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this is a few days old, but crc/wiggle went UK-only for purchases. has to be great news for u.s.-based retailers but possibly a sting for brands that sold a lot internationally through crc https://road.cc/content/news/wiggle-crc-ditches-international-sites-foc…

Electric power steering motors for example have dual windings so even if one of the two fails, the other can still power the steering. The car of course throws a catastrophic error, probably even goes into limp mode and forces the driver to stop ASAP to prevent any further issues. The amount of bureaucratic systems in place to develop these kinds of things in automotive fields would probably be quite surprising to many people, on the other hand there are a ton of products in the bike industry where it's really questionable if even the basic FMEA was made at...

We are all assuming a lot here and it will take some time to find out what really is going on, if there really were chemistry issues with the younger stars and what not. I am still curious about the Kathy/Rob/Steve/Greg dynamics and IF it affected things and mayb how. But it's not my business. On the other hand, as passionate fans we are obviously interested in all of this. Greg is portrayed as a picky man these days, most of this perception coming from those Fox videos. But don't forget that Greg has been around for long before that...

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/announcements/2023/11/14/norco-adds-key… Norco has a new head of brand as of a few weeks ago. A quick search shows she is from South Africa. Would be a hell of a coincidence.

I may be alone in this but I see a big silver lining here. Greg moving on from Syndicate means he's still going to race, which of course I love seeing.

Mr. "listen guy" youve been spittin more hot fire then Dylan since you missed your start gate in Mammoth. At least you're second on the podium to mister I know everything but don't spill the deets.

Article up on the other site now about their prototype. Consider yourself vindicated.

Whatever other features it has i just want to see an extra $1000 added at the point of sale, $500 to the purchaser’s local trails and $500 to the eventual disposal of the worn parts and environmental remediation. ‘Internalize externalities.’

Thats cool stuff. Man, I hate that they had to go. This is just more evidence of what cool guys/gals ran that place. Their modular frame design wasn't perfect, but man for a first gen product their bikes rode really well.

The thing is you're not making it fun. As mentioned above....in the past reamtumors and this thread had drawings, cliffhangers, jokes, puzzles and falsehoods. You're in fact adding nothing intellectual, insightful or entertaining. Child's play. But again, you know and we don't. You must sleep so good at night.

you don‘t seem to get it! it‘s not that no one is giving solid info, would love to have puzzles to figure out like the years prior. it‘s the repeating „i know more than you but not gonna tell, lalala…“ from ghost that‘s annoying a lot of people in here. if you scroll back at least a couple pages you‘ll see that people are still speculating and no one‘s crying that he want‘s it all now! but hey, some people these days can‘t even read a couple of pages now back to rumors/speculation ✌️

Thanks for reminding me... On our Adidas Eyeware road trip to Canada we were being guided on the North Shore by Peter Stay Smith of Norco and Jay Hoots and met a fourteen year old Geoff Gulevich riding an Ellsworth Joker with the most clapped out Boxers that I've ever seen. I'm surprised that he had any front brakes with the amount of oil spewing out the seals.

It seems to me that there's a lack of proper journalism in mountain biking i.e. who's asking ESO, Discovery etc the difficult questions given what Discovery's investment was supposed to bring to EWS.

I had a pic of me in MBUK 20+ years ago. They got my name wrong. And called me the "tubby kid on the Turner"

Greetings, Washed up ex Pro Motocoss Racer and Skatebarder from Ventura Ca 🤣🤣🤣