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My take is that this will heavily favour the more factory teams. And make it waaaay harder for the Privateer/wildhorse's to get a successful weekend in. The bigger teams having to have 2 identical bikes per rider incase of a catastrophic equipment failure is just not something a guy living out his van will be able to achieve. Even Cabirou said she didn't eat the whole day because of the tight schedule - so I don't see how a privateer is going to find time to eat, fix bike issues, never mind getting time in on a trainer. Dont get...

Looks to be a standard Mazza as far as tread goes. Last summer there was a vittoria rep and a sponsored rider at some eastern states cup races running Mazzas that had the same red hot patches. Kinda got the run around when I asked about them but can assume it’s just some slightly stickier rubber and maybe a bit of extra flat protection (for what it’s worth their enduro casing was pretty bulletproof to begin with compared to doubledown or supergravity) looks like every tire brand was having trouble keeping air in every riders tires at Lenzerheide.

Hmmm, looks like a proto Rock Shox Sid flight attendant on Nino's Scott.

Considering the state of the world post-covid, I would be surprised if there WASN'T production issues. It's going to be years before we see consistent "normal" production cycles. It wouldn't be a bad thing if they let more of their athletes get a few events under their belts and report back before doing a full launch

It definitely IS vittoria, they did a nice closeup of the branding when Hugo Frixtalon finished with a puncture.

It really depends on where the flex occurs, it could effectively be a 6-bar with the correct flex. Yeah, it does show it, yeah, it's obvious where the links rotate (counter rotating), I was interested in seeing some more travel happen to maybe see any inflection points in the movement. If I understand it correctly, Yeti's Switch Infinity, Ghost's dual short link, system, modern DW link layouts (four-bar), Yeti's 6-bar layout and maybe some more achieve good antisquat by extending the chainstay around the sag area, then through the inflection (one of the links starts moving in the opposite direction)...

One thing to note, bar height relative to the seat being... relative is somewhat obvious. Like @TheSuspensionLabNZ mentions, it's dependant on the length of the limbs, body, etc. Another, more important plot twist... What are you trying to optimise bar height for? Talking about enduro/trail bikes, is it for pedalling? Then the bike sagged front and back is relevant. Which will change going uphill again. If you're trying to adjust it for descending, it's a whole other ball game again. I have a very long reach bike and have lately found I have issues leaning it into turns with a...

I don’t know what is going on… Word on the street is GX Transmission was supposed to be released last week, but clearly it wasn’t. I know that embargo is holding up a couple of bike model releases.

UCI says the * asterisk signifies "Under 23."

Thanks for asking, I was wondering the same thing. Oh, and ANNA NEWKIRK TOP 10!!!

So you're saying I should read the news articles I comment on?

WC over and the boxxer / vivid still not relesed. I wonder if they have some production issues?

Inline shock, non-high pivot, and the Pike rule out a new Optic for me, as all signs I've heard point to it being even more aggressive with an high- or mid-pivot+idler design. It's a little hard to make out the downtube and DT/BB junction area, but from what I can tell they certainly look pretty chunky, so I'm going with a new Fluid VLT (especially considering that the Fluid was recently overhauled).

Sight would have a Piggyback Air Shock and a lyrik/36. The bike in the image has a pike and an inline shock so thinking it's more likely the new optic.

Maxxis DHRll by the looks of this…

New maxxis pattern spotted on Brendogs instagram. Looks like it bridges a gap between the shorty and assegai maybe? More spaced out and looks taller than assegai.

Bit going on