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Hoop stress. The same way a very thin soda can can hold multiple atmospheres of pressure when you shake it but it dents easily when you push on it with your finger. The finger is the unlaced wheel. Good point on the few local spokes getting detensioned, but the neighbouring ones being tensioned more though. Didn't think about that one. Currently my intuition would be that the neighbouring spokes only cover the deformation itself. You still have the outside force to deal with, which would be spread over the top spokes. But I'm not 100 % sure that is actually...

Great explanation/demonstration! The cool thing about wheels is the way they distribute the load around a large section of the rim, with the bottom spokes reducing in tension/length and the spokes either side increasing in tension. You can kind of see the evidence of this in a very broken wheel - if you look either side of a very flatspotted or cracked rim you will often see splits or stress marks around the nipples where the spokes have tried to pull through.

Some of them were Complete builds, meaning the frame in one box and the components in another. So, all the adjustments. But most were standard one box builds with primarily derailleur adjustments and proper torques. Yetis come as frame and parts too. So your LBS does a complete pro build on every one.

After ordering the bike a few weeks ago, finally found a couple evenings to get it put together! I ended up ordering an "open box" model, which was $300 off MSRP, and everything was in perfect condition when it arrived. Assembly was pretty straight forward, as it was mostly just bolting on the wheels, bars, attaching the derailleur, and adjusting controls. Fit and finish on everything was really nice. Really like the Intense tool kit that came with it as well! Although I already have quite the assortment of tools from wrenching on motorcycles for many years, it was just...

Anyone know anything about this BrakeAce thingamajig on Sam’s Crestline? Nevermind, found this: https://bikerumor.com/brakeace-brake-sensors/ Ps. Not affiliated in any way, just curious as to what it is

They won't sell you the 1.8 lower bearing seperately over here. Only the lower cup assembly for £80 (there are ways around this)

Yup, Steve pretty much talks openly about it in the comments.

I remember Charlie Murray (NZ) was running flight attendant last year after it got released but don’t know for how long that lasted

Has anyone seen any Rockshox athletes running flight attendant on their bikes? I haven’t been able to spot any from my casual peruse of the footage from the first 2 EDRs.

Dude the ACROSS headset lasted like 3 rides for me. Imagine, 3 rides and you have to disconnect, brake, transmission, seatpost

It’s not even a big problem for future Commencal owners, because majority of bikes will end up in bike shops with cracked frame warrantys before the headset dies. And then the bikeshop will have to deal with headset cable routing and bearing replacement.

That's the joke... the headset mafia has Commencal in their grips, and soon they will have taken over the entire industry. They will soon be paying off small steel frame manufacturers

Vorsprung Shock?

Sorry, but who is paying Commencal to use headset cable routing? Big headset? Local bike shops to charge more for servicing? Total garbage lol. Its done for looks to the average joe, and its cheaper production.

Seems for the Tempo (sorry, T.E.M.P.O.) they had "standard" routing on prototypes, and then switched to headset routing for production. Really shows that they don't HAVE to do it, but they're *definitely* being paid to do it.

It's strange, I've seen some with routing through the frame and some with headset routing, I wonder if they're going to offer both?

Looks like Headset routing for the new Meta..

Whiteboard looks like... "Primer Mule" "HP6" with a bunch of things below it with check marks "Tazer Recon?" "Tazer Alloy" "Tazer SL?" maybe SL not sure on that. On line looks like it might say "DJ Project" Then some other numbers that aren't really legible