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Is there any more info about that new microspline, linkglide, 11s, 10-50 cassette that they are implying in the marketing material? Or is it a typo?
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BGoldstone Liked a reply to forum topic All Things Vital Downhill Fantasy

6/14/2026 3:18pm
I haven’t compared my team to the round winner before and interesting how close we were for a team but 100 points apart. Elites were pretty much the same except I took Matt Walker and they took Lisa Bouladou. I was head for jr men but they had Lina for +30 pt difference on the jrs. Overall we each had 10 riders
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Yoda Liked a reply to forum topic All Things Vital Downhill Fantasy

6/14/2026 3:18pm
Great stuff! I was a super close in 2nd (certain to be my best result ever) with 8 riders who all crushed it. Really like the retuned pricing- you have to be somewhat selective rather than just loading as many people as possible.
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segamethod Added a reply to All Things Vital Downhill Fantasy

6/1/2026 8:37am
The best team deterministically optimized after the event has 15 riders in this case, yes, but an optimization strategy before the event will maximize number of juniors to improve the performance floor. Unfortunately, that's nerdy as hell, which might be why the participation in Vital's DH Fantasy has been declining...

segamethod Added a reply to All Things Vital Downhill Fantasy

6/1/2026 7:43am
The "problem" with Vital's contest is that with no roster cap, the optimal team is 20+ riders, mostly a swarm of $10-15k juniors. Junior Men value is like ~270 expected points per $100k; best Elite Men value is ~85. Juniors are 3-5x more efficient per dollar, which means a high-performance floor is generally tied to having as many value-pick Juniors...
Positives: Saves wear and tear on your pedal bike. DH parts are more durable and stronger, generally, since lightweighting is not a design goal. Saves your body. Makes you feel like a goddamn rockstar. Downsides: Needs a service before bike park season. Your other "big" bikes suddenly feel like they descend like shit after bike park season.

Sherbet Liked a reply to forum topic Specialized Demo 11 - What do you want to know about it?

5/8/2026 3:06pm
I'd want justification for why the frame is $3600 more than a V-10 in CAD, while a crankset retails for well under 500. It looks like a stunning bike, but that pricing really is well beyond the norm. 15k Canadian with alloy rims and 350 hubs. I would like to hear from Specialized what they believe they are bringing to the market to explain that.
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Digit Bikes Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

5/2/2026 6:34am
Earlier this year I went to People For Bikes’ Bicycle Leadership Conference. I’m not a PFB member, I don’t feel like a shill for them, but I have an in person experience which seems relevant to this: I learned that they feel that e-motos pose an urgent threat to existing routes to schools, etc. They’re still supporting new routes, but are focused on supporting existing routes - because there’s a risk that reaction to reckless e-moto users could jeopardize all bicycle access to bike paths. Undoing PFB’s previous efforts. PFB seemed eager to have e-motos regulated as motorcycles, and the...
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