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I will never understand the “it’s a whole separate sport” thing. I ride my ebike exactly like my analog bike just do more laps. Literally every other person I know with an ebike does the same and is not going out and climbing up downhill trails in boost. I see plenty of e-bikes on the lift at the bike park being ridden like analog bikes. The innovation is happening in the motor and battery because the “bike part” of the tech has plateaued. Amflow proved this by making a decent riding bike out of thin air.

I also nearly said that, but then gave them the benefit of the doubt that a brand like Santa Cruz would have made clearance for (probably?) the most common enduro shock of the last decade on the Float X2

Calculated is 172mm

If only someone made a linkage that allowed a longer shock to to be run on the Levo and it yielded 170 mm of travel. That would be wild.

Levo 4 Evo. We need a thread listing worst mouthful bike names.

Dreadnought + Avinox = Dreadnought E: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/introducing-forbidden-dread…

Se we got the e-enduro before the new enduro... https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/specialized-introduces-levo…

They're coming. They're all model year 2027, so you won't see them for a bit. Lol, Trek will most certainly be selling their 32" race bike. These companies know that it wins on Sunday, sells on Monday. That's how they've built their businesses. Not going to have their racers on 32" carbon bikes (molds cut) and sell 29" versions.

You will be pleased to hear that you can make it EVO in due time.

Cane creek usd fork announced https://www.canecreek.com/products/invert-enduro-deposit

I can confirm this to some degree. The upcoming e-bike from Specialized is the long-travel Levo EVO - 180mm front, 170mm rear, more rowdy intentions than the regular Levo. Launch of the Demo 11 is also imminent. I've got nothing new to tell about that one, we've all seen it in action at this point.

Except there is no "flurry of 32 inch releases" and there wont be for some time (, if ever). I predict that a lot of the big-brand 32" bikes will never really be released to market and instead take the form of small batch, not publically available racing-team special editions - like the upcoming Trek XC bike.

One of the reviews that came out yesterday (I can't remember which) talked to the product manager and asked about the Vivid and his answer was basically they wanted to differentiate the lower spec builds from the higher spec builds which have a coil and the Vivid would blur those lines too much.

Hey all, I can finally take off my very sneaky blue tape camouflage to reveal that yes, I’m reviewing the new Nomad. Because I’ve spent so many years on the old Megatower, I’m framing this as a Megatower vs. Nomad comparison. Especially interesting for me because of the rumors that the Megatower is going away and the new Nomad does not take 29” rear wheels. I only have a couple rides in on the new bike, but so far the geometry feels really good and the bike feels solid and stout. Weirdly I haven’t been able to figure out the...