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Lots of frames now being sold at over 3 grand (a couple over $4,000). I understand it's a business but I wonder if these manufacturers are actually looking more at margins as opposed to market growth.

Why not an aggressive hardtail? Makes all the sense to me...

That would be cool, my guess would a Capra replacement based on the Izzo design to accomodate a water bottle. 160-170mm 63 degrees up front. Ebike could also be realistic, they need to upgrade to the ep8 at the very least.

Released on Thursday, available in 2025?

True, I'm pretty sure the Dave and le Bomba share a frame

Could mean he’s on Cannondale. All the waves/Bryceland crew run blacked out La Bombas

Surely you mean a New Supplier hasn't been announced yet?

They seem to do that every year. Didn’t they break Tahnee’s move to Canyon last year?

Oh please stop with this BS already, 35mm stanchion size is absolutely fine for DC fork use and has actual benefits over bigger stanchions. Go watch 2019 rampage and count how many riders are on boxxers going way bigger than any WC riders do, kyle strait included. It all about money and fox has shitload of it, no wonder with their aftermarket pricing that is essentially 2x of equivalent RS product(at least in europe) or is it ? If RS will produce bigger stanchioned DC fork it will be only for marketing purpose, just like FOX.

Ummm, not to be a jerk here, but Thirion has no real leverage to pick a better team, so not sure why you think that. Might want to look at his results and which way they are trending. He's a very course specific rider (an absolute genius on that style course) but he's not a threat for the overall. Never has been. Also, per their usual effort, Giant didn't go after an overall threat unless Jacob Dickson catches fire. They constantly are a step below winning a title outright in any discipline. Makes me think of pro football & basketball...

My thoughts exactly, a new hugene. It was the first bike to come with the shock-inside-front-triangle Propain layout and was carbon only all the time, while Propain seems to be embracing Al quite nicely with other models.

Hugene is quite dated, and "it's huge" soooo...

Yeah, it's clear why they have the floating axle, to take away the effects of tolerances of hubs (which are a real thing, even among the same hub models, let alone different models and different manufacturers) to prevent leg binding. And it's not if the chassis can or can not have dropouts aligned, they could have a tight tolerance, but that flies out the window once you get a hub that has a width that is 0,5 mm under the specification (for example). And the axle does not slide withing the sleeve, the sleeve is positioned to the hub and...

That's about how it works..

what I/we actually don't know is why Nuke didn't pay tax on bikes before as, from my experience, less than 55% in EU production tax still applied before Brexit to every factory/manufacturer in EU - and I know, because I work with a couple small factories near me and in order to not pay that tax, they resort to all sorts of combos - on the other hand, in July-August-Sept, a shipping container of 40ft HQ was around 2000-2500 USD, while in December and also now in Jan is anywhere around or between 8000 USD and 12000 USD, depending on...

US prices are usually without tax, yeah, because there each state defines their own sales tax. And if you ship from Asia it's not really that different in price than shipping to Europe. That and customs tariffs and we are where we are. Plus 3700 GBP in Euros is almost 4200 €, which makes it a 12 % difference to 4700 €. And the VAT is a bit lower in the UK, the EU price might be the same for all countries (so pre-tax price could be different here and there, if they do it that way - Slovenia has...

The local Nukeproof dealer published notes that the bikes (that have been downpaid already) will probably be a bit more expensive, but they will try to honor the agreed upon price. And that the reason for this is stocking the bikes in UK with customs charges getting them into europe raising the prices. Supposedly they are working on a EU warehouse for 2022 to avoid this shitstorm of a situation. Brits really did royally screw themselves over with this Brexit stuff...