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The purchase price of a product in no way reflects the margin to the manufacturer, especially in times like this. While @Dave_Camp has inside knowledge from the engineering side, I have the same sort of insights from the finance side. I can tell you with high amounts of confidence a lot of the pricing we are (still) seeing is not sustainable When your margins don't support your baseline cost to run your company + cost of capital, you will end up in bankruptcy. The only question is when, which is based on how strong your balance sheet is and how...

So your friend just jams in a hub that is 9mm wider than the chainstays are designed for? What shop does he work at? Just so I can make sure I never go there.

The bigger news is Bionicon was still in business for the last decade. I had no idea

I have no strong feelings about 32inch bikes or this bike except it has the most hideous attempt at bonding carbon to lugs I've ever seen! It looks like someone didn't even attempt to clean it up. I know it's a prototype but it's like 20mins work to get the right!

Conspiracy theory: it's just filled with sand and works like a deadblow.

I thought that shock had popped up in this thread but maybe it was Pinkbike. The speculation (note that it's only speculation) was Bilstein.

XO is way beyond XT and closer to XTR , GX is more compareable to XT from my experience.

I wouldn't tell people I'd won the lottery, but there'd be signs.

New Mallet DH?

Appears to be some sort of belted purse.

Thanks for the scrolling format. I love the nerdery, but always give up on having to swipe through.

Another thing that people don't understand- if something gets leaked before bike shops know whats coming, they can have lots of product on the floor that lose considerable value as soon as a photo is posted, as everyone will want to wait for the newnew or expect discounts. It's already hard being a bike shop owner, and some of this deleting is actually best for the industry in the long run. heavily influenced by Escapee Collectives discussions on this topic and embargos

a little birdy told me about a new dt swiss hub/system coming probably in september working similar to the e13 sidekick hub. should also be retrofit able to current gen dt hubs.

Yeah true. At least Actofive appears to have a good understanding of engineering fundamentals. I like that brand, even if I can't afford their products.