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jeff.brines Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/7/2026 9:19am
Imagine the bike industry could only grow on the cash it generated. No IPOs, no private equity, no bank debt. I'd bet we’d still be riding rigid forks and 3x drivetrains. All of the shit that makes our bikes so good today needed risk capital years before they paid off. Fox and SRAM could never have challenged the incumbents as startups and if founders had no way to exit, brands would die when the founder got tired. Capital has built this industry in very concrete ways, some of which I listed above. Capital allocation is how the system makes decisions...
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bulletbass man Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/1/2026 1:07am
Sorry to veer back into politics. The fact that Chinese brands are now offering support, making returns easy for flawed products, offering legitimate warranties, etc is going to be the hardest thing for western companies to compete with. Over the course of my lifetime I and pretty much everyone I know has watched western companies backtrack what they offer the consumer. And our government roll back all sorts of consumer protections and make little attempt to hold bad actors accountable. And the bad actors are the biggest banks and companies in the nation. The entire philosophy of modern western capitalism...
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AgrAde Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
11/1/2026 1:06am
You're on the internet. There are losers on the internet. There's a certain base level of negativity from that part of the population that you've just got to laugh at and ignore.
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hogfly Liked a reply to forum topic Whats the cheapest place to live and mountain bike
10/26/2026 3:47am
Oaxaca is definitely cheap and has amazing riding. As another poster pointed out, DIY riding might present some difficulties there. The high altitude trails are best accessed via a shuttle (or e-bike). They're also managed/protected by the local village councils. While I didn't know EXACTLY what was happening, we ran into a crew from the local village who were up fighting a fire while on a ride. They questioned our guide quite a bit, but he knew them. Our guide gave them a couple of beers out of his backpack, and we were on our way. The guide alluded to...
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Eoin Liked a reply to forum topic Whats the cheapest place to live and mountain bike
10/26/2026 2:55am
Liguria is definitely up there as has been mentioned, a big part of that would be the quality of the food for almost nothing. I still love that Paul Aston announced buying his farm (house + barn + land) for less than "3 Sworks bikes". An option I haven't seen mentioned is Oaxaca in Mexico, I visited but didn't bike, I believe they have great trails and the location is really nice and cheap. But anyway, I live near Nice, on the expensive coast, but I think there are better places than the ones mentioned above. Dirtbag plan: Allos "the...
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Outlawed Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
10/18/2026 2:57pm
It is (if someone from Devinci sees this, I accidently found an unlisted page, I dont know if someone oopsied so I am not going to share the link/s) Spring 2027 was the date
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Znarf Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
10/15/2026 1:25pm
As fit enduro bikers, trail bike lovers and parents with a shotgun seat the wife bought a Trek Rail and I bought a decked out Vala last year (because my wife "convinced" me, we needed that, all the cool influencer, former EWS racer moms have them). With the shotgun seat it was curious fun for a bit, until our son told us, he also wants a bike with a motor. After a couple of weeks with the emtbs we realised that something was missing. After the honeymoon-phase we rode eco-mode almost exclusively, the emtbs weren´t as fun (for us) as...
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iceman2058 Liked a reply to forum topic Red Bull Rampage 2026
10/10/2026 1:34am
Holy hangtime, Batman!
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alonzobutler Liked a reply to forum topic Red Bull Rampage 2026
10/10/2026 1:33am
I think the judges probably got it right today. That said, I found Hannah to be more fun to watch. She was riding so fast, and the way she blended control with controlled chaos was super enjoyable. Overall, it was an excellent event. Here's hoping the mens' goes just as well and that nobody dies. I watched as much of today's event live as I could swing while balancing a reasonable volume of work. However, after last year, I think I'll opt to watch the mens' event on replay just in case.
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MJT420 Liked a reply to forum topic Red Bull Rampage 2026
10/10/2026 1:32am
I think Hannah should've taken it, but obviously all the runs were great,, asides from that great event. The lines were impressive, definitely a few surprises, plus no kids begging for every piece of a riders kit at the top of their lungs. Women's Rampage has the right vibes, only hiccup I saw was the drone dusting some of the riders out before they hit a drop
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LemonadeMoney Liked a reply to forum topic Red Bull Rampage 2026
10/10/2026 1:32am
Fantastic Rampage
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Simcik Liked a reply to forum topic Red Bull Rampage 2026
10/10/2026 1:32am
The pace of the live broadcast is really impressive. The women have absolutely crushed it. Holy cow, what a contest.
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samstephens Liked a bike check 2027 Yeti LT Custom
10/9/2026 11:01am
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MateoPateo Liked a comment about bike check 2027 Yeti LT Custom
10/9/2026 11:01am
Yup!! Did you custom tune the shock to match the frame? If so, what tune please?
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Grumbly Liked a reply to forum topic E-bike talk: not tech rumor derailment
10/7/2026 9:56am
For. Real. The Vala rides like garbage with the base RockShox fork and shock. Even with rebound wide open it rode way overdamped. It bumbled down the trail fine but had zero passion. Kinda like my marriage.
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matmattmatthew Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
10/4/2026 1:58pm
That’s it, Shaft driven bikes. Shafted Purse 2028, I’m calling it now.
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Finkill Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
10/3/2026 2:00am
Switching bike/drivetrain mid-season would not be something most riders/teams would want to do. If anyone is going to give up the belt drive, they will do it next season.
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Brian_Peterson Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
10/3/2026 2:00am
Things break, but in today's internet/ social media world, that one broken frame can show up in so many places that to a casual observer it can look like a product is failing left and right and give a false narrative as to what is actually happening..
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Sherbet Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
10/3/2026 1:59am
Shop guys pretty regularly see just about any frame on earth broken, and it really doesn't often turn any of us off a brand. The forces bikes see are both pretty dynamic and pretty crazy at times, especially considering how much we expect this premium stuff to weigh. Seeing a broken V-10 doesn't make me want to avoid them, it makes me curious how fuckin' hard the rider was going. The general public does not always understand that stuff does just break. We get people in daily who tell us we couldn't pay them to ride carbon, then we grab...
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synBike Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
10/1/2026 11:53am
Part of the issue with sharing these photos is the context is completely missed and then you end up with a parade of people saying things like "Orbeas aren't safe". I had an athlete send a picture of a development frame snapped exactly like the Orbea (top tube and downtube snapped clean through) and immediately we started panicking about testing and strength issues. The rider basically said "this ones on me". He hit a tree head on so hard the handlebars were bent backwards and the bike went flying down the hill and fully snapped when it landed 10m away...
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