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Wrong side, looks to be an HTO like most air shocks have.

Oh woah another generic catalogue shock pump with a sticker on it.

"The same force applied to the end of it" is where it gets tricky. In an extreme example, if you swap out 175 cranks for 155s, the first thing you have to do is raise your saddle 20mm to maintain proper pedaling position. That means at the top of the stroke as you begin to apply power, the pedal spindle is about 40mm further away from your hip joint, a very noticeable biomechanical advantage. At the 3 o'clock position, the spindle is 20mm closer to the vertical plain of the hip joint, similar to having a more forward seat position...

When I raced Collegiate cycling in the mid-2000s, you could qualify for Nationals for any discipline in mountain biking (DH, Slalom, Short Track, XC) by having enough points regardless of which type of race they came from. So you could conceivably score all your points from your conference races and a conference championship in XC, qualify for nationals, then decide you want to race DH at Nationals. We had a fairly stacked conference, with several Varsity (scholarship schools) so people that really wanted to make it to Nationals in DH would often race all 4 disciplines to try and maximize...

I suspect doing this as a customer instead of a sponsored rider would probably void your warranty?

The stiffy (anyone remember that classic apirl fools). Yeah, I could see it becoming more common but probably not universal. A hardtail isn't better for every short track course. I'm not certain, but I believe that rule was put in place to make it easier for smaller teams and privateers logistically. If they ban it, then people will just make rigid units that look like a shock. A mock shock if you like. Edit: for all we know, many teams might already be using a mock shock. Maybe mock bearings too.

https://escapecollective.cc/cervelo-turned-a-full-suspension-bike-into-… So in the short track race of last weekend's XC World Cup in Nove Mesto, one of the Jumbo Visma guys was running his new Cervelo full-suspension bike with an interesting modification. The bike is a linkage-driven single pivot layout with flex-stays (as most XC bikes tend to be these days), but instead of the regular shock linkage and rear shock, the bike was equipped with a solid aluminium strut that replaced the shock and shock linkage - effectively turning the bike into a hardtail. The background to this might be that in 20-minute XCC short track events, the...

Keep in mind most US prices are with no VAT while 99% of the prices displayed in Europe as VAT included.

Top bike is definitely a new Giant of some sort, seat tube shape is very different to anything they make at the moment, and the top tube looks almost flat. New Trance X 29 perhaps?

But why? I love that it just remains the same. There's really enough new stuff being released for the sake of newness

I've done about 12,000km's over the last 4 years on Shimano E-bikes.(boths E8000 and EP8) Had one motor "failure" and it didn't really fail, it was just a bit noisier than normal so they swapped it out no problems. Battery capacity (health) does dwindle slightly over the years, you can mitigate it by never storing the battery full or flat (in the middle is perfect) and keep it in a room that isn't freezing cold or boiling hot, literally common sense stuff. I'd say they are reliable from my experience.

Let me help you rephrase that: "Check out that groupset that has been the benchmark in its category for the last 10 years".

You’re not wrong! It’s just funny how that looks like a spy photo from 2014. They could at least change the font…?

The rules say you have to use the same bike but afaik they don't define at which point it becomes a different bike. (For EDR the fork, rims and front and rear triangle of the bike get stickered and you take a 5-minute penalty if you swap them out). I'm all for pushing the rules like this, just don't know how the UCI is gonna react (and if it's even the UCI or ESO who makes the call in this case).

I forgot the new Push got a hefty price jump, I think the old one was around $1300 or so, which was certainly closer (now that I'm thinking about it, it seems like the Storia is actually somewhat of a bargain now but that's a discussion for elsewhere).

Trek Slash is going to be a high pivot this year.