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Does Intense sponsor any athletes outside of WC? YT seems to be the more likely candidate here with Dak Norton and David Trummer, both of them were at the pointy end of things pretty often this season if I remember correctly.

Or Dakota Norton? Edit to add... YT Mob is also running a big sale on all their merch with big savings and limited stock.

If history has taught us anything it's that he will be riding an Intense M1.

It’s hard to believe that an entire world cup team is about to cease operations leaving a group of legitimate podium contenders to find new sponsorship and there’s been nary a peep about it on this forum.

so them, canyon must be letting go of one of their riders. Wallace\?

Look what I wrote just above 😉

Sam Hill... Will probably troll us all again with an announcement saying that he's staying on Nukeproof.

Yeah, TLD doesn't make a road helmet so my guess is its just a stand in. And no, riding road with a mtb helmet, regardless of visor, does not look ok haha.

March apparently.

I know we haven’t seen/heard much since race season ended, but has anyone got any info on the new rockshox stuff? Seemed like there was some HSC on the super deluxe air and coil. Very interested.

Thank you

Yea... My question was an apparently too subtle reminder that this is Tech Rumors and there is an appropriate forum for this conversation over at "How Much Reach is Too Much Reach?"

when you feel like you're being pulled down a hill by your bike in steep section and scare the shit out of yourself because you no longer feel in control -thats too much reach. go ride a long reach bike down a gnarly steep chute. if you cant continue relocate your body rearwards in steep sections to feel comfortable because you have fully extended your arm "travel" -thats too much reach. The steeper terrain a bike can go down, the shorter the reach will be to allow for arm travel and body maneuverability. long reach allows for you to be...

I wouldn't say no to a 200/200 sus mullet furious from commencal. Supreme is too racey with fun killing chainstay length also I dont think 29er front wheel takes any fun out of bike park jumptrails whereas 27" front wheel feels sketchy af on anything tech

Part of the reason DH bikes have shorter reaches than trail bikes is because of the long front center due to the longer axle to crown and slack HA. The more stretched out you are the harder it is to go over the bars but the less leverage you have to create a front wheel lift and rotate around the rear axle. The longer the front center, the harder it is as well to get that front wheel up. Of course there's more to it when you think about levers as geometry is a whole package with the BB drop...

Karabuka that was my point, effective top tubes have barely changed (enough to cover the stem lengths and the relative horizontal location of the 'seat end of ETT' and the seat itself - the steeper the SA, the more forward the seat is, requiring a longer ETT for the same seat to bar length, at least in the XL frame size realm), but reach values have grown a lot, mostly due to the seat tubes getting steeper. If you rotate the seat tube around the joint with the top tube (keeping the ETT more or less the same), the BB...

We haven't gone full banana with bike Geo yet, my new bike is 505 reach, 1336 wheelbase with 462mm chainstays and rides perfectly fine to me, In the future I think head angles will stay the same (63 been the enduro "norm" even) but Chainstays will grow substantially, therefore creating some long wheelbase monsters. 1300mm wheelbase won't be uncommon.

Maybe those wheels are OK, since they're fairly light anyway and a lighter cassette is a decent option?