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I wouldn't be surprised if they basically end up with three key frames: Next Gen Top Fuel for Cross Country/Downcountry/Trail Fuel for Trail/All-Mountain/Enduro Then the Next Gen Slash/Session for Enduro/Downhill. Similar to the latest Orbea Rallon. I actually saw this on the Slash FB page the other day, apparently it’s a custom 190/190mm travel Gen 6 Slash with custom rocker/lower linkages and dual crown fork. I imagine a Slashession would be extremely popular since it can be pretty hard to justify a downhill bike for a lot of people, but something that could do both without too many compromises would...

Transition life aquatic!

Nukeproof are actually on the way back though.

This is a good glimpse into the future of the internet. If a company embraces AI in pretty much any capacity I’ll have no choice but to assume it’s a scam like this one because soon it’ll be too difficult to discern the bad actors from the good ones to even bother

Full statement from the UCI regarding the suspension of Edgar Carballo Gonzalez for alleged sexual harassment, followed by a statement from Mondraker: ----------------------------------------------------- The UCI Ethics Commission issues a decision concerning Mr Edgar Carballo Gonzalez The Union Cycliste Internationale’s (UCI) Ethics Commission – a body acting independently of the International Federation’s administration – announces its decision in the case involving Mr Edgar Carballo Gonzalez, a Spanish downhill and enduro mountain bike rider. The proceedings followed a complaint submitted by another rider via the UCI’s confidential reporting platform, UCI SpeakUp, reporting an incident of a sexual nature that occurred in her...

Smoother suspension will make you faster on a 20-minute race run or a 2-minute race run. "Comfort" can serve as a canary in the coal mine for bike setup, because if you're getting beat up and bounced around by your handlebars, that probably isn't a fast or efficient setup. A couple years ago Loic Bruni was doing a video play-by-play of his 3rd place race run at the season opener World Cup race at Lourdes, and he was talking about how he went up in compression a couple clicks between qualifying and finals, and felt like he could barely keep...

A long time ago, before suspension and disc brakes, it was a common suggestion from armchair experts to set your levers so the top of your forearms and the back of your hands form a straight line. Terrible advice as it puts tremendous force into the thumb joints, but probably great for not having nerve issues in the wrist. Imagine trying to bench press in that position with the weight on your thumb instead on the heal of the hand.

According to people during Hardline Tazmania, that only happens to Pivots. Does that mean that - just perhaps - bikes that get ridden hard sometimes break?

Now you can have two shocks setup completely wrongly.

Pretty sure that Beat Zaugg has such a chub for Twinloc that he played the long game with the Bold purchase, just to finally be able to offer a DH bike with a lockout lever.

Pretty sure the Scott team has been racing on that frame all season so far.

While the name is kinda on point, it could be worse, like "Ransom."

No so sure about the strategy of, in fairly quick succession, having a huge sale and taking a bunch of people's money, sending them an email telling them neither the bike nor a refund are imminent, and then launching a new version of a bike called the "decoy."

I don't really care the reason why a company sends out a email saying "thanks for the cash, but we can't fill your order nor issue a refund. If you have any questions call your lawyer, not our (non-existent) customer service"; I'm not pulling the trigger on an online purchase.

I particularly enjoyed the underwhelming and cheap sounding "tink" sound of the bike/scooter bottoming out.

Not quite to the cinematography level of YT/Christopher Walken, but it’s damn close.

fun fact: it’s called aluminium

Conspiracy theory: it's just filled with sand and works like a deadblow.

Might be a proof of concept, but combined with the plastic mount and zip ties I do wonder how effective that would be as a TMD....