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While none of are likely to buy the $20k bike, it's got us all talking about it... Mission accomplished...

Surprised no one mentioned the Pink site article on the new Lyrik and SRAM patent on what is actually inside that leg - " Published on August 28th for SRAM LLC, the document shows a fork with a user-adjustable bottom-out bumper located at the bottom of the fork leg. This could prevent harsh bottom-outs and act as an on-the-fly bottom-out adjustment tool."

a pear and and apple are pretty close bro I don’t know the car stuff but I know upwards of 20 fruits.

I don’t understand this sentiment. Spec still makes a bike at a price point for you, now they add a bike that means they will actually make money and can continue making the bike you want. But then they are lame for that. Imagine driving a Ford Focus and then you start shitting on ford because they build the GT40? Or maybe this would be more equivalent to driving an f150 XL then you whine because they build an F150 Lariat

Cool that sram are making a big effort for their athletes but personally I think all the 50/50 colour schemes look terrible. Wasn’t working for Pivot last year, isn’t working for the syndicate or norco this year. Frameworks knocked it out the park with the American chopper video 😂

Go DM Fresh Paints of Whistler or ETOE or anyone else who is doing bespoke, high quality custom painting and you too will see that 3-5k is fairly market rate for top of the line work. Specialized is kinda semi production and way less cool, so it's less justified, but if someone at Seth's shop wanted to splash a ton of cash getting a true custom paint job, then it's not a surprising price. I probably have 150 hours into my Aurum and it's far from what some of these pro shops are putting out.

probably more for "spec rumors" thread but S-Works Levo 4 LTD version is $19,999 - FOX Podium, Cane Creek Electric Wings Ti cranks, Trickstuff brakes. https://www.specialized.com/us/en/s-works-turbo-levo-4-ltd/p/4260592?co…

The paradox is if you're a true Scotsman you'd never spend the money. 🤣

You can always tell a girl who is interested in you no. Or at minimum not yet. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone imply Jenna is at all at fault or that she doesn’t have the right to do what she wants to do and be with who she wants to be with. I’ve only seen people question bernard. Who while doesn’t have Brian lopes level of bad reputation doesn’t exactly have the best one either. He’s always come off to plenty of people as a bit of a tool and I think his choices just solidify that thinking for...

Here is the official retirement announcement from Camille Balanche - what an incredible career she has had, stepping into the sport so late (only a couple of years after picking up her first bike!), and achieving what she did is no mean feat. Congrats on the career Camille, all the best for the next steps!

Back to the days of NORBA when big players had West Coast rigs and East Coast rigs. Whistler will get the big rigs and Lake Placid will get rented popup tents and bare minimum needed. Anyone know what the current attendance records are? I'd be willing to bet Whistler is going to smash them.

what about Mineral Oil regulated? (i'm kidding...that's going to be a HIKE across the country).

2026 World Cup calendar revealed WHOOP UCI MOUNTAIN BIKE WORLD SERIES 2026 CALENDAR UNVEILED Round 1 / May 1-3: Race of South Korea, South Korea (UCI Cross-country and Downhill World Cups) Round 2 / May 22-24: Nové Město Na Moravě, Czechia (UCI Cross-country World Cup) Round 3 / May 28-31: Loudenvielle-Peyragudes, France (UCI Downhill and UCI Enduro World Cups) Round 4 / June 11-14: Saalfelden-Leogang Salzburgerland, Austria (UCI Cross-country, UCI Downhill and UCI Enduro World Cups) Round 5 / June 19-21: Lenzerheide, Switzerland (UCI Cross-country and Downhill World Cups) Round 6 / June 26-28: Val di Fassa - Trentino, Italy...