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Slavid666 Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/19/2025 12:28pm Just dont tell my wife, she thinks I have CRS, little does she know its only related to house chores...
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Slavid666 Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/19/2025 8:50am I don't want to upset the vital overloards and post the direct link 
but its from the interview of spec moving their MTB Product team to Auburn.
but its from the interview of spec moving their MTB Product team to Auburn.
boozed Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/19/2025 8:30am
Bloody hell everything is going to be a decapod crustacean before this is over, isn't it?
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Slavid666 Added a reply to Tire chat (nerds only)
6/18/2025 10:08pm Don’t believe so, but I’ll try to confirm, I have more tires in my garage than I could probably ever ride in the next few years, might be worth hacking a few up to measure durometer across the knob layer… I have one or two of the softs and a few pairs of the SS dh casing. This just a...
TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/18/2025 6:30pm
BREAKING NEWS: Maxxis MTB Division releases 10,000th tread pattern, earns commemorative wrist watch from corporate headquarters in Cheng Shin to mark event:
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Glacial Pace Liked a reply to forum topic Tire chat (nerds only)
6/18/2025 6:18pm
picture of the tread pattern for anyone who is too lazy to click the link.
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ricksticks Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/18/2025 9:59am
Dude really said "I hate when things are colors"
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Slavid666 Added a reply to Tire chat (nerds only)
6/18/2025 9:56am The trail casing has been untouched since either 22 or 23. They are much burlier than before. I can get away with riding those on my trail bike if I am careful, I cant say the same about EXO+. I've been told, from a pretty reliable source, that the T9 is the same across all the tires. What makes the...
Slavid666 Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
6/17/2025 8:31am Same here, but the levers have been the pain point for me, the seals have started to drag so much that the MC piston spring wont return the mc piston and lever all the way. Granted it only happens after the bike has sat for a few hours and you can pump them quickly to get the seal to soften...
Slavid666 Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/17/2025 8:27am Those frames were made of paper, that's why that bike weighed 30lbs, I've seen more of those frames cracked on the downtube at the BB junction than any other frame ever, Yeti was good with the warranty but that was by far from a "burly" bike. My 2014 slash weights 30lbs, thankfully its carbon, as its been repaired more times...
Slavid666 Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
6/16/2025 10:53pm After going back and fourth for the last month I decided to pull the trigger on some T4V4’s to replace the Radic Kaha’s that I’ve been running for the last year. I figured my purchase should trigger some event that causes hope to release the new gravity brake causing me to have buyers remorse over the purchase for not waiting...
Slavid666 Added a reply to Tire chat (nerds only)
6/11/2025 3:56pm I've heard that some like the extra compliance of the newer profile, but I was never against the unions, they were always well damped feeling rims. However, given the option of offset spoke holes or not I will always take offset drilling above most else. Even the 2mm of the unions allows for almost a 10% gain in spoke tension...
mfoga Liked a reply to forum topic E-MTBs That Are Also E-Motos - What's Going to Happen?
6/11/2025 12:37pm
I don’t see the hate for responsible use but that’s not what happens a lot. Having some dude run up on you at 20mph on a climb trying to push past you because they are a holes deserves all the hate. Look at skypark they had to add signs all over place because there were problems and even added a climb for e-bikes but most refuse to use it because it’s harder and eats up battery. There are plenty of reasons to hate even the class 1 but it’s not the bike it’s the people who ride them.
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Slavid666 Added a reply to Tire chat (nerds only)
6/11/2025 12:32pm Yeah, after last season i've been thinking about it alot, but also debating about build a set of WAO unions. Been missing the feel of carbon rims on my bigger bike.
ebruner Liked a reply to forum topic Tire chat (nerds only)
6/11/2025 12:26pm
Good feedback everyone. I do agree that DD's feel nice, but the sidewall support is more or less the same as EXO+. I'm relieved to find out I'm not crazy. I'm going to continue trying out the DD's with inserts for my ebike, and see if I can get through the year on the reserve AL/HD hoop that I have on it without murdering it. I typically murder 1 ex511/reserve AL-HD per year, so that wouldn't be pretty standard. I think it's time to bite the bullet and just go to DH casing rear tires for my enduro bike and...
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SRAM and Shimano engage in price fixing Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/10/2025 1:18pm
There wasn't room to include "..., planned obsolescence, and anti-consumer duopolistic practices that treat bike companies less like frame designers and more like component integrators."
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Slavid666 Added a reply to Tire chat (nerds only)
6/10/2025 8:32am 100%, Not a fan of the feeling of inserts and even still, don't trust that its the magic bullet to saving my rims. On my enduro bike I can't run anything less than DH casing tires, speeds are too much for anything less unless I want to be replacing rims regularly, DT EX511's. I have a prior gen SJEvo that...
Slavid666 Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
6/4/2025 9:14am A4's have 20% more hydraulic leverage compared to saints. Not saying that directly equates to 20% more power but it is a burlier brake. FWIW I never found either of the two hayes pad compounds to be that great. Been running sinter's green pad and it puts my A4 equal with the power of my Radic Kaha's with Trickstuff Power+...
Slavid666 Added a reply to Tire chat (nerds only)
6/2/2025 1:20pm They have been racing on prototype cannibals for a few seasons now. From what I have been told its just small tweaks to the casing as well as the compound. They, like Schwalbe have a, cold weather specific T9 compound, I wouldn't be surprised if they have some other FRO single run compounds as well. I'm a little over a...