scientific theory that it has to do with a combination of: knob support, overall width, knob arrangement/direction. These absolute shit show, golf ball sized gravel loose over hard, or deep loose/powder loose over hard or any loose...

Damn I consider the Assegai as ann all-lean angles mega gripper, have you ridden a DHF?

"or geometry prescription like road bikes are." the UCI has made a number of attempts to regulate road and time trial bikes position and geometry... and usually they base the rules around a medium-large man. Then comes the amendment or extra clause that people over 180cm (category 2) or over 190cm (category 3) get slightly different rules once they work out that their 'once size fits most' arbitrary measurements dont work fairly for everyone. So give it a year or two and maybe they will decree that Coulanges gets to ride a mega mullet and Blevins and Aldridge get to...

I wonder what the legal recourse is if any? Quite a few brands have been testing openly and probably pouring oodles of money into it just for the uci to now ban them. With the sunk development costs, not just frame companies but wheels, tires, and suspension companies as well what's the chance it all still gets released just to possibly less sales since it's banned from high level competition?