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Around here as far as I see most people use a pull rope thingie to assist kids on the ups and usually use an ebike themselves (the adults). That way the kid has a lighter (and cheaper) bike.

RE: lifetime warranties on rims. When WAO sold to I9, there were several interviews with both sides. Neither of them indicated that warranty replacements were a big cost item. Surely it's non-zero, but there is so much other shit going on in the industry that are bigger factors. Likewise, for Santa Cruz / Reserve, their warranty replacement costs have got to be such an insignificant line item. But the big difference between Reserve/WAO and the CSS wheels is the former are tough as hell. Yeah, it's possible to break them (I broke 2 different WAO rim models, and I know...

Let's be real though, lots of high end sales involve carbon wheels, and lots of people go after them thinking carbon wheels will make them better but they still ride blue flow trails and the wheel are being extremely under ridden, as well as road bikes. The amount of people smashing carbon rims multiple times vs the number of people that they'll last forever due to their riding level, is hugely Sku's to the rich blue trail riders that are more likely to have a blown up freehub body than a damaged rim. I've been pounding on a set of...

One issue, Trailforks is owned by Outside and they don't care about you or our sport

DEATH TO ALL HEAT MAPS

Cateye computer sensor, shows top speed

is this actually for real? how do the bolts not destroy his inner thighs? let alone the thought of it being a double-sided meat slicer if he falls off the back at all.

I’ve got to say this thing on Reese’s Gamux looks extremely terrible and a bit dangerous. The rest of the paddock is 3D printing these kinds of fairings, rotor guards etc. and Aon is out there looking like a high school project.

Love that Forbiddens latest email pays true homage to the Crab link: "Still wondering what the f**** we’re on about with all the crab stuff? A theory exists called Carcinisation wherein all non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. A very clever Vital MTB user noticed how many mountain bikes brands had evolved towards the same form and linkage lay out. He declared that this new evolution of bike layouts be named the crab link. And many pages of crab jokes followed. It’s an obscure and very inside joke. But hey, now you’re in on it too." Trend setters we...

Pretty sure if that part of the stanchion is out in the open air you've got bigger problems than aerodynamics...

Kinda wild that Yeti is ranked that high. Digging into it, most of their points came from Cami who is retiring. Also amazing that she's earned nearly as many points as Bruni this year (1105 vs. 1126). I bet they go shopping for a replacement top 10 rider.

there's 8 wild card spots and based off this year every team that applied for a wild card got one.

Great. So all we need is for the sneaky guys who have never done the right thing to be transparent and responsible and do the right thing!

O Callaghan is managed by Net performance according to his Instagram. And I also don't think there's any professional relationship between Whiteley and Frameworks now.

Do you think lifetime warranty killed that company? My assumption would be no, unless they were just monumentally stupid and didn't do sufficient forecasting to properly bake the cost of running the program into the cost of the rim. Personally, there's two way more obvious things to point at: 1. general bike market conditions 2. the difficulty of running an American manufacturing company in the current tariff/regulatory bizzarro world going on down there. Edit: another company falling before the deadline!

Rear end be like....

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"Designed to push the limits of what's possible on the roughest terrain..." Spec'd with EXO casings 🙃

I like to do all my speculation on the shitter.