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Unreal that this guy is still in the sport

How is the mood in the team regarding Daprelas allegations and departure from other teams in recent seasons? do you feel comfortable having younger female racers around someone with SA accusations?

This forum is starting to sound like pinkbike.

This looks like a BicyclePubes drawing.

I heard Vital Global Media made a compelling offer of $100 cash money, a demo bike SantaCruz may or may not have forgotten about and one set of signed Dak custom bars!

I heard Kim Kardashian has a good comeback story....

thank you all who participated in this tech rumors thread! i'm going to lock it now, but we're carrying on with annual tech rumors - find the 2026 tech rumors thread here (starting on page 7 at the time of this post). YEW! https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/mtb-tech-rumors-and-innovation-long…

They inverted their inverted 4 bar?

Not tech rumors, but soil tech history! The difference between Oregon, WA and BC is all about ice. Kilometer+ thick ice sheets created glacial terrain features and exposed more bedrock from Washington State north. Oregon didn't get the sweet, sweet ice sheet remodeling. The maximum extent of the Puget Lobe of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet was Tenino, which is between Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon. In the Seattle area you have a lot of glacial till soils that the ice pushed around. Further north the ice scraped away soils and smoothed the bedrock, making terrain for amazing tech riding. This...

Prince andrew to pivot?

This also reminds me... I just saw Brian Cahal's video pop up in youtube recommended when he was 'paid' to do a press trip review of the new Decoy release (literally so close to the bankruptcy its kinda hilarious) And there was a small quip in one of his videos about how he'd love to get his trip/flight/something reimbursed by YT eventually. Anyone close to him able to confirm? Would love to hear if like he got paid but a single thing was left out or if he got completely rinsed on the entire trip by YT or what. Or...

Full list of rumors this year: Oisin to Trek Everyone else to Frameworks

We've had a lot of deraileurments in a lot of threads. But I never figured we would ever get to Butch's Junk. Well done Team!

In honor of the 1000th page, we should vote on the best meme of 2025: 👍🏻 for “Crab” 👎🏻 for “6-7” edit: Carcinization is the antithesis of innovation. Maybe we should keep crab talk on the crab talk forum and keep this thread focused on MTB tech rumors and/or innovation.

TLDR. Lots of.......

Wonder how many AXS batteries that takes

BK & Daprela on Pivot.

Giant will stop manufacturing bicycles and shift all R&D and manufacturing to pickleball paddles.