All

You guys get to have sanctioned trails?

I also noticed that none of the bigger brands (Specialized, Trek, Giant, Santa Cruz) launched a bike with the M2S motor today. Specialized I get, since they have their own, but the others kinda made me raise my eyebrows and wonder who was turned off by who. Longer lead times?

Evil having some fun.

A sale is a sale at this point. I think many brands are just hoping to sell through a production run of something at margin these days.

Wasn't expecting that Amflow PR price point.

And poor Kona trying to release a backpacking hardtail on this day. I guess they didn't get the memo.

My condolences to everyone who bought a current gen Levo at full price. There's zero chance the prices stay that level with a $5,000 Amflow around. Cheapest alloy Levo is $6,100 and the cheapest carbon Levo is on sale for $8,000 from it's MSRP of $9,200. (bonkers) Spesh was always dreaming with those prices, I mean even before the Amflow who would choose the Levo over a Vala that costs less? I'm a removable battery absolutist and would still get the Vala over the Levo. Luckily according to Amflow being able to NOT remove your battery quickly is now a...

we may or may not have had to buy a super computer to handle all the data.

what does this classify as?

I don’t know I think yall are sleeping on the mismatched tires. I’m running an assegai in the front and a kryptotal in the rear (mainly for its wear characteristics). You can pry both from my cold dead hands. I’m loyal to whoever makes the best gear aesthetics be damned.

Arc’teryx is in a very different position to most brands entering MTB, and the current numbers make it clear why they can afford to treat it as a fringe category without pressure. They sit inside the Technical Apparel segment of Amer Sports, which also owns Salomon, Wilson Sporting Goods and Atomic. That group context matters because it brings scale, shared sourcing, and a long track record of operating across multiple technical categories. Looking at FY25, the business is moving fast. Total revenue hit $6.57B, up 27%. Technical Apparel alone grew 30% to $2.86B, with 19% omni-comp growth. That tells you...

haven't read all the replies but I'll put my input in. having broken a total of 6 reserve rims using CC pro i knew there was something up. turns out the pressure from "rim strikes" was transferred directly to the center bead; the thinnest spot of the rim and causing it to break over and over again, i had to buy another wheelset just to use the rims while the broken ones were in warranty process. ditched the rims and the inserts and changed my setup to Zipp/CB rims with newly released (at the time) Conti tires per recommendation of...

Shiny new tech stored in the filing cabinet! https://orangebikes.com/pages/phase-avinox-model (Still love my Stage 6, regardless of what the internetz tell me about it 😄)

I ve got a hope front hub with the 2 different adaptators for 20*110 and 15*110 , you just have to take off the circlips , put the other adaptators and put on the circlips again. Cornelius ( from Intend) tell me that there is no significant rigidity difference beween the two axle

Like a lot of people, I am not very smart. Also, I have been riding tubes quite some time and when I switched onto tubeless back in 2018, on my Intense Tracer VP, I thought that will protect me from flats. I only knew DH tires, I didn't care much about wall thickness, soft compounds etc. But I learned with or without my will. The next year I got a 29” Foxy and kept flatting with tubeless. I got sick of this, after I ruined what should've been a good enduro race at the beginning of the season. This involved...

Exactly. My wife and I were just discussing this topic this morning. There’s no way that a lift acccessed bike park (at least the ones I’m familiar with in the US) is making a profit off lift tickets and rentals, especially compared to winter lift numbers. A single green run probably holds as many skiers on it at any given time as the busiest day mountain totals at a park like Angelfire. What the bike park does do, thought, is provide another summer attraction to draw families and people to the area and get them renting houses and condos, eating...