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smelly Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
7/21/2026 7:13am $381? This is for blinglespeeds, not singlespeeds.
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smelly Added a reply to The Ultimate Spectator MTB Race Format?
7/8/2026 5:16am Spectator friendly is irrelevant. Bicycle ballet is as spectator friendly as it gets - even more than BMX or slalom, and 3/4 of you are going to google it to see what it is. The Tour de France is as spectator unfriendly as it gets and thousands flock to it, in hopes of spending 7 seconds watching the racers whizz...
smelly Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
7/6/2026 6:23am Not a rumors and speculation but team dynamics. Finn and Jordan having their best seasons in years whilst Loic is out. What does it mean?
smelly Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/30/2026 3:54pm I typically use the climb switch once per ride. I like to turn it on halfway up the climb when I remember I have it and might as well use it. I tend to turn it off halfway down the descent when I’m puzzling over why my suspension isn’t working. I suspect I am not in the minority.
smelly Added a reply to East coast “downcountry” loop reccomendation
6/26/2026 7:50pm Depends how much you want to travel. Ascutney, Waterbury, kingdom trails, and Stowe Vermont. Are all worth traveling to. As is Conway NH. Western Massachusetts has Thunder mtn bike park in charlemont. Batchelor street and earls trails in Amherst/granby. Pittsfield state forest and Lenox. Ludlow.
smelly Added a reply to Ridewrap vs. Dyedbro, VHS vs. SHUSH
6/25/2026 7:01pm You sound like you’re on drugs, man.
smelly Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
6/11/2026 7:09pm Aventon is cool in my book. Sponsoring Tippie and Angel and making a quality, reasonably priced ebike. Sounds better than one more super posh boutique brand making a product that costs five figures.
smelly Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/3/2026 9:55am Wow that’s a weird brake/shifter angle. Cool looking bike, though it’s not clear to me why anyone needs a bike to make trails even easier than they already are in this era of shitty flow trails.
smelly Added a comment about press release Galfer Revolutionizes MTB Braking With The New Disc Shark® EVO
5/6/2026 5:11pm
I assume €125 is the revolutionary part?
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smelly Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
4/29/2026 7:26am Gonna be a dick and point out that if you run smaller than a 32t, you don’t need a power meter, you need a gym. Edit: it’s not my opinion, just an uncomfortable matter of fact for why they don’t make power meters for 30t rings. I’m sure there are exceptions, like people riding fully loaded 87lb touring bikes who...
smelly Added a reply to 30.5 VS 32s- People actually on board… Duke it out
4/26/2026 4:32am I was an early adopter of 29. Will not be adopting 32, except maybe a gravel bike. Took about 15 years for geometry to get properly sorted on 29. It’ll go a bit faster this time, so the real question, if these take off, is what’s going to happen in 2035-2040? Will 26 return or are we staring down 36?
sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Race Talk
4/24/2026 7:12pm
in needles' podcast (posted here a couple days ago), pardal thinks it'll be close to 3 minutes. so not super short.
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smelly Added a reply to 2026 Race Talk
4/24/2026 7:12pm Dang then those woods sections are going to be slow and tricky. I like it. I was just guessing based on the video being 6 minutes and half of it being no riding and the riders pace being slow. Big fan of the lower speed technical tracks.
smelly Added a reply to 2026 Race Talk
4/24/2026 4:20pm Looks cool - raw, old school, homegrown feel to it. those woods sections will turn into sniper rock gardens and clever taping will make for tricky corners. Suspect this will be a sub 2 minute course though, and some of those jumps may need to be embigened. But it’s just nice seeing something new.
Evil96 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
4/15/2026 4:51am
Why not get a Madrone instead of a bunch derailleurs that require a lot of maintainance and not even working that well spending the same if not more for something much weaker, soft
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smelly Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
4/7/2026 11:21am Looking at the website a “400wh motor powers big rides” Man, I got a different definition of big ride than Transition.
smelly Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
4/7/2026 5:04am Top tube humps are a death knell
smelly Added a reply to Tire inserts - do you run them?
4/5/2026 5:08am Running rear tubolight inserts on all bikes. But I mostly ride a hardtail and short travel bike with exo tires. Only the eeb has DD/dh tires How you guys are toting around heavy casing tires on trail rides is beyond me. I’d rather go to the gym, or play monopoly, or have a colonoscopy. Lordy heavy tires suck to ride...
smelly Added a reply to 32-inch Wheels and Mountain Bikes
3/26/2026 7:40am A lot of this talk sounds like the old adage that the difference between theory and reality is that in theory there’s no difference between theory and reality. But in reality there is. Bring ‘em on. I don’t see myself buying one, the LAST thing my local trails need is a way to make them easier. But who cares if...
smelly Added a reply to Concussion
3/23/2026 4:06pm You wouldn’t. Observers would have to tell you what happened. The red flags pertain to events during and immediately after the trauma, so it would be based on eyewitness report.