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FWIW Transition does not void the warranty if you use a Cascade Link.

The old frames broke due to poor design/manufacturing. Factor of safety was much too low. They don't have that issue anymore. If you swap the link on a bike that's going to break anyway it will still break so not really a good example. In fact if you made it less progressive you'd break it even worse when the shock slammed into the bottom out bumper. Do we do mechanical testing? It would be wasteful to break frames just to do it since all you would learn is that you have to bottom out really hard to break it. You...

I'm sure it was the cushcore that got them the wins.

borrowed a friends bike for a bit and it had cushcore valves and i went for a ride with all the confidence that there was cushcore in it. i could feel immediately there was no cushcore in the tires and i ended up denting the rims kinda bad. all my bikes need cushcore always no more messed up rims way better traction way better ride feel

I for one cannot wait till I get to try one in 2023.

Initially we did for sure as we use very high tech equipment which requires highly skilled/trained people, but are in a recreational industry. This often had us being overlooked by talent in fields like aerospace where people thought MTB's were just toys. Now, we've built enough legitimacy as a precision manufacturer with all the high tech toys and have been able to draw talent from the Boeing/Tesla/Medical of the world. This has come from our partnerships with companies like DMG-Mori and Sandvik who are leaders in their fields of high tech manufacturing and often use us as a case study.

Never let it be said that we didn't do what it takes to get the shot!

We've invested heavily in people, and still are, as this thing doesn't work without them. It has taken us some time for sure, but we have a strong team, and now have a great process for finding talent and integrated them into our environment efficiently.

Lucky for me my bike has 425 chainstays and a 425 reach. Maybe I’m the lucky one at 5’3”?

This took me a few days to listen to but I loved it. Nice work Vital! I was fortunate to ride with Charlie and his see his van when he rolled through my neighborhood after I chewed out one of his sponsors for him making a comment I was unhappy about!!

Great Podcast, thanks for sharing Charlie. He proves his point riding for Felt. I wonder if companies don't make growing chain stays solely for monetary reasons but nobody wants to admit it. I am such a bad rider that I enjoy my long chain stay on the Geometron G1 for all the reasons but I can also ride and enjoy my Yetis with their short chain stays that stay short even on L and XL :-( PS: the seat angles on SC are too flat, let's face it. :-)