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sure. from now on, we'll do something like that.

Please never use that term again thx

Sounds like a great trend. Pedal circles and don’t mash your pedals, use a lock out, or go with Neo. No need to sacrifice suspension performance on a long travel bike.

It's not available but you can definitely put a 29er front wheel on it if you really want. Then again, if you want a mixed wheel alloy dh bike with similar aesthetics, go Raaw.

Small nerd correction: what Orbea is doing is really smart because they can make the same (or more) number of SKUs but reduce their CAPEX (mold investments & tooling) significantly. Hypothetically, they can make 10 DH models and 10 Enduro models (lots of SKUs) but from a "single" mold investment and different metal links (reduced CAPEX). This is very challenging for Orbea because they have to essentially plan 2 different bikes in the same mold set up. More has to be figured out (compared to making separate DH and separate Enduro bikes) before they go to tooling. We do a...

Saves money in a lot of ways, especially molds. So yeah, kinda smart.

I love this. For ages brands were saying their Enduro bikes were DH bikes you could pedal, but nobody put their money where their mouth was until recently!

Looks like Jackson is using a remote pull off system on his goggles which he can activate with a button on his handlebars Goggles: https://youtu.be/nYpi-M6LMp8?t=4 Remote: https://youtu.be/nYpi-M6LMp8?t=1449

I would think it would be to get the tire tighter on the wheel.

this is a race vid, but lots of tech with troy, jackson and reece from poland world cup DH

My Spire with a dual crown weighs more than my tr11 but obviously pedals much better. Might even weight more with a 38 instead of a z1. But I wouldn't mind if both bikes worked as well and weighed less!

Plenty of people are out there pedaling dual crown forks around or converting their forks to coil. If it performs well nobody will give two shits what it weighs.

But you also have a triangle connecting the rear wheel to the front or at least a single piece box section, not a bushinged tube in tube arrangement where the two tubes can rotate one relative to the other. These details do wonders for stiffness. QED, 20 years ago it was completely normal to run a 20 mm axle in the front and a QR in the back.

The peasants have spoken.