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It was said in an interview or podcast that Bruni was supposed to ride the prototype in the second half of the season but the collarbone break derailed the plan.

It's already the case since the French DH champs I think. It has been stated many times that Loic does not like swapping bikes mid season, he was waiting the end of the season to start testing the new rig.

"I never got along too well with Horst link bikes because they have always been too playful for me. They like to go fast, but they also like to pop up and out of corners and prefer to leave the ground much more than I do. Traction is only good when you are on the ground." That is a huge generalization. Many people have complained about many Horst-link bikes are being boring and too planted and hard to get into the air. It's not the suspension layout (horst or whatever) that you don't like, it's the specific design and intention...

Athertons dropping (soon but tbd) a 170mm bruiser that Gee's been running around in Utah on... in case someone missed it https://www.instagram.com/p/CkgbcRxriD9/?hl=en

Most PF BBs have a plastic shell. But the loads are a bit different there than with headsets.

The Canyon Spacers and cover/cap on the spectral has been a subject of annoyance for all spectral cf owners since the new model came out late 2020. the Headset is an is52, so nobody makes them.... as visible in the photo they have plastic cover and spacers, canyon then decided to use a big Thick alloy compression ring(which is fine) but it requires more torque to pull everything together so if you didnt torque it you had a lose headset - when you torqued it, it would deform the thin plastic cover and cause the headset to go loose everytime...

Well they also had the chain rubbing in the smallest gear on their e-bikes, so I think Canyon is becoming the case study of oversight lately...

I can't count how many times I've heard "Well you must really be a hard rider, you're the first person to have that issue." I can't remember which company had plastic press fit bottom bracket sleeves. It might even be Sram Dub? I'm sure those never fail.

He mentioned that the actual headset cup though, not just the spacers. I remember Ghost using these on a bunch of trail bikes a few years ago from Acros. They creaked like crazy, and a few failed in the first season. One person had their upper bearing pull through, stick sideways and jam up their steerer. I haven't seen them on a bike since so pretty sad to see it pop back up.

IIRC canyon headset spacers are plastic too. from spectral CF

Ashland Oregon!

We talked about this today on the ride. At least you don't need to bleed the brakes & stuff to raise or lower the stem on the steerer tube... Also, Scott is not the only company going plastic for these parts. A Corratec I had the 'pleasure' of getting my hands on the other day had through headset routed everything, plastic everything as well, including the top cap. Had to take the top cap to where there wasn't any more space in it as the original plastic top cap just gave way before putting any axial tension on the bearings...

I've got 3 sets of brifters at the shop new in boxes! And I guess low normal wasn't terrible, but I was more taking aim at the MTB brifters as a standard that people ran from and allowed SRAM to really find it's feet after the gripshift years.

Let's take the way back machine to the mid 2000's. Shimano has just released Low normal and STI MTB shifters. They were touted as the next big thing and the way the industry was going. The way it turned out was Shimano fucked up hard. It was terrible and no one wanted it or bought it. It literally allowed SRAM to become what it is today. Shimano was pretty salty about it that they stopped providing front derailleurs to bike company's who weren't ordering full groups, SRAMs shitty front derailleurs weren't cutting it, but people likely their shifters better. Let...

Or possibly the original turboencabulator video

Didn't even notice there are two videos until reading your comment. I must say, the over the top jargon speak doesn't really fit a brand like Scott. When Transition started doing that (the labcoats and acronyms), it was kinda funny as the brand/company is small. Scott's attempt just makes it look like a bunch of boomers trying to be cool and hip and relate to the youngsters. The result is mostly cringe.

This bike is a mechanics wet fuckin' dream! Call up shops and ask the lead mechanic how much to frame up build three 2023 Genius'...record their conflicted/hateful response. Bonus points if you run Hayes A4 brake lines (thicker). All I see is a rushed prototype of what is truly designed to be utilized in a longer travel e-bike platform (future) (with a questionably round/out of parallel BB shell, as are 90% of bike manufactures supposedly)