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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.

That, is something Entirely different to a brake torque arm. The Ribi Quadrilateral. Designed by Valentino Ribi in the 70s. So much more than a 'traditional' Leading Link front end! Tested - in part, - by Roger Decoster - He even did a few GPs on VRs original steel , twin shocked prototypes. RD, persuaded Honda to buy the design / hire VR. And, they went hog wild on it - getting to the Single Shocked version in around 1982 : They never went much past that. Just another design bought by a massive company, and , ultimately shelved. Though...

Polygon seems like a DTC brand in the US because they exclusively sell through bikes online here, kind of like how Ghost was only distributed through REI which made them seem like a cheaper department store kind of brand. Only being sold through an online store is functionally the same thing as DTC, even though they're not. If they open up their distribution to more shops Polygon would probably grow as a brand in the US, but untill then the only people who are going to ride them in the US are the people who bought a bottom of the...

Apologies if this has already been brought up, but Forge + Bond is now a pickleball paddle company. Quite the pivot.

Reasonably priced… it’s Intend. Love their stuff, but none of it was reasonably priced so far. Even if the price is justified through production volume/company size etc. However, I am curious, too, what Cornelius came up with…

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"Once you recognize that, you also have to accept that you are probably wrong a good chunk of the time too, which, frankly, makes saying anything at all a little cringe-inducing." Indeed. I poopoo'ed tapered steerers and12x142, and I have no issue with Super Boost. Crow can be tasty when you season it right.

My uncle is a retired 3 star and former ceo of one of the big defense contractors. Still is on the board of directors for a few of them. I’m not going to bother him for his opinion. But this lucky dude seems extremely young and out spoken to be much of a player in that industry. The majority of guys making decisions are in their 50s and 60s, spent a lot of time in the pentagon either in a military or civilian role and have zero inclination to step into the limelight. I’m sure their are outliers but going...

Because some of the trail building I do is funded by big 5 military contractors (notice a theme here about massive consolidation?) my algorithmic news feeds are chock full of weapons industry PR. Normally it’s just press releases about new autonomous aircraft and “integrated kill meshes” but yesterday the mainstream press got in on the game; 3 year back orders and homeless employees This article in Politico about challenges in the American Defense supply chain is actually pretty relevant if you want to start talking about re-shoring any bike manufacturing- and absolutely terrifying in the context of a Taiwan straight...