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If you believe the CEO of Madison, Jordan walked out on the last year of a signed contract with Madison/Saracen to link up with Specialized. You would speculate that a bigger salary, more professional setup and Specialized lawyers saying "LOL, try us" all played a part. You can read the comments from 'Dominiclangan' in this thread on the other site. From memory this was only a year after Danny Hart announced he would be leaving Madison/Saracen while they were still a few rounds left to race which was and still is extremely unusual, reading between the lines of those two...

Open bath dampers, short wheelbases, baggy clothes, things were better in the past

Is this just the wrp centrehub without the cover on or something new?

Just to feedback on longer term performance of Mary Gravity Radial as requested... I have run Ultra Soft Front/Soft Rear on my DH bike (Trek Session) for the past two weeks at Tignes/Val, Pila, Les Arcs, Les Saisies, Chatel, Champery World cup track, and rounding it off with a 10km vertical day at Morgins. Faultless! The grip is sensational, it hooks up on lines where you wouldn't expect it to stick. It rarely burps (no sealant down the sidewall, hardly loses pressure after a day), and you can actually run at pressures similar to conventional tyres if you accept the...

V-10 got four wins in a row last year and nobody said a thing.

I do think it has a lot to do with team support and maybe NV10 helping with the prep and mental game, but... I'm pretty sure Loic has said in an interview that whatever tech Jack and him develop, they get exclusive access for the full season until the next year. So Loic could have been on better suspension with a smarter electronics system than the other boys in previous years, but now they get the full system. Added to that wasn't it last year (could be 2 years back) that Finn said his off season getting used to the...

Here's a challenge: name another team with three elite male racers who could win on any given day. Was that team able to sustain that level of parity between their riders? I have to go back to IronHorse Madcatz or Volvo Cannondale in my mental rolodex to think of a team that's had this level of talent on the payroll. What's most impressive and surprising is that Specialized (who typically cannot wait to drop underperforming riders) has kept Jordan on the payroll for the four years of consistently upper midpack results since his first win so that he had time...

Loic always got preferential treatment. They all talked about it many times. Loic being out has always been the thing Finn needed. Jordan I don’t know, he’s more of an enigma. That said, they were all flying in S. Korea. Nico being in the team must be a game changer.

The Extraterrestrial is more important to the team's recent success than the bike or Loic being gone.

Or maybe people are reacting to your lack of respect for their time. You’ve added a signature to every one of your posts advertising your AI coded product in a forum where almost no one uses a signature so it’s basically spam. When you asked a technical question and were given resources that answered your question in great detail written by an industry subject matter expert you used AI to read it for you and it gave you a wrong answer which others had to correct. People are putting time into knowledge sharing and you’re here just slop-posting which is...

Yeah, AI shits the bed once again.

There are racers on the WC DH running internally geared hubs or single speeds?! Let's not forget that Gates is a HUGE company. The bike industry connection is certainly their smallest division. Their automotive and auto adjacent business revenues are likely 1000X what they see in the bike industry. Gates isn't going anywhere and we will be seeing further adoption of their products as they expand into more aspects of cycling. Had a few beers, years ago with a major tire manufacturer sales rep. He talked of how the bicycle division was their highest margin division, but their gross sales...

The price of the helmet is not important. It’s how it fits you and can you wear it for hours. Same for road motorcycles and off-road motorcycles too. Do you have a POC shaped head. ?? That helmet wins on looks alone. For DH I have a Leatt Gravity 8 because it is so comfortable.

It wont this year. They made the mistake of designing it without a gearbox. Scrapping the whole lower half of the bike.

I have both a singlespeed and Zerode Katipo with 12spd analog Pinion gearbox. Constant drive lines FTW. Never having to worry about maintaining, hearing or shearing off a derailleur is far worth any drag compromise. Any noticeable "drag" is on gears higher than 6-7, plus shifting from say 5th to 2nd gear is instant, not a massive clunky chain moving event. That said I don't see current gearboxes being relevant for anything less than enduro or heavy duty trail bike applications. /2c

All this drivetrain efficiency/Gearbox discussion is making me think about the joy I get from riding my singlespeed.

Two words in the title of this thread make everything relevant and on-topic. Tech and innovation. If there was strictly a “tech rumors” thread, it would inevitably discuss the technology that a product is competing against or replacing. There’s really no way around it. If you aren’t going to discuss the relevance of a new product or innovation, then what’s the point? As far as Ebike derailments go, the separate thread is nice. But you have to argue that 90% of the tech and innovation in MTB right now is because of Ebike market dynamics.