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This post sounds like it was written in 2007. There's about 15 years of data surrounding the proliferation of social media. These companies aren't stupid, money is invested where the impact is most likely. I'd wager that collectively more people consume bike related content through social media (Youtube, Instagram, etc) than regularly stream live race coverage. Who cares that no one will exclusively, only watch Sam's content when there's millions of people who will consume it along with other bike related content?

Isn't that the way with Kona though? They are all the hype for a few years (OG Stinky etc. in the early -00's) to being absolutely irrelevant for some time (Magic link anyone?) to coming back to being the bees knees (Process, Carbon operator, gravel bikes) and then back into the abyss again.

I hope they won't be the only ones allowed to do "behind the race" coverage. I just find their presenters insufferable to watch and they lean into the clickbait way too much for my tastes. I very much enjoyed most of the videos with Ric McLaughlin, can't say so about anything on the GMBN channel.

The Stem is the G5 Stem from canyon....... the Downtube shape is a spectral, the Chainstay protector is a canyon the top tube paint line is canyon. the chainstay rear pivot location is a spectral, the headtube is the canyon spectral. Looks almost nothing like the Status If it quacks like a duck, walks like a duck, looks like a duck.... its a duck

Probably because analogue riders have no interest in emtb. And emtb riders have little interest in a cobbled together jallopy.

Pilgrim on Specialized would make sense for one reason, Status. If you look at the people riding the Status on social media, it's mainly the kind of street BMX riders. Very much in Pilg's wheelhouse. How much you want to bet we see a chartreuse Status?

Forbidden seems like an odd choice for a jib bike but i guess we’ll see

That’s some next level aka creepy level sleuthing!

Was he supposed to build half a home? 2/3 of a home? How much of a home is acceptable to build?

I was riding at Dyfi bike park a few week back and the whole 50to01 crew were there. Craig Evans was riding a prototype Airdrop bikes frame.

My pleasure.

Not the way they are configured now, it would require a whole lot of after machining As for the Intense bike, commenting it all being CNCd I was going off the blog post and pictures where only the downtube and the top tube are actual tubes, the whole shock cradle/seattube/BB area and both the seatstay and the chainstay are CNCd. As per @Uncle Cliffy post. As for georestricting... https://i.imgur.com/UNFAmP3.png What in all that is holy is going on in that video?? :D

Not from my emails it hasn’t

Yep, it’s pretty common knowledge that Will Longden is ‘difficult’ to work with. There has been numerous near punch ups in their setup over the years.

Question: has anybody seen the prices actually go down at some point, for some reason? It seems that as soon as people get used to certain prices for stuff, the industry just keeps the status, because it is not in their interest to shrink them. But this is only my perception, I could be wrong. I can give one example, I don't know how relevant it is though: the gas prices in my country are pretty much only rising. Even when the international market is down, they either stay put or shrink in minimal increments. Because people are still buying...

I wouldn't be surprised if it costs more than 100 dollars more to ship a frame from Asia right now. Aluminum is more expensive than ever and so is labor. I'm sure for a smaller company like Commencal the waters are very tough. Even the big companies with huge investments in overseas factories are raising prices quite a lot.

I heard pros absolutely hated the 10T cassettes and got 11T cassettes and larger sprockets. Also... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsk3zAZyLaQ

Will going back to non-headset cable routing the new threaded BB? Companies jump on the integration trend now and then in a few years some company will go back to the "old, better style" of external routing and be lauded for finally listening to the consumer and then over the next three years most companies will return to where we are now in the ever cyclic world of... Well, cycling.