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That’ll be the Stumpy. Fair play to Specialized for keeping it out of sight so well

I have an unreleased 140/150mm bike in the shop that comes stock with a Fox 36 and Mavens type build kit with a completely new inline fox shock with the bike manufacturers logo on it and a HUGE air can. It's very strange to see an inline shock on a build like this so I'm interested in whats going on with it. Apparently next week we'll know. It kind of looks like an RP23 with a high volume air can but 1.5x the size

Slight switch of topic… I saw the part spec. sheet for an unreleased bike, and one of the models was labeled as having “Sram s1000 Transmission”…I guess confirming mechanical Transmission to be incoming soon?

Blurp?

The launch video basically breaks every rule of modern advertising and I love it. "Don't sell the steak, sell the sizzle." "Don't talk about the product." "Customers don't care about specs, they care about experiences." It's just homie talking about the hub specs for 3 minutes, instead of campfire sunset B-roll and talking about the meaning of life with Christopher Walken. So much BS in the marketplace that they're able to be distinct by just being honest engineers who make better products. The narrator looks and sounds like he may have been the engineer who designed it (my brother's an...

These look great. Also, best product launch video I've ever seen. No bullshit.

And all this time I thought it was just me blowing up rear hubs! Glad to know I’m not alone. I recently built up two sets of wheels with DT 350s and they’ve been great so far 🤞 Speaking of hubs, just got an email from OneUp announcing their new hubs. They look pretty promising and I’ve had good experiences with many of their products.

Ask a group of heavier, smashier riders about your assertion that the shock yoke thing is overblown. There's this funny category of parts that are perfectly reliable, even exceptionally so, for most riders, but flip into guaranteed issues above a certain weight and smashiness factor. Carbon cranks, long-travel single-crown CSUs and high engagement hubs from the likes of I-9 and King are other examples of this phenomenon.

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/interview-specializeds-mtb-product-team-o… The new Stumpjumper?

Digging up an old post, but I've been running 612 calipers (the original prototype Trickstuff-looking ones, not the cybertruck-looking ones that you can now get) with Trickstuff DRT levers for more than a year. Very short lever throw, power very close to the Maximas I have on the other bike, but with a much better lever feel. The prototypes have at least one drawback, can't fit a rotor bigger than 2.15-2.2mm (2.3 fits, but rubs constantly until the pads are worn down a bit), while the new ones are designed with a 2.3mm rotor in mind. Had a problem of...

Made some progress with the Hayes Dominion excessive dead throw issue! For anyone with who's interested, here's the fix : 1. Remove the lever - two torx screws top and bottom, then wiggle it out. 2. Loosen the small grub screw (green arrow). 3. Tighten the ball-head screw as far as you can without it rubbing (red arrow) 4. Tighten the grub screw again and reinstall. Doing this reduced the dead throw in the lever by 12mm. Still slightly more throw than my Codes, but massively improved. I suspect mine were set up wrong from the factory and the ball-head...

Currently the only new things in the brake setup on the bike are the A4 calipers, pads, and the NSB adapter. Everything else are the previous SRAM bits. It's been working great for the past 8 or 9 months. I'm only replacing the rear line because the outer sheath got torn away a bit by another bike's flat pedal pin. Otherwise I'd keep it this way as there have been no other issues. For the replacement line its some long line I picked up from Ali express a while back. Used it for another bike's hydraulics and it held. The...

New XC whip from Scott, or just new paint?

I really like the current AXS post head setup. When I service my AXS seatposts, I know that when I put the saddle back on, they will be at exactly the same angle that they were at before I removed the saddle.

it's not racist, they've just been dumb copying trickstuff, if they just came out with their own shape it would've been amazing, but of course nobody would talk about them or even buy them

SRAM has had webinars on it. The product is being sent to shops. It was supposed to be launched in the fall with the new Specialized UDH Crux. Seems like they have abandoned the typical embargo because it's being shown everywhere. Shimano has DI2 XTR and DI2 1x GRX dropping as well. Great time to be a consumer of bikes and components.