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That's one way to get a discount bro....slurp

For some reason, transparent isn't the first word that comes to my mind when I read "AI powered judging"

FWIW there's a reason why the likes of Microsoft, Amazon & Co are aligning themselves with nuclear power projects since AI has become a thing...

The "downhill mountain biking" "category" being half gravel, road and motorcycles simply reinforces the notion that there's nobody at the wheel at youtube. And why would there be? Automation (and/or pushing the burden on to everyone else) is the only way modern tech companies can be profitable businesses. Youtube doesn't let us see our list of blocked channels any more, presumably it was becoming embarrassing. You can clear the list, but you can't see it. Mine would be more than a thousand channels so far, if I had to guess, and still grows daily.

Fucking LLMs will be instrumental for accelerated enshittification of absolutely everything.

If they make another one of those special edition frames with scribbles of internet comments I’m pretty sure yours has a good shot at prime top tube placement 😂

It’s wild to have your cranks disappear into the frame at a spot different from your chainring. Kinda really totally have to ride one of these…

Apart from article already mentioned by others, there was also this piece from Monde Diplomatique (it's in English) https://mondediplo.com/2025/02/11bikes This is not the type of investigative reporting I would expect from cycling news outlets except maybe Escape collective and even then I don't think they would truly go in depth as those kinds of issues most likely are present in others Taiwanese industries that cycling outlet wouldn't have the contacts,source or access. The migrant workers situation and issues is also not exclusive to Taiwan but other countries as well like Vietnam and mainland China for the bike industry. In other...

I 100% agree with Jeff. What he is is trying to say is that discussions/disputes/debates in forums for example get heated very quickly. Sarcasm, irony, mimics, ... are not always being received the way they were sent. Words that weren't meant to be offending, are received to be. More often than not, things totally misinterpreted and cause frustration, anger, even hate. If you, on the other hand, sat with that counterpart in a bar and discussed with him while having a bee, it's usually a totally different storyWhile maybe still not agreeing with each other's views, the dispute would go...

Personally I think a mid-sized non-removeable battery and a good range extender provides a best of both worlds Removeable battery that drops out the side or the front of the downtube add considerable weight. The options that drop out the bottom of the downtube with minimal work being the best compromise.

Full list of rumors this year: Oisin to Trek Everyone else to Frameworks

it may not be faster but you’ll find yourself in a lone breakaway every ride

What the hell is wrong with these companies? Both Stoll and DirtySixer think they can sell bikes without telling people the geometry. Is this just some kind of rug pull because they don't know what they're doing, and until Trek or Specialized or whoever comes out with a sorted 32inch bike they can trick people into being early adopters with the alure of new-new (be the first on your block!)? This is some fly by night nonsense.

it burns a tree every time you just look at something

It used the South Park underwear gnomes episode as inspiration..