skwattypotty

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

6/4/2026 8:17am

I will probably get flamed for this, and will offer the caveat that I have only been skimming this page, but I feel like these bikes are great propositions and are in my eyes cool bikes because they’re made to be cheap and practical workhorses for younger demographics that don’t have as much disposable income and want a playful park bike that they can maintain themselves. Maybe I’m just haven’t been following the thread well enough, but I don’t see why the ebike bit is necessary to explain the appeal. Not everyone can afford bougie boutique racing machines, or ebikes...

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

6/4/2026 8:16am

Extremely hot take in the bad way lol. Marin makes awesome bikes, I regularly check them out. Transition as well, albeit a little spendier but also more dialed (imo). The only reason I don’t buy either is because I already own a 6 year old Norco that has given me zero reasons to spend money on a new bike,

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jma853 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

6/3/2026 5:29am

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

5/29/2026 9:34am

I bet there's a link between the GoPro's decline and the soul crushing boredom of all the videos that our buddies made us watch.

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

5/27/2026 6:36am

It's good to be prepared for situations like these.

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

5/27/2026 6:36am

Have not noticed any significant drag on my OneUp hubs but keeping that in the back pocket as an excuse the next time I'm last up the climb on a group ride.

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bicycle019 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

5/26/2026 12:31pm

I remember hearing that OneUp is going to be the MTB wheel brand, Reserve the gravel/road brand. OneUp already has hubs in their lineup.

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skwattypotty Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

5/26/2026 12:09pm

Sure looks like it. Seems a little weird for PON to be backing this when their existing wheel brand (Reserve) seems to have made huge headway in the in both aftermarket and OE spec in the last few years. Maybe the One Up wheels are supposed to be a more budget oriented product?

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

5/26/2026 7:25am

Not in NA Seth. Margin varies product to product, including within a model line of bikes. It's true that the bigger your order/booking, the more discount you get, but you might get 35% on an entry level hardtail and 18% on a top of the line ride.

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

5/20/2026 12:42pm

This seems completely unnecessary though. Financing and leasing cars makes sense because they are necessary in most of western society, but blingy brand new mountain bikes are not. You can have almost as much fun and exercise on a $700 marketplace hardail as a $12,000 ebike. Financing toys just seems like a bad idea, yet a ton of people already do it for SXS, boats, and motorcycles. Nice bikes are cool, but going into debt or leasing something because you need to keep up with Joe Shmo next door who has a Mercedes Sprinter van and pivot ebike with titanium...

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

5/19/2026 8:10am

Niner shutting shop shouldn't surprise anyone. They haven't done anything relevant in near a decade. Geo and aesthetics for their full sus platforms are very much off the back. That they lasted as long as they did was always a wonder to me.

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

5/18/2026 7:38am

99.5% of people looking for a GT or SC would have absolutely no fucking clue what Pon is lol. GT disappeared because all they had was their heritage, and that's not enough to carry a brand indefinitely as they pumped out mostly unappealing bikes year after year. I personally don't know anyone that considered buying one in recent memory. I had a GT bmx in 2006 and really liked it, so when I got properly into mountain biking I always looked at GT. Other options were always better. I stopped looking at them years ago. If GT was successful then...

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

5/15/2026 9:19am

some would say bikes shouldn’t have motors either but here we are.

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

5/15/2026 6:50am

I was thinking the other day about how disappointing the Nomad update was and how that translates to the bike industry still being screwed because serial buyers of bikes and frames (like us here) are just not excited to drop $3,500+ on any of these new frames. Combine this with the sheer amount of interesting bikes/frames in the back catalog that I’d love to try and are dirt cheap used: High pivot Optic, Range, Dreadnaught/Druid, Enduro, Tyee, Spindrift, Spur V1, SB165, Meta V5, Revel, HD6. Maybe it’s just the season of life I’m in after buying a new frame every...

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

5/12/2026 12:57pm

Long time lurker, first time poster here. For some background I’m an aerospace composites engineer and spent several years in Advanced Product Development with an emphasis on environmentally friendly materials. There’s so much to get into on this topic and if folks are interested I’d love to start a dedicated thread on materials and environmental impacts. The TLDR is, carbon fiber as a green product on its own is a fallacy. The raw fiber production may result in a certain level of carbon sequestering, but the process is still so energy intensive I wouldn’t call it an environmental positive. As...

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

5/11/2026 10:22am

Honestly this is kinda funny to hear. I feel a kinship with other countries who's domestic automakers wield immense political power, and use it to exclusively enrich themselves at the cost of the common citizen.

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

5/11/2026 5:58am

"To what extent to you agree with the following statements? thermoplastic carbon mountain bikes fit well with the way i go out and come home in my daily life"

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