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It will be a alloy Horst Link bike with vertikal shock mount. You already can see the blurred bike on the Youtube Channel from Mark Diekmann. On the top tube stays the name „Scrub“.

While Loic and Finn's bikes are indeed oddly glued to the ground, to say that Fox and RS can only offer clicky adjustments is just not true. Fox offers multiple tune options on rear shocks to athletes and custom ones to the top athletes (most notably Greg). RS does the same.

That silver link is much shorter than I was previously thinking. This is likely way more progressive than the real deal but I updated my older guess to shorten the 'pull' link and move the linkage pivot to concentric with the BB (which to me is the only option that makes sense given the super short link). I did this in a hurry so it's not very accurate even to that photo, but I found it interesting more as a proof of concept since this general shape of the leverage curve is considered 'desirable' by lots of people but hasn't...

DHSE race replay from #6 - they've crushed it so hard this year w/ the coverage!

On the same topic of fast kids who will be at world cup age next year, keep an eye out for tyler waite and oli clark from nz. Both have done incredibly well in the New Zealand dh scene often challenging or beating times of elite riders. Tyler also managed a clean sweep in pump track, dual slalom and dh at crankworx cairns for u17. They’re gonna have a significant impact on the world cup junior scene most likely

Both Jesse Melamed and Rhys Verner on red Zebs

you vital super sleuths have just won the MTB tech rumors world championships with this bolt. Don't Post to Vital t-shirts coming soon.

From the other site. Someone at Sram is having a chuckle

Richie Rude no longer has the Stars and Stripes jersey! Asa Vermette took the title at the age of 16!!! This kid is gonna be insane! He doesn’t even race enduro as his primary discipline!

All this flex stay talk has me wishing for some actual new product spy shots

Some next level tinfoil hat action with the arrows.

Seen at the bike festival in riva del garda: nicolai nucleon 16 with classic derailleur, sadly with hadset cable routing...but given the huge customization possibilities of nicolai may an external or internal cable routing will be possible

New GX cranks on Ben Cathros story - being built up onto Santa Cruz’s going for sale, meaning we can’t be far off the GX launch

Sharpie, the worst tool for keeping MTB secrets. Looks like the new caliper is MAVAN or NAVAN.