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Speaking from experience, Enve's stripper wheels have eliminated my most common cause of flats - bead cuts/pinches. Those DT rims are strong as hell and build up great, but they do tend to cut beads. It's probably fairly well protected patent-wise, but otherwise a similar system could be adopted for alloy rims. This and DH casing tires are a nearly indestructible combo (I know, I know - Minnaar at VDS in '17). Together you'd be covered against pinches and tread punctures. Throw a Cushcore in there for one more level of insurance.

"the shadow of the over-compensating Pinkbike booth", love it.

If you’ve been riding bikes for over a two decades or ask your seasoned shop guy (you know, the only mechanic who can setup cantilever brakes within a reasonable amount of time) which fork changed suspension as we know it, one product will come to mind: Z1. Well before the year 2000 and the frantic Y2K computer-crash scare, mountain bike forks consisted of slim tubes containing rubber-like chunks of plastic known as elastomers. Riding with dampers at the time was like playing a spontaneous game of Russian Roulette, but replace the bullet with a shower of fork fluid. Anything offering...

Simply put, your expectations of how long a shoe that is as grippy as a 5.10 (head and shoulders above ANYTHING else on the market) should last is out of touch with reality. Comparing the sole grip/wear to tires, a good set of sticky tires (NOT Conti Black Chili) last weeks at best. Of course you can always trade off grip for longevity and go with a harder compound tire, same with the shoes. I bought a pair of the Giro Riddance shoes due to no availability of the 5.10's I wanted and I can tell you that they are...

too *phased* by laurie's run to focus on spelling : ) fixed. thanks!

Spomer beep noise needs to be a thing.

Dear bike companies: Don't put out press releases for products not available for 4-5 months. Especially when 'end of northern hemisphere riding season' is your release date.

Thanks for response. That all makes sense to me. My 2017 Stumpy has the (pretty heavy stock) Traverse OEM wheelset with 29 mm internal width rims (currently shod with Nobby Nic 29 x 2.6) so I've looked at the Flows but they seem pretty heavy compared with the Arch Mk3. The Arches obviously can handle some serious trail riding having watched your video.