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It would be funny if they announced that they only wanted to come back with an average team :D

Really wish we could go to permanent # plates in DH. Let's you put a big # on your jersey & gets WAY easier for us to ID riders coming by when # plate, sleeves & back all have your consistent #.

Yes, of course. You might be ignored, but yes, all mountain bikes are allowed.

Sorry, didn't mean to take away anyones human-ness, I swear I saw a video a few years back in the Giant factory where robots pick, weld and even box a frame.

Workers in China, Vietnam, etc who by their gained welding skills stand over those hydroformed tubes and weld them each day for few hundred dollars into bicycle may not be human to you, while guy putting glue in a lug and then tube in that lug may be human to you, But, yes, this weird world has always been like this.

Machining scales reasonably OK. At least in comparison to carbon and welded aluminum frames with the right design choices, especially compared to 3D printing... Can't find a picture of a Chinese CNC supplier with like 500 CNC machines in one hall (~20 by 20 CNC machines in a grid pattern), but this is Protolabs:

Bearing in mind we have no official info on this, it's all just assumption and guesswork. All we have is some grapevine info from chats a Dyfi. Whilst the rear end does look machined it might just be done in the final stage of fabrication (after printing). As they do with their current bikes. People (on this forum) have criticised the man hours in labour it takes to finish their current lugged bikes, but you just have to look at their accounts to see that it's clearly working for them. We know they have a very impressive 3D printing capability...

This explains the new pricing on the droppers.

New Huffy/Juicy Fruit signed rider interview: "Hey everyone, I guess the cats out of the bag! Yea, I'm really excited with what Huffy has been designing behind closed doors, I wish I could share more but you'll get to see more in the coming weeks but its amazing and really smashes through the rough stuff. Juicy fruit has also made some big strides with their new athletic gum line, it's super good and The juice is soft, it gets right to ya. Juicy Fruit, the taste the taste the taste is gonna move ya. Stoked for 2024!!!" The Yellow Juicy...

Even Dak wouldn’t ride that abomination.

In that Instagram image Jackson also seems to be using a Oneup cockpit, rather than Burgtec. Oneup and Santa Cruz are both Pon brands, so makes sense.

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What about back and up sweep? High bars can come with a larger angle on both that, in case of backsweep, actually moves the hands back again, again shortening the reach. Substantially, in the range of 30 to 40 mm compared to a standard backsweep of 8 degrees.

Confirmed i guess..

I figured it was this exact article, yes. I take it back on the strength front, as the ultimate and yield stress ratings for 7075 are 572 and 503 MPa while only 350 and 290 MPa for 7005. On the other hand this is of little use as fatigue strength rating is 159 MPa for 7075 vs. 150 MPa for 7005. So functionally, for cyclically loaded parts (bike parts), it's more or less the same, a benefit of ~6 %. As for stiffness, I'm talking about the modulus of elasticity - usually 70 GPa for aluminium alloys, 140 GPa for...

Why exactly would a weldable 7075 alloy make carbon obsolete? It's a bit stronger than 7005, but just as stiff... Where you are stiffness limited, not strength limited, the frame will be just as heavy. It's not a magic bullet, nothing is really... Maybe beryllium 😂

Uaaaauu.. I've actually spent my dump time searching for the last comment mentioning that. It's on 19/01. All of you, excuse my non-nerdiness.

Stak Norton

Well you are correct that a carbon frame can have alignment issues but I think what Neko is referring too is that warpage and the misalignment issues that result from welding is are more severe and harder to overcome manufacturing wise than something that comes out of a mold like Carbon. A post machining process on a jig would solve these issues in either method of course. My big concern with CFRP in a non Aerospace application like Bicycle frames is definitely QC because as you pointed out, there is countless ways to f-up such a labor intensive process like...