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Was pretty much part of the release, their team riders 'preferred' the feeling of alloy vs carbon for the compliance. of course, as far as we know, there was no carbon version to compare it to. I think we should be happy that a company like Trek is releasing these bikes now, I would absolutely love to justify buying one.

i bet this bike absolutely rips. Something i am very curious of is how does a company successfully tell its customer that this alloy bike is now their fastest/best dh bike yet, while over the past 10 years they have told their customer that you NEED carbon. i get all the factors about production for a niche market, and how carbon is mostly marketing, just interesting to completely shift away from OCLV to alloy. I have always preferred alloy bikes anyway.

He certainly Shattered the dreams of all the carbon demo fanboys.

Legend! Crazy to think he was so close to 3 more elite world championships (one as a junior!!!).

What’s the etro measurements?

With prices on these creeping up to Maxxis territory, it will be hard not to compare their performance against the best. Specialized tires used to be a good budget product, but those days are behind us. Of course, with the anticipated supply issues, Specialized can sell tires based on availability rather than price.

There is nothing wrong with full chain guides used in DH (well, by most riders not hunting milligrams in all the wrong places at least), him crashing also didn´t have anything to do with chain guide, stop chains from snapping, that´s all that is required from this not happening. And chains not snapping belongs in the same bracket as not flatting tires, it´s not going anywhere anytime soon. If anything, the chain guide did too good of a job to keep the snapped chain on the bike long enough for it to get sucked into rear wheel.

just to point out the obvious, the Butchers from a couple of years ago have nothing in common with these new ones except the basic tread pattern. I'm currently seeing really good results with the Grid Trail stuff... probably jinxed it now :-)

Hmm, looks like a huge gap going from grid gravity to grid trail, and the rear focused t7 is too light for trail riding. They seem to revamp the line every other year, but refuse to spec the right amount of rubber per application.

I have a feeling you two might go way back...

@sinatorj I kept riding up the lift with this sicko who had nothing but dead fetus jokes and a perverse sense of humor. I blame him for the twisted number plate.