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He also said that Cotic bikes are going to be making the front triangle on WorldWideCyclery's podcast

We really need to go back to gawdy Photoshop comedy. Spomer was one of the OG rebels of MTB cut & paste comedy.

if you watch the podcast there's footage we filmed of him riding in the new gear (listening only is so 2022 : ) https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/nik-nestoroff-inside-line-mtb-podcast

Lol @ the X2 memes

new trp derailleur? cody Kelley insta

Goal is 100 rides every year and as many with my black lab mix trail dog as he can before he retires, he’s turning 10 this spring. Bikes are dialed in so now I just need to stay healthy.

Now, don't you guys laugh at my pitiful goals, but I hit my 800 mile goal for 2022. The problem is that I spent all my ride days focused on getting a few more miles, and I ended up riding flatter, less-challenging rides to keep the odometer ticking over. So this year, I'm going for an elevation gain instead. Last year I landed just over 30,000 feet, so this year I'm looking to get 50,000'. That's going to be a tough thing for me to do, honestly.

It’s a Status, I can tell from the pixels and my having seen lots of bikes on the internet Or it might be a 2015 Raleigh Kodiak

It looks like Sam Pilgrim will be off to Specialized. The thumbnail from his announcement video 'premier' on YouTube has a bike that looks very similar to the Status. All the other circumstantial stuff like no longer with conti freeing up spesh tyres, visiting San Fran a few months ago, hints from his last video about it being a big brand, do ebikes, and slope bikes etc all seems to point to specialized.

I couldn’t care less about having an off-season. I’d much prefer to ride year round than not. But i like seasonality and wouldn’t want to be so cal or Arizona based where it’s just varying degrees of hot and dry riding. I enjoy prime wet and tacky spring, dry dusty summers, and leaf surfing in the fall. Warmer parts of pnw are ideal for me cause you basically have cold spring and nice spring instead of winter.

My riding season is about 9-months long. Sure, I would love to ride year-round, but I think a little bit of a break can be beneficial even if it isn't ideal. After a long riding season, I think a little time off can recharge the stoke. During the spring/summer/fall riding becomes part of the routine. Over the winter you are thinking and dreaming about riding. When your favorite trails start melting off one by one in the spring I find you kind of fall in love with the sport again. Also, the older I get the more I read about...

I'll wade in on the Intense debate as it's pretty interesting. 1. If you look back at the HP1 it probably used the same process as well, it was just a more simple design and thus went under the radar. 2. The fact that they are welding it in a structural application seems like it would rule out casting as most of those alloys don't like to be welded. If they where bonding that would be a different story. 3. It could be forged into the net shape, then they just machine out the core material to create the hollow...

This is going to be the year I start racing enduros, shooting for at least one BME race, RezDuro, and at least one Trail Party event. Climb our local mountain at least once (4k” from the house) Attend at least one skills clinic.

Ride Dirt Digler in Fernie Do some backcountry suffer fest where I feel like a moron the entire time for even picking such a stupid ride but at the end of day go “that was cool”. More commitment and just send it. Take my kids riding more.

Hoping to do the reverse Everest again at our local bike park this summer, this time only on the Black DH trails. My crew and I did it two summers back (30k descending in a day), but babies and life prevented it from happening this past summer. I want to do a 10k climbing day in the national forest by my house. A co-worker and I also like to do "no dab rides", where we call out a loop for the week and try to ride the whole thing without ever putting a foot down. It's a surprisingly fun challenge...