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Power of thiccness is a wild marketing line

Downtime mentioned how widespread the breeden bar ends are becoming, with people like Bruni, Pierron and many many others using them. Owning a pair, having recovered from 2 broken hands (left then right) in 3 years, I've found they definitely live up to the hype and really helped with arm pump and security of my weak hands on the bars. The bar ends are a much more interesting innovation than I originally expected, because they significantly change the biomechanics of the upper-body while riding. Stopped by the Orbea pits this weekend and they've cut grips down (pretty sure it was...

I feel like they think they discovered hot water with those statements, Also, funny how until yesterday it was impossible to fit anything thicker than 1.8 and absolutely useless, according to Shimano, but now hey, 2.2 😅 which is very welcome of course

Will this finally bring the industry over to 200 mm over 203 mm?

Sorry for the ted talk, but it's actually official:

Sounds like you love your job at Warner Bros😆

Incoherent. We have. More independent media than ever. Better insight from vlogs and socials than ever. A live broadcast. Insanely fast young racers, more new tracks than ever and 9-10 races per season not including Worlds. And yet. It's a "bad direction"?

Thanks for the reminder ❤️

Probably time to kill yourself… ❤️

There are no words for how disappointed younger me would have been with older me. Empathy and that whole "prefrontal cortex" thing have both been pretty wild.

sorry, it's not ebike talk, but here are pit bits photos from leogang https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/pit-bits-2026-leogang-world-cup-dow…

I would answer this question but we're not allowed to talk about ch__n__ay _ength in the tech forum anymore.

Guys, I know you don't want to hear this... but the racks on that new Levo 4 X monstrosity are really cool. Those ugly Levo X racks move all of the cargo on the bike from unsprung mass to sprung mass. As forum dwellers, we should all be able to appreciate why that's going to ride better, even if the XX cranks, the paint job, and the S-works price point are all serious headscratchers. If you don't believe me, check out this writeup from Travis Engel at the Radavist on a similar front rack design that he bodged together on...

Since we're off topic enough,I might as well invest my 2¢... I have enough experience on all sorts of bikes and their electric lookalikes. To me a downhill bike is the purest form of mountain biking. And this is my subjective understanding of the sport. I also really enjoy pedaling my Enduro bike. But I think most of us agree that the descent is what we call the "fun part". A downhill bike doesn't make compromises, and focuses solely on the fun part. You could try to argue that an ebike is about getting more of that fun part, but...

Surely you don't take the lift at Whistler bike park or shuttle with your buddies then? Because you're a purist, right?

"emtb can't give me suffering" Spoken like a man that has never run out of battery halfway into a group ride 😁

$89 to go to the bike shop and pick up your own bike?

(Cross-post from the Bike Economics thread; if people don't think it's relevant to this thread, I'll delete it) My friend (- owner of a small chain of bike shops) just told me that, a couple of days ago, Trek informed their dealerships that there's going to be a lot of change in their product line-up in the near future. Apparenly Trek is discontinuing a bunch of models, including the Session, Slash, Remedy and Top Fuel. The way the announcement was worded makes it seem like there's no direct plans for updates or replacement models for any of them, they'll simply...