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vital raw from today. INSANE conditions by the end of practice and neko bringing fun back to the pits!

So I'll bite for a chance at a free van trip. My name is Charlie, I'm one of the tech editors here, based in LA. I'm a former pro MTB racer, have done a lot of bike travel, and I've owned my very own bike van in the past. I think vans can be awesome for road trips but are a real drag as a primary vehicle, which is part of the reason why rental vans for bikes/motos seems like an interesting business idea. Would love to do a one week rental and go to school remotely. That would actually...

Sitting on old inventory just became more valuable. New stuff that hasn't landed yet is going to be much more expensive. Customers will be faced with a decision to pay more for the new new or, pay less for the old new. Hopefully the big boys landed all that rumoured Covid overstock into the US before yesterday. If not they'll be paying MORE for old and that's really really going to hurt. There is an upside for us Canadian's, you guys can come buy bikes here and play price arbitrage as we're not likely to hit the countries that manufacture...

To be fair, it's also possible that competitively priced and highly specialized manufacturing will pop up in the U.S. at enormous scale with armies of knowledgable, specialized non-immigrant workers in the next month to save us from these high costs. That's all we need. Well, that and in-country raw material extraction for materials that often don't exist in our borders in the quantities we need, like bauxite, rubber, lithium, cobalt, rare earth elements, etc. But if we can figure out those two aspects in the next month we'll be fine.

Rumor has it there will be a software update bumping the existing TQ motor up to 60nm before releasing a new motor for the MY26 bikes

only slapping this in here because of the topic of wages that came up. here's how much you can make in rural tennessee working at a massive gas station (saw it on the way to windrock). nearly quarter of a mil for experienced GM lol

Very funky looking dhx2

This is just the cassette that's used with the OEM only S1000 Transmission. That whole groupset kind of flew under the radar when it launched, but nothing new here.

I’ve heard the new motor is called the HPR 60, going to be 60NM instead of 50

New TQ will be coming on updated Fuel EXE - Run out sales happening, slash+ To get more models when new TQ comes. I was talking to a trek rep who knows me and said "just wait, You're fussy and youll like whats coming" I buy Far to many bikes.

Notice this press release didn't make it to PinkBike after that Ripmo review...