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Rumors flying on Reddit that Knolly is no more, or at least bankruptcy upcoming. If true… sad day that Reddit beats Vital to a big rumor. https://www.reddit.com/r/mountainbiking/s/X7ho0Uxg8t

If it rides as well as it looks, then it should be a damn good bike 🤩

More Reya pics if anyone is interested. I reckon vital editors have them too, but they can’t post them. Source

You're an amateur. I carry a ton of tools, but every other year or so something goes so horribly wrong I STILL have to walk back to the car. Bikes are pretty good though. My proudest trailside repair was actually roadside...blew a shifter cable 40 miles from home on a cold February day on my gravel bike. I had an extra cable in my little revelate gas tank bag. Fixed it, rode home.

Hot take but I hope the Forbidden bike doesn’t have internal storage. I’ve never owned a bike with internal storage. Also never carry ANY tools with me (I don’t really go on huge rides) I probably have to walk back to the car once every couple of years. Bikes are pretty good these days. Im biased but I don’t get too turned on by internal storage. Anyways, would a XC/DC bike be the perfect candidate for internal storage or nah? The whole point is to be light. Seems like skipping it would mean a lighter bike, easier to manufacture, less...

Video with the Forbizzo/Reya "full details" allegedly at the 19th (march?)

New FOX Float X and DHX shocks are live! - https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/first-look-2027-fox-float-x-dhx-and-l…

Latest post on neko's instagram shows one picture of the dh bike on the stand and it looks like the main pivot is way higher up the seattube to get high-er virtual pivot .

I'm here to defend (good) trail associations. I was the first Executive Director of Evergreen MTB Alliance in WA State in the early 00's and then on the exec committee of the board for another 10 years. We (both paid crews and volunteers) built tons of tech trails, and yeah a lot of flow trails and jump lines for the masses. I think a good balance between the styles. Behind the scenes we fought HARD to keep open the unsanctioned areas - areas I rode and may or may not have spent countless hours digging at That fight wasn't...

Yeah, consumer gas demand seems to be shockingly inelastic in North America. I conceptually have no idea how expensive gas needs to get at the pump before it meaningfully changes our behaviour. Certainly more than we've ever seen and certainly more than whatever prices of the pumps are in Norway and other expensive European countries. We've set up our societies to rely on the car and we'll be damned before we make any significant changes, behavioural or legislative or infrastructure. And besides, if we manage to hit the behaviour-modification price ($4CAD/litre? $5?), we're going to be so hurting with the...

eebs came online the same time grav did. we want the sport to grow but a lot of new riders see rocks on a trail and wonder why the trail builders didn't smooth them over. new eeb riders with a strava heatmap can get themselves into a lot of trouble...

Ever watched any sport ever? How they are full of people born with qualities that make them especially good at their sport? You think the top pros don’t have a better baseline than your neighbor? Sports have ALWAYS rewarded athletes who have natural predisposition for their sport. Look at the inverse, sports that favor smaller riders. Hell, talk to a 6’5” downhill rider and ask them if a 5’5” guy has an advantage…

Don't worry, I'm in no hurry. The problem I'm trying to highlight is that bikes are less and less easy to live with and less likely to bring people into the sport or persuade them to stay in the sport. Always focussing solely on performance as the most important product attribute is wrong in my opinion. Same with unserviceable and increasingly powerful ebike motors and other 'innovation' in the bike world.

Be good if they put some effort into selling bikes to new people, rather than new bikes to existing riders. If the industry was a bit more outward looking and less self sabotaging, we would not be in the current slump. 32" wheels won't fix the market. Same with companies only focussing on high end, if everyone does it, nobody wins.

This is what companies want. You need a new bike bag, a higher price train ticket, a new car, and a new house for your new 32” bike. The Consumerism dream.

My concerns over 32" wheels are practical not performance. My current bike barely fits into my bike bag, cars, trains etc. Storage space in my home is limited, a bigger, longer bike is not something I want right now. I doubt if uplift trailers and chairlift mounts are ready for the bigger wheels yet.

I cannot believe how inane the convo around 32 is. Please, people: you are saying the exact same things they said about 29.

Not to mention the Square-Cube law making it increasingly hard to maintain a competitive W/Kg. I doubt there are any endurance athletes on earth who would ask a genie to be 6” taller.

I have a different opinion. As long as it's a bike with 2 wheels and human power output, I say anything flies. Don't level the playing field. Let it be raw. If the winning combo is sitting in between 60 inch wheels then let that be. Maybe there will be an advantage we don't know yet to shorter people vs taller people. Don't limit the equipment beyond necessary, let it all play out.

I wonder how fast the Santa Cruz V10 would be with Aspen STs