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It would be interesting to learn what exactly would be changed in a fork to accomodate for Telonics vs mellower trails.

I’ve got a Rallon coming with 450/450. I’ll let you know if the hype is real.

Um why do we need separate bikes and industrial design and spare parts just because travel increases by 10mm? What am I, an average rider, missing out on when trek consolidates their front triangles, or even front and rear triangles? A badge? Some cute ID details? Superfluous and insignificant. Geometrons aren’t some compromised sub-par bikes, when you do the math you realize there is massive overlap in multiple categories of bikes, and planning for that and allowing for parts to be interchangeable is SMART not CHEAP

A point I rarely see addressed in regards to modular bikes is that you also have the "inbetween" option now. Take the Rallon for example. Lots of us want big bikes but have no intention on racing them, so a Rallon with a dual crown, a 10-44 cassette on an xplr derailleur, paired with some less burly rims, a water bottle cage, and a full sized dropper. Not a DH race sled, not an enduro epic, but something dedicated to having fun at the park. The modularity is cool, the ability to build a one off dedicated purpose built bike...

RAD is the worst addition to this thread. horrible derail.

As someone who owns both a SC Vala and the latest gen Bronson... they ride very, very similarly. I'd give their 4 bar implementation the edge for overall plushness and just feeling well rounded. VPP feels racier and will give you more energy back from pumping. I've heard others suggest that their implementation of VPP works best on longer travel bikes, where they end up feeling very efficient but can still soak up big hits thanks to the travel numbers. There seems to be some truth to that. So I could see them shifting their shorter travel bikes over to...

What frame are you on? I have short legs and love long reach. There are lots of frames I can’t run because the seattube is still too long.

It's more about the smaller sizes, shorter rides really struggle with both seat tube lengths and insertion. You can't really get away with designing a frame that plain sucks and doesn't work in some sizes. Seat tubes are getting short AF now in general though. I'm on a 472mm reach frame with a 385 seat tube. Which is bordering on stupid. I could run the largest size of this frame, with 522.5 reach, with my 210 dropper, and switchgrade which adds stack, and still have 15mm of exposed post that I could drop. That is definitely starting to get pretty...

Seat post insertion is a big one.

For those who are still seeking level 2 torso armor but looking to stay below 200, Leatt just answered the call: https://us.leatt.com/collections/mtb-protection/products/chest-protecto… I think even if this were released before I'd have still gone for the ION, more than pleased with it, but it's nice to see the price point of a dual level 2 chest pro drop more and more.

i rather be able to just buy the sleeves, they are always ruined and the inserts are fine. such a waste of material having to throw them away way too early

tech rumors forum update - you've spoken and have been heard we'll lock out this thread at the end of the year (no matter what, it's just too darn big now), and will carry on with yearly tech rumors threads that will be stickied for easy participation. the 2026 thread is already underway here (not yet stickied) i just want to thank everyone for their feedback and insight on what this piece of the vital community means.

Banshee is perfect except for dropper insertion

This is what I logged on to suggest as well. It seems like a solid compromise, no?

Crabification, forum edition. I'm honestly just thankful that there is still a place to discuss things that are meaningful, that are not facebook groups. Thanks to all for staying committed to the gen x/millennial form of endangered internet discourse that is the forum.

I follow a lot of these threads, almost no company responds directly with info. Except PUSH. Very much appreciated

Now have 2 sets of 6 month old T4 V4's that have horrendous amounts of wandering bite point, gets slightly better after a bleed but immediately returns after 200m of descending. No visible leaks and no pad contamination, very odd. At first, I was thinking either the diaphragm or master cylinder piston, but I'm almost wondering if it has something to do with seal rollback on the caliper pistons (ie not retracting fast enough), as it doesn't seem to be ingesting air. Has anyone else had similar problems?

It relates to 6-bar and 7-bar link suspensions, sixfinity and sevenfinity for example.

Greeting people with "what's up assholes?" in videos is not poor attitudes. Leave Unc alone, he's honest and he works hard to spread the good word of long rear centres.