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1/27/2023 2:10pm
Primoz wrote:
2nd button is confirmed for Flight Attendant. It also gives you the option to vary what each button does - you can have a gear change...

2nd button is confirmed for Flight Attendant. It also gives you the option to vary what each button does - you can have a gear change AND the dropper drop on the left remote (and the other gear change on the right). I'm guessing an e-bike middrive motor from Sram would also incorporate into the AXS ecosystem.

Nothing I’d miss with the old controllers then.

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1/27/2023 8:39pm
kcy4130 wrote:
      Integrated bash guard. Flat top chain. Doesn't look like taped 5 dev to me, but something being hidden or new?

 

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Integrated bash guard. Flat top chain. Doesn't look like taped 5 dev to me, but something being hidden or new?

From the little bit that isnt taped over it kinda looks like the center of the crank is set in a little bit. Maybe to try and prevent paint wear from shoe/foot rubbing 

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1/27/2023 8:58pm Edited Date/Time 1/27/2023 9:11pm
brash wrote:
Spitballing here, but I think SRAM may have ponied up some money for this deal to keep Jesse on the books as a development rider/tester, dude...

Spitballing here, but I think SRAM may have ponied up some money for this deal to keep Jesse on the books as a development rider/tester, dude is in tune with his gear and gives good feedback it seems.

saw that, looked kinda like that shapeshifter remote from the strive but he‘s on the spectral.

 

edit: okay as some have mentioned it's also a flight attended remote.

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1/27/2023 9:00pm
 5dev cranks without holes? 

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 5dev cranks without holes? 

Clean that Vaseline off the camera lens and maybe we could tell.

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1/28/2023 12:04am

Hoping Jesse will post a bike check on youtube soon.

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1/28/2023 12:59am
Kango wrote:

Hoping Jesse will post a bike check on youtube soon.

my guess will be not with what he's actually riding until that new stuff is officially released.

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1/28/2023 4:40am
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It seems like the best fork is coming to the market 

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1/28/2023 12:10pm
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There we go. This is going to become the de-facto DH fork in no time. 

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1/28/2023 1:50pm

De-facto in what way?

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1/28/2023 6:07pm

If EXT would offer “custom tuned to the rider” as standard for their forks like they do with all their shocks, then ya I’d say its got the potential to be up there with the best. 

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1/29/2023 9:40am
If EXT would offer “custom tuned to the rider” as standard for their forks like they do with all their shocks, then ya I’d say its...

If EXT would offer “custom tuned to the rider” as standard for their forks like they do with all their shocks, then ya I’d say its got the potential to be up there with the best. 

I think if you order through their dealers you can get a custom tune.

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1/29/2023 1:13pm
If EXT would offer “custom tuned to the rider” as standard for their forks like they do with all their shocks, then ya I’d say its...

If EXT would offer “custom tuned to the rider” as standard for their forks like they do with all their shocks, then ya I’d say its got the potential to be up there with the best. 

BBaldwin wrote:

I think if you order through their dealers you can get a custom tune.

no they dont offer custom tuning for their forks YET... they have 3 standard tunes for both comp and rebound. same as everyone else basically.. 

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1/29/2023 3:18pm
If EXT would offer “custom tuned to the rider” as standard for their forks like they do with all their shocks, then ya I’d say its...

If EXT would offer “custom tuned to the rider” as standard for their forks like they do with all their shocks, then ya I’d say its got the potential to be up there with the best. 

BBaldwin wrote:

I think if you order through their dealers you can get a custom tune.

no they dont offer custom tuning for their forks YET... they have 3 standard tunes for both comp and rebound. same as everyone else basically.. 

1 day a week of strength training for a few months will put 99% of riders further ahead than custom tuned suspension will

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1/29/2023 7:24pm
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FullSend wrote:

There we go. This is going to become the de-facto DH fork in no time. 

Unfortunately it's made for e-motos

1/29/2023 10:03pm
Gracey Hemstreet riding the upcoming BoXXer (from her Instagram)  

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How do you all spot this stuff from clips like that?!?Blink

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1/29/2023 10:35pm

Weird eyes seeing unimportant (in the grand scheme of things) details. 

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1/29/2023 11:43pm
New controls look like a dogs dinner though.

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sharpy212 wrote:

Looks like a wing mirror off some bodged attempt of a homemade café racer! 

Any idea what the cable is that's wrapped around his handlebars and maybe going to that head unit.

1/29/2023 11:56pm

Any idea what the cable is that's wrapped around his handlebars and maybe going to that head unit.

Likely just a tether.

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1/30/2023 2:13am

SRAM acquired Hammerhead.. so it could be something new they are working on. the hand does look placed nicely to hide it away. Yeah like Steve was saying like just a breakaway tether to stop you loosing your computer in a crash or if the mount fails. 

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1/30/2023 2:32am Edited Date/Time 1/30/2023 2:35am

Jesse did Tag stages cycling though...

Don't see how he would run their power meters on a Sram crank on the other hand. Stages made their own carbon NDS crank and aluminium cranks weren't equipped with power meters as the shape of them is not suitable for a power meter. With the rumored holed crank coming it makes it even worse. I do suspect we could see the dub spindle power meter from Sram (Apex? Rival?) crossing over to MTB besides the spider based quark options, but that's still a first party solution, not a Stages product. 

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1/30/2023 6:27am

Stages recently sold a big interest in the company to Giant, fwiw.

Cycling Electronics is the dumbest market segment.   The only electronics I want in mtb is Alex Rankin pointing a VX80 with a fisheye at someone flying sideways.

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1/30/2023 11:20am

While being quite a big opponent of electronic shifting and electronic suspension (the bike should just work...) I would buy a DUB spindle power meter in a heartbeat for my MTB. Just to geek out and to see what kind of power I can achieve on the bike. If spider based power meters weren't limited to 32T chainrings (104 BCD...) and would fit a 30T, or the cassettes would increase to ~54T max (enabling me to run a 32T chainring) I'd buy one of those, something along the lines of a Sigeyi off AliExpress.

Do I need one? No. Do I want to try it out to geek over it? Heck yes. It is true though that a power meter running out of battery doesn't affect the riding experience in any measurable way compared to electronic shifting and suspension locking out though. 

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1/30/2023 12:32pm

Reliability wise?

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1/30/2023 12:34pm
hardbash wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kttyGm8MXuQ Vivid Air 2.0 coming

I think we knew this already. What remains to be seen is whether it’s anything more than a race day shock like the previous one was. 

Not sure I follow you. Pretty sure it was even an OEM shock at one point on the Santa Cruz nomad.99F96FF5-519D-4519-9070-DF084A365121.jpeg?VersionId=xm

 

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