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Rulesman Hambini Diaz [I’ve redacted my comment about Dale Stone because I’ve seen two of his videos and that’s not enough to draw an informed conclusion] These are all content creators who seemingly never have anything nice to say about the big companies. According to them, everything’s terrible all the time and they’re the only ones calling it out, the voice crying out in the wilderness. I agree that the big companies do things that suck and that drive me crazy, but if you can’t ever say anything nice about the bigs, even when they notch a win? I have...

Totally enjoyed listening to this. Spomer and Charlie need to do their own podcast.

The crown on Podium is hollowed out. We tested multiple variants with more and less material removed, that's how we settled on the exact amount of hollowing there is on the production fork. We refer to these holes as "lightening bores". As Charlie noted, we were chasing the sweet spot of stiffness to satisfy our pro athletes and weight was a secondary concern. Some other USD forks on the market are lighter and while they may work well for many people out there, they are not being raced by the best riders at the highest level. We chose the name...

Is it 2014 again? https://www.mbr.co.uk/news/bike_news/mondrakers-forward-geometry-explai…

What does running a stem that 'matches the fork offset' have anything to do with anything? This is one of the most WTF claims I have heard regarding bikes and bike fits. Where in relation to this offset is the tyre to ground contact patch? How does the handlebar to patch relation change relative to wheel size? Fork axle to crown? Dynamic sag? Travel position? Head angle?! Most importantly, what does the position you attach your handlebars to have anything to do with riding dynamics when you can have multiples of 10 mm difference in handlebar setback (effective reach or...

Totally agree. I listen to pretty much every MTB podcast, but I can't handle Needles and his constant interruptions of his guests. He seems like a cool guy, and he's well respected in the community, but the podcast style just bothers me.

I wrote (then deleted) a (poorly written) post last night, but I’m in the minority here; I agree with Needles to a large extent. I'm not bitter, and I'd be totally fine if they kept the junior category, but from a precedent standpoint, it's rare to have juniors compete alongside elites in any sport. To be fair, it's also rare to have men and women race the same course on the same day, and that won't (and shouldn’t) change. The real issue WBD is trying to solve is how to make this “property” valuable. I don’t think juniors are the...

Fox owns RF.

@TimBud couldn’t post the picture in the comments, and here could interest more, lever blades on the Evo Tech 4 are not backward compatible with Tech4 masters due to different cam design

Those are the new M9220 XTR wheels on that beautiful Baum, so 29''.

@TEAMROBOT on diaz/rulesman/hambini https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/fox-podium-inverted-mtb-fork-questi… (you may have to scroll down to get to it)

32" and Apogee from Baum. More here: https://escapecollective.com/spoken-2025-baums-been-busy/

Richie just posted " As some noticed im not on the podium, just down to not having the hours to get the full bike setup with the larger frame and being on the DH this season. Looking forward to get some time on it, and it was a treat to ride in Finale and would feel amazing on alot of the roots and rough here!"

Also, Fox is going to get back to us with an answer to the unsprung weight question, which I'm excited to hear: Question: What's the difference in unsprung mass between a 38 and a Podium (lowers, axles, lubricating oil, and the spring and damper piston rods)? Answer: Engineering is pulling together a roll up on this one. I will do my best to get you something ASAP.

Just recorded the Podium Q&A podcast with Spomer, which should go live tomorrow at 9 am PDT, but wanted to share something here that didn't quite fit into the Podcast format. We asked FOX a couple specific tech questions before recording the podcast to help us answer reader questions, and this one was so good and so detailed I wanted to repost it here: Question: If bushing overlap is so important, why not extend the bottom of the lowers on an RSU fork further down to create more room from stanchions and create more bushing overlap? Answer: What you suggest...

I trust robots opinion on it, I get the feeling he would call a spade a spade if this was a flop. If it's that good, consider me curious, but not financially that curios. I'll wait for the firesales.