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Poor bike maintenance sucks when it happens to you.

I'm going to say the bolts were loose and once 4 of them were out the 2 remaining tabs had o chance. Going by the way those CPS washers have been installed (under the mount instead of the calliper) I don't have a lot of faith that anything was mounted correctly

Thank you for the upcoming nightmares. I will say bolts loosening on ebikes is a pain, I need to toque check my rear end after every ride, between the pivot bolts and the rear axle you need to over torque everything to make through a big ride.

There is no Dana

Only Zuul.

yes but there are strict rules regarding the dimensions of the pot, and the butter is subject to WADA testing

I always defer to this DC Rainmaker site. He has the some of the best info I have found regarding sports watches and comparing features.

Do they allow for pots of boiling water and melted butter?

International Crustacean Union?

Can you please take your aerobatic hydrodynamic discussion over to the roadie forums?

Are front and rear lobsters even allowed in the UCI rulebook? This could be a major aero advantage..

I didn't say it's not more aerodynamic. What I insued is that going for or defending the existence of through headset routing because of aerodynamics is, not sorry to say this, idiotic on a mountain bike. As in the gains are SOOOO marginal compared to easy fixes on so many other areas it makes ZERO sense to do it purely for aero gains. And the team mechanics will love them too. So there is no practical reason to go for internal routing, just vanity. On a mountain bike. Also, when it comes to road bikes and aero... Yeah, it matters...

sounds very interesting regarding the Fuel EX my guess is the new Yeti race enduro will have 160 travel outback.

yes... I saw the new Fuel EX in person a few weeks ago. All I can say is its totally different ascetically than anything T has ever produced before. 150mm 36 up front, 140mm Float X out back. Internal frame storage and ABP still there. Longer reach, lower top tube/stand over. The 9.9 will have an "AXS" build and an "AXS Flight Attendant" build to suit the new rockshox lines. As far as the Yeti's go, the race teams are using over stroked 150's that get 155/156 rear travel. So I would suspect the new bike to be a "SB155"

I've done the science, lobster wins

Helmet strap, helmet itself (the peak), jersey, shorts, kneepads, even the shoelaces (if applicable) the forks shape, knobbly tyres, low rims, brake calipers, etc. And of course riding position. I picked off quite a few people furiously pedalling in both Megavalanches I did just tucking and chilling on flat-ish straight gravel roads. Tuck is king.

The aero gain of a headset routed cable salad is negated by the number plate in a race (where aero actually matters).

It was more of a joke, no worries. To me the most important thing in my bike is the set it and forget it part of it. I don't fiddle with anything, I take it off the wall rack and go for the a ride and ride. I don't want to extract 5 % more performance from it, I want the break from the rest of the things in life and just have fun riding it.

It would for sure, right up until you had to do an oil change every 500 miles, or have tires made for it (you’re not buying off TireRack.com for this)….I love all forms of Motorsport, and cycling, hell boats too, but a race rig, designed for racing is not a daily drive rig….We all have to get over what so and so races, or rides, or what ever. I raced motoX for years, at what I believed to be a fairly high level. Had a chance to spend a weekend with a first class moto team, and realized my world...