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Find a bike with a decent leverage curve (ie. one you like), get the pivots done, maybe install an angleset (better yet, works components), send the suspension away for a refresh and it’s a new bike! Early gen alloy yt capras are hard to beat for value. There are others but they mostly have actual seat angles from 2008 and suck for climbing.

I'm a little surprised you found the STA to be that slack - I have to imagine this bike fares far better than the recent crop of Santa Cruz bikes with their extremely slack actual STAs.  At least the Arktos has a similar actual vs effective STA.

Ritchey did this years ago didn't they?  Shame they didn't market it properly.

I would say the speed record is most similar to Macduff's loop. Both are stunts that happen to nominally involve mountain bikes, but neither of which is mountain biking. You can care if you want, but you certainly don't need to…

First time I saw sonic youth was 91 and they were opening for Neil Young at the PNE. The crowd had that same reaction - ear drums and minds blown - but they were generally not stoked. Between songs some guy in the nosebleeds shouted "FUUUUUUUUCK YOOOUUU!" somehow loud enough the entire arena heard it.

are they only going to have one male pro elite rider? no one is replacing vergier?

haha, realistically, I want it all, but yeah, if pressed I'd take an experience… Some people have more money than time, and some just like bling. I won't fault them for that…

I'm with you - I'm just not sure it's the first, second or third thing I'd upgrade on my bike… I'd rather spend that money on a better fork, or a trip somewhere.

I live in Nelson, so similar deal here - I run a 28 and am spun out about twice a year. Your comment also makes me wonder how badly we need this massive range on the coast/whistler and the Kootenay's.

Couple bars in San Diego also serve it if you're needing a winter get away.

I see these on sale - how’s it working out? How is a 73 deg unsagged seat angle on climbs? How large a rear tire can you fit?

i'm way late to the pary here, but found it laughable how the polling was done. they called landlines. totally missed (ok, lowballed) the under 30 crowd, as well as people who may have moved here in the last 5 years and also never bothered getting a landline.

that reminded me of nitro circus slip n bleed episode.

That's slightly more common for smaller loans at smaller companies, but I doubt Pollack was personally liable for any of the $2.5mm. As noted in Cam's article, the loan was secured by product inventory (some of which turned out to be junk… I wonder if there were any bar ends in there…)
Sure, Pollack sounds a little shady here, but I think it's also fair the question the governance of the company at this point. The board exists to prevent a single person from destroying a company. Who were the board members? Were they also unaware? What was their compensation? Were they all buddies of Pollack?

anyone find footage of spagnolo and peaty's crashes? and what was minnaar alluding to - personal challenges, etc…?