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It's not that your mechanic has to deal with 2 extra cables, since he's probably working in a Scott shop, he has to deal with 2000 extra cables a year. If it was limited to XC race rigs I could get behind it, but it has no place on a Ransom for example. Ever worked on a Ransom eride? Kill me now.

If the bike is 5% better but 15-20% more to deal with and issues, is it a better bike? I can tell you the new spark and ebike are going to cost $$$ in repairs for the extra leg work to deal with the suspension and tuning the twinloc on the spark is going to take way longer to tune. I've rarely run into a situation other than fireroad where I even want more than a firm up on my fork, twinloc is a new rider sales feature at best and something expensive to replace if you hate it at...

Along those lines, all the custom parts on bikes too - weird standards of headsets, custom, one-off shocks, etc.

Twinloc is living proof that the designers don't give a fuck what mechanics think.

Pricey way to get josh back with rob and peaty.

I run 29psi rear and 27psi front

It's a bummer how DT Swiss hubs have taken a dive in reliability. I had my EX ratchet replaced after learning about the surface defects in the first batch, and it's already showing wear.

psst, specialized isn't a botique brand either

"who is Joe Graney"? - FLFlatLander This is epic.

A hipster? Really? I'm truly offended now

I bet a lot people on this site won't get the reference since this movie is the same age/older than them LOL

You guys need to get some taller testers :-) Short head tubes/low stack height are the bane of my life - the banshee sounds perfect for 6' and over riders who would otherwise be battling with too low bar height...

This is the most retarded thing I’ve read today. But the day is still young.

Run aluminium nipples, thinner spokes, a lighter rim, a lighter casing front tyre, a lightweight rotor adapter, aluminium carrier rotors, run a stealth axle instead of the toolless Maxle, etc. Or clean your bike if it's dirty. Any one of these points will about make up (or more than make up) for the weight of the buttercups. If you're shaving grams so far, that you're worried about the buttercups, remove the paint from the lowers or go for the Pike instead of the Lyrik. Or the Sid instead of the Pike. Those buttercups are, weight wise, a non-issue. They are...

https://www.sram.com/globalassets/document-hierarchy/service-manuals/ro… The new Zeb air piston is a spit for Vorsprung's Luftkappe. New pistons for the Lyrik and Pike too. Edit, nope just realised the air shaft is threaded internally on these vs externally on the previous/current gen air springs -Looks like the buttercups are a similar size to the C1 footnut so highly likely they'll be retrofittable to C1 air springs-

Interesting nobody's talking about the fact the flight attendant lyrik and pike have entirely new chassis

Perfect for all the garbage flow trails with grade reversals and drainage built in made of red clay by trail dozers.