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I will preface everything I am about to say by mentioning that I work for a wheel company, and as such I have an unusual capability to replace wheels. I am very very lucky to be where I am and as such this can be taken with a grain of salt. With that being said... Inserts for alloy rims are a tough sell for me. I am not an exceptional rider, nor am I particularly heavy rider(165lbs with kit), and I have destroyed an aluminum rim despite running a heavy Cushcore insert. Somewhere on this website there is an excellent...

Yes, if you're located in the US, this is the way. If you can't find a dealer that's within driving distance, most shops will happily ship a shoe if they have your size in stock and it's out of stock everywhere else, and Specialized dealers almost always honor the (insanely low) price on the website. All my friends on flat pedals swear by the 2FO DH because it's as sticky as the old Impacts and it has a stiff shank too, which are two impossibly hard qualities to find in the same shoe these days since the death of the...

Statement from the founder of VHS who sold the company to RideWrap. TLDR: owner of Dyedbro is a scumbag To the MTB Community, Back in February, when I first saw the Dyedbro "SHUSH" hit the market, I made some heated comments on social media. I was operating on raw emotion after seeing a product I poured my life into get repackaged by the very people who actively sabotaged my company. Today, the dust has settled, I have the documented receipts, and I want to lay out the exact timeline of what happened. I started Velocity Hucking Systems (VHS) to solve...

Reading the article on PB this is more interesting than what is being reported... According to DYEDBro there are 3 main points, with point 1 being: " 1) The co-owner of Dyedbro is also the co-owner of VHS. His partner at VHS attempted to sell the VHS assets out from under him without notice, consent or approval in violation of the VHS shareholder agreement and the law." If true then that does put a different light on this... Could be an interesting one to look into further, but I doubt we'd ever get to see either the shareholder agreement or...

Clearly this SHUSH product doesn't work great, it failed to keep Ridewrap silent.

$40 per month is a ripoff, idk what you're on about. The season lasts from May-October (6 months), which is $240. Each elite race is about 3 hours. 10 races per season is 30 hours of racing. That is $8 per hour of livestream, more than minimum wage in 20 US states. It costs WBD almost nothing to distribute the stream to each additional viewer, yet they are charging more than they would be willing to pay somebody for manual labor for that same time period. I know biking is a fairly affluent sport but it sickens me to see...

It makes perfect sense to me that the true fastest and best riders will rise to the top in horrible conditions, as opposed to the roll of the dice that we've seen at most races in the super competitive era of Q1, Q2, and a 30 rider final. The better the conditions are, the more I think they reward a gambler's mindset. Everyone is going to be going roughly the same speed and the only way to set yourself apart is going to be risking it all for the biscuit. Some will get lucky, some won't, everyone will be going...

How funny is it that he unconsciously cusses in English while riding instead of in German, though?

I attended Lake Placid last year (my first ever world cup event) and wondered how they were making any money. Tickets were cheap and there didn’t seem to be a lot of folks in attendance at the XC races. I guess not enough to cover their costs.

I miss external cable routing so much. Remember swapping rear brakes at a race in five minutes or less? Thank you, Norco. Hopefully others will follow.

When I did my scaphoid/navicular, you learn there are a lot of guys who just ride on busted wrist injuries that get better at first than worse, then ok, then worse, then disintegrate before they can ever get a surgery to stop it at "OK".

counterpoint - $600 is easily the cost of an ER visit for many people 🤷‍♂️

This a common straw man argument I see on this topic. It’s important to remember that anyone capable of going that fast uphill is only do so with a lifetime of skills as a foundation . Anyone in a pro xco race is likely never putting out 1500w in that race, and if the are it’s for about 5 seconds during a sprint finish. Theres just a lot more nuance man. No human is putting out world tour sprint finish power for the same duration as a 800wh battery Humans are creatures of the path of least resistance. If you...

STATUS 2 170 DH Might want to jump on this deal. Sheesh

I’m sure this access thing is going to be different in whatever area we are talking about. Different land managers, and perspectives. Here in Southern Oregon there are E bikes everywhere. Hikers and other groups have complained about them, but the forest service and the city of Ashland don’t have the manpower or the resources to enforce any of it. Basically like trying to stop a tsunami. The amount of rogue trails that have sprung up has went nuclear. The unexpected benefit is that everybody is spread out and it has seemingly decreased conflicts. This power argument is just a...

I'd prefer it if we give it time to gain the proof that it will cause conflicts. That extra evidence would help get regulation amount correct

This whole power war situation sucks. I spent years fighting for MTB trail access and I'm quite worried with the Class 1 eMTB players blatantly flaunting the spirit of the rules. For the first time, the anti-MTB crowd actually have a valid point. DJI and Specialized DGAF. None. Burn it all down.

Thats exactly the same response that the equine/hiking/hunting crowd had when mtb first started. The same from Skiers when snowboarding became a thing. “NIMBY”