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If they're going to do that with their long travel bikes, and if they really are going to bump the Tallboy up in travel (maybe to make room for a more aggressive Blur?) then surely they would merge 140/130 Tallboy and the 5010 with a flip chip right? Maybe even the same with the Bronson and Hightower? Trimming fat from product offerings/ getting two birds stoned at once with one frame for two bikes seems to be the solution a lot of manufacturers are leaning towards for navigating this slump. It makes sense to me, but maybe someone with a...

Every topic is just one nudge away from a chainstay debate. Not to beat the dead horse here... but I see it both ways. I'm currently riding bikes with 450+ chainstays paired with ~500mm reaches. That being said, I had a megatower 1 with a 495 reach and 435/445 chainstays with a flipchip adjustment. I actually preferred the 435mm chainstays in certain situations and riding areas. Pheonix, Tucson, Santacruz and steeps in laguna, the 435mm setting was pretty rad. Go to the bike park, or race enduros, the 445m stays were the answer. I think we all need to embrace...

This forum apparently does not have enough topics about chainstays/geo, yet. 🙄

thank you. I hope in the future (especially for any future e-bike update) you remain open minded to modular dropouts as a means to adjust hub spec, chainstay length etc. Quick thought on this comment "feel a tangible difference between a Boost & a Superboost rear wheel." This is a clarification for Vital MTB readers and not meant as a disagreement: Strength by definition is not something you can "feel" when riding. In theory you can feel compliance/ stiffness (which are the inverse of each other) on a wheel. However, in practice many believe that perceptible compliance on a modern...

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Thanks for the note & we are happy to be here! To be completely honest, I think this question is better posed toward companies that refused to tread into Superboost territory in the first place. We don't need any convincing - we still believe in the benefits of Superboost, although at the end of the day, we are a business who's goal is to actually sell bikes. The market spoke loud & clear on this one, and Boost came out on top. At the end of the day, Superboost has inarguable benefits in both strength and clearance. The elephant in...

This is a great answer. We can harp on about proportional chainstays all we want but the truth is that none of this shit is proportional. It’s not really clear what is and isn’t preserved when changing frame sizes. In reality most people that want to see proportional chain stays just want to see longer chainstays on their bike. They (we) don’t actually care about the CS of a size small and medium

Haha - unfortunately no, although we hear where you're coming from. We're sorry we rubber-banded on hub spacing. We still believe in the benefits of Superboost, although the market has spoken and Boost is the clear victor (raises white flag in surrender) Demos - any day now! Shoot us an email and I'll put you in touch with Joe who manages the demo fleet. info@evil-bikes.com

Evil, Thanks for taking questions and to Vital MTB for this forum! I have questions/ comments on three different aspects of the decision to follow the mainstream to 148x12. I will note that Trek released the 148x12 hub standard in 2015. Ten years later- Trek has released no testing data either in house or 3rd party. Trek told the industry that 148x12 is the hub standard now and nobody asked any follow up questions, we all just went along with it. STRENGTH 157x12 wheels are 20% stronger than 148x12 for two primary reasons: 1. wider spoke bracing angle 2. more...

FWIW nearly every single dropper post offering both 30.9 and 31.6 models use identical internals, including bushings, in both models. I don't think there's an appreciable difference between the two. There's a valid argument with 34.9 but at the same time, now that droppers are mature enough, I'm not sure most people are actually experiencing the issues with 30.9/31.6 posts that 34.9 was meant to solve. Companies are just too good at making em' these days. A 30.9 post fits everything modern with various shims.

I unintentionally ended up with 4 bikes with 30.9 seat tubes. So now I'm a 30.9 evangelist with only my emotions to support it... I like the idea of 34.9 because bigger must be better (right?) and all sizes fit with just a shim if necessary.

Oh come on it’s lighter and my 5 yro one up v2 is working smooth ever since I got it

I'd love to try one... in a field of crab links, faux crab links and imitation crab link look alikes, this does stand out as different and interesting. As a 6'3" ish rider, I'm interested in the design/validation process that lead to a fixed chainstay size. I'm a longer chainstay type of guy, but I can admit when I jump on a pivot, I'm not thinking of how short the chainstays are the whole time. I feel like there is a riding style that is central to evil bikes that jives with slapping the back end in and out of...

i am slowly being priced out of MTB.

i'd put forward a vote for weaponized incompetence too

Is anyone surprised by this? From what I can tell the parent company isn't emerging out of bankruptcy protections and the creditors are liquidating assets (including goat heads). Maybe the hope is the creditors are able to liquidate enough to make them whole, and the equity holders are given back the company? This doesn't seem likely. This is why Markus needed investors, to effectively buy the company out of bankruptcy. TL;DR - The parent is done, hence every regional distributorship is also done. Am I missing something?

I'm an engineering manager in aerospace that spends a lot of time with customers at various DoD agencies. Can confirm that none of the people actually making decisions will ever go on a Podcast or any social media platform. The fact that he feels comfortable going on Joe Rogan and spewing all of that information just tells you that he is not privy to real information.