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If you're not from the US and you haven't seen this yet, I can't recommend it enough. It explains a lot:

Quoting measurements to 0.01mm on an aluminium mountain bike frame; they are very very over confident in the manufacturing capability of the factory.

Gott damn, Dave Weagle sure does love his short chainstays! Also the increase of ~3.5mm per size is near pointless. And yes I know CS length will grow at sag.

I don't see any reason to think that the v10 is going to move to UDH. Moving to UDH means giving up adjustable chainstay flip chips, and Syndicate runs Shimano drivetrain which doesn't use UDH anyway. Most people don't want or need a heavy, expensive, battery powered derailleur on their DH bike.

Just got an early access email from RMU about their new bike the Nighttrain - 170/170 full 29 DW Orion dual chain. Pricing is good at $2500 frame/shock.

That's why they are releasing this now: "Hey boss, can we start teasing the new goods? Not yet, gotta wait until thegromit orders the current version...."

Pbike rumouring size specific wheel size, seems very anti profit margin and a disaster for multiple skus and an aftermarket disaster

Most of you probably won't like hearing this. I certainly didn't. Earlier this week I had a chat with a guy who works in a product management role for Ralf Bohle GmbH, which is the owner of the Schwalbe tire brand. Mainly I asked a bunch of XC racing related questions, about compounds, casings, radial ply, rolling resistance testing, wheter we'll ever see the speediest XC casing with a black sidewall and why they felt they needed to change their naming scheme for casings and compounds. The gist of it is that they are hard at work behind the scenes...

Just trying to catch up after being away for 4 days. This whole discussion of PWM (pulse width modulation) is pretty stupid. PWM signals are, as the "width" part of the name indicates, a voltage that is either low or high (the digital aspect of the problem), but the actually data is encoded in the width of the pulse, and that is analog. Clocks on the sending and receiving end of the signal are needed to determine the actual value of the signal. Since clocks vary, some calibration procedure is needed so that both ends can agree on what 0...

Santa Cruz owners of 25 plus years all knodding their heads in agreement …. As they’ve put the grandkids down for a nap and can go to the garage and stroke their expensive anodized metal bike collection (still have good bearings !!)

According to their instagram it will be called the NIGHTTRAIN. Other details include suspension designed with Dave Weagle (by the looks of the pictures probably something similar to what's on the Phoenix) and that it will be offered in three different build kits.

Would be wild if this finally meant the release of the DH

I know we talked about this earlier, but we weren’t completely sure it was RMU. I’ve now received an email from them with this picture, so we can confirm it is their bike. It looks like it’s launching on May 1st.

I always called the lower link on my Norco Range the 'scrotum' that would bang into things - but this - this needs a name. Looks like the carbon bit will extend outside of that 'special area' and be exposed when suspension is active. What a very special area.

It’s a satire page. Once you’re aware it’s great entertainment.

Buying a Santa Cruz usually costs a bit more, but there are some legitimate reasons other than VPP to buy one. Kinematics / ride dynamics are well engineered regardless of linkage used SC geo is usually solid, nothing weird Build quality Ability to purchase replacement parts for many years (try buying parts for a 5 year old frame from any other bike company) Lifetime warranty (one that you can actually count on).

No, the Scott engineers are furious because Specialized added so many new links but didn't seal them inside the frame. They're yelling at their screen right now, "Just make it look like a pregnant whale! It's so easy!"