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AgrAde Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

6/11/2026 4:02am
Name a more annoying sound than an American complaining about ebikes. Honestly, we've all heard your opinions before. We know you have them. I don't really like or want an ebike either but there are 12,000,000 whingy comments online about how you're too pure or too dedicated or too fit or too angry at unskilled riders and you're mad about it. We don't need any more. Talk about the market or discontinuation of normal bikes, sure, but complaining about being passed on a climb track or peoples ass cracks is tiring af at this point. You've been yelling about it...
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TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

6/11/2026 4:01am
Guys, I know you don't want to hear this... but the racks on that new Levo 4 X monstrosity are really cool. Those ugly Levo X racks move all of the cargo on the bike from unsprung mass to sprung mass. As forum dwellers, we should all be able to appreciate why that's going to ride better, even if the XX cranks, the paint job, and the S-works price point are all serious headscratchers. If you don't believe me, check out this writeup from Travis Engel at the Radavist on a similar front rack design that he bodged together on...
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sethimus Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

6/10/2026 2:54am
We stopped stocking full suspension mountainbikes last year. I'll order them if there is demand for one. Else, it has a motor. We kept low cost hardtails for the youth though.

hamncheez2003 Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

6/8/2026 5:04am
The "multiplier effect" is an economic fallacy. "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
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sethimus Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

6/5/2026 3:23am
show me the non quadrocopter fpv drones they use in combination with an explosive then. afaik the most drones they use (bomber drones, fpv and the ultrafast ones against shaheds) use at least 4 or more motors. only the loitering types and the long range ones have less. therefore, they use a huge ass amount of motors per day, which...

sethimus Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

6/5/2026 1:11am
i don’t remember where i read it, but ukraine uses about 10 fpv drones per killed russian per day currently, that’s about 10-15k drones a day, times 4 motors.

Primoz Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

6/5/2026 1:07am
They're starting a company and building a factory to get to 30 million electric motors per year by 2030? Per year? 30 million? Is this a joke? Should that be billion? I work for a moderately small automotive supplier in freaking Slovenia and we probably make more than a million electric motors from our designs, by components, in a year. I'm not taking into account all the small DC motors from the likes of Johnson which are a commodity. I'm talking about stepper motors and BLDC drives that are similar to what's in ebike drives. Is the state of manufacturing...
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sethimus Added a reply to What bikes have you owned?

5/25/2026 6:16am
2002 Specialized Big Hit 2005 Morewood Showa LT 2008 Specialized SX Trail 2010 Knolly Podium 2011 Specialized Pitch 2014 Nox Cyclocross 2018 Bombtrack EXT-C 2021 Giant Trance X 2022 Orbea Rise 2023 Banshee Titan 2024 Specialized Kenevo SL 2024 Specialized Vado SL 2026 Velduro Rogue

sethimus Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

5/23/2026 5:21pm
what? margins are usually the same over the whole brand? at least when you are a big retailer. i never worked for a small shop. but the big ones usually negotiate that when putting down the order volumes. the bigger your volume the bigger your margins gets

sethimus Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread

5/22/2026 10:11pm
the more ebikes get sold, the more a shop can earn through just replacing the faster wearing parts. set the service interval in the software to 1500-2000km and you have a steady flux of people coming who want the service symbol to be gone again. even easier when financing those bikes. in germany, those contracts come with mandatory service intervals...