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Everyone keeps talking about how long travel non-assisted bikes just aren’t selling. People are buying e-bikes in that category. I wouldn’t be surprised if they aren’t in a rush to fill that enduro spot. I saw something the other day, that said last year the blur and v10 were Santa Cruz’s best selling bikes without motors. The mid to long travel segments are really going to e-bikes these days. Wouldn’t be surprised if specialized isn’t the only one going oops we forgot about our enduro bike for a few years.

Thank you! Couldn't find this chart. Very helpful.

That's a downhill casing, supersoft compound, but the Fr is "optimized for front wheel"

Trek Superepic? Toppic Evo? Convergence is real.

They used to make some really nice frames. Now it’s all made and designed so poorly. I can’t tell you how many things on the few I’ve owned that could EASILY have been improved or fixed with 5 seconds of thought. I could within 5 mins of unboxing my frame I found multiple disappointing features. It’s upsetting they charge premium prices for low grade quality. Still fun bikes if you get a discount but for full price you’re getting basically catalog frames with the lowest quality hardware. I went from a transition to a Santa Cruz (the frame cost 400...

Hopefully lighter, too! I really liked the Tallboy, but it weighed basically the same as my Hightower.

Don't know if this was mentioned. New tallboy is no longer VPP, 140 130mm

GET OUT

These are for people that KEEP bikes. The longer you own it the less it cost.

my best guess that it is a tunable cartridge of the air spring, giving the airspring negative (?) more volume, like on their shocks. You can buy "LinearXL" air cans for the super deluxe, so I assume this is the same idea. These forks should feature "air preload", whatever that is. Screenshot from new mondraker DH bike listing: Edit: This tech has been seen featured on the next gen Zeb as well.

I once sent PVD an honest question by email about a technical drawing on his website and he answered : "W hat your asking falls into the 'that's a stupid question' category. Only a terrible person would answer a stupid question." Such a nice guy

It's not a knowledge or concept problem. It's an attitude problem. PVD is TOXIC.

Ah yes, the famous Absolute Black method 😬

Rulezman, Jan Heine, PVD, Grant Peterson... cycling seems to perversely reward people with big egos, big opinions and questionable applications of scientific principles.

Speaking of syringes, this $4.50 turkey flavoring grocery store special has similar hardware/interface to the $100+ SRAM kits, gladly accepting their attachments, as pictured. No idea if it actually works for a bleeding job or if one could pull any useful vacuum with it.

Sadly, it is an ironic indication of his 😬

This guy is so far up his own ass that he prob used his bush resizing tool to make stools slide out without any friction