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Those tires honestly do look pretty sweet. I was trying very hard to get the wild enduro's but the front sticky was out of stock everywhere and I'm stupid and want to be matchy matchyfront to back. I looked at the specilized tires but after weeks of internal struggle I ended up with DHR/DHF again. I forget how damn good that combo is until I get a fresh set and think how dumb I would be to want to stray from that. This is all a completely useless point to what I'm getting at though. I have been surprised that...

Was thinking the same thing, if Spesh really has a competitive race tire that seems like a big deal (and just anecdotally some of my faster, shreddier friends have been riding the new T9 AND T7 trail and enduro tires and have been impressed).

Someone ditched the Sharpie for the actual tyres they’re meant to have? Isn’t this the biggest MTB news story of the century so far?

all correct I think. My new bike is 1336mm wheelbase It's a whole 106mm longer than my last bike. The new one is way less fatiguing, you simply stand up over the bottom bracket and look where you want to go. Fore and aft stability is ridiculous. Yes, it's a boat in tight switchbacks, you just have to throw it in a bit more aggressive. For me as an intermediate rider its been fantastic. For a pro, I don't think there is a huge gain. Particularly in EWS.

Just by looking at yesterday's photos from Lourdes, it does look like Loic and Finn finally ditched their old reliable sharpied DHR II's and went for the new Cannibals.

Ohlins Electronic DH fork on Bruni's bike?

rad, thanks roots rider! also plenty of bike sleuthing to be done in the lourdes slowmo vid from today https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJsM-jJQrqc

@sspomer @bigbird https://www.pinkbike.com/news/bike-check-finn-iles-custom-specialized-d… I played around on linkage a bit to see the differences in the link. In last years bike check, linked, they comment on it being more progressive. While this is true, it's done in a slightly different way than you'd normally see. Generally, when the comment of "more progressive" is made, the starting leverage rate is higher, and the ending leverage rate is generally the same, or slightly lower. This is the case with most of Cascade's linkages. This requires a higher spring rate to actually make more force at the end of travel. So, in the...

Nah, not really, I mentioned right after the first pics came out that making it like this would make all the sense in the world... Looks chonky but it might be possible to make the link slimmer and lighter (in the thickness department) this way than the way it was originally.

Chonkers

That didn't take long... Re reach, X fore-aft movement on a longer reach bike (which usually means a longer wheelbase bike as well) will give you less of an effect on either the front or rear wheel. So that means you can be sloppier with your inputs and of course more precise with them on a shorter reach frame. With a longer reach (longer wheelbase) you also get additional stability at higher speeds, which makes it more comfortable mentally, enabling 'lesser' riders to go faster. The negative is of course the tighter stuff, where long bikes ARE cumbersome (riding a...

Intense prototypes already running an alternative rocker link....