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Simply amazing...

"I don't suppose the cell is replaceable out on the trail is it? It would be sweet to be able to carry and extra cell or two in my pocket and do a trailside replacement as needed..."

Both the Hangover and Evo are sealed units but have pass-thru charging - no swappable batteries but you could hook up an external powerbank to extend your ride time.

I have a Hangover and when the package arrived at my US mailbox ripped/empty (way back before COVID was a thing), Matt shipped a new one to me up in Canada so I wouldn't have to make the trip a 2nd time.  It's been a fantastic light and I was really happy to get rid of the external battery pack.  I have a damned near indestructible Ay-Up light mounted to my bars, but if it dies or gets lost I'd replace it with an Evo without hesitation.

"You don't think e~bikes have killed the (non-e) gearbox bike?"

I think an acoustic bike with a gearbox still has plenty of advantages over one with a traditional drivetrain - even a HT.

Edited with a weird example of damage that would be irrelevant with a gearbox (or an igh) - I'm not even sure when I did this...

I've seen that option (online) and it strikes me as a small stepping stone.  One of the advantages of the gearbox is moving that upspring weight from the rear wheel to the lowest part of the bike, centered, and sprung (assuming FS).  Getting rid of the derailleur is great, but getting that weight out of the R wheel is a big part of the benefit as well.

"Nicolai will be releasing their own proprietary gearbox design in 2021. If anyone can make a gearbox that really checks all the boxes it's them."

Sweet!  I'm not sure if going with a better known/established option like Pinion is lower risk - where not being anywhere near Nicolai HQ it may be possible to find someone who's serviced a Pinion gearbox before, or if the purported reliability of the Nicolai design and fact that the former supposition is unlikely anyway makes it a moot point...  Fortunately I'm not in any hurry to pull the trigger - but I do love seeing the innovation and increase in options!

I'd definitely be keen to try mulleting this bike if I could find a well priced fork...

Mostly I'm a fat bastard and it pedals a bit better with the shorter shock.  ;p  I spent the first year with the long shock experimenting with the mounting positions before swapping in the shorter one - mostly just because I had it and it seemed dumb to never have ridden it.  I like having more travel for when I'm only packing one bike on a trip but will be spending some time in the bike park as well as pedaling, or if I think I might be trying out a new jump/drop/gnarly line and want a little more "backup" just in case things don't go to plan - but in general the shorter shock results in a bit more of a playful bike that still handles nearly anything I'm apt to throw at it.  Having picked up a HT a year ago and spending a lot of time on that has changed my view on how much travel I "need" as well, to a degree.

Less of a "geo" adjust, but I can change my Guerilla Gravity from 135mm (Shred Dogg) up to 165mm (Megatrail) by swapping out the shock.  There are two positions in between based on shock mounts as well, but I've found that I like the 135 & 165 options best.  I don't change them often but do from time to time.

I'm pretty far from an Engineer, but haven't managed to wrap my head around how one could pair a conventional gearbox with an e-mtb motor as they occupy the same space.  Nicolai is doing an e-bike with a Rolhoff internally geared hub, which is pretty cool - but that has the weight back on the rear wheel, negating some of the advantage of the gearbox.  I suppose the other option is to move the motor up into the triangle - which shifts the weight up and forward -not ideal either.  If they could combine the two that would be a neat trick...

Is anyone else experiencing problems with Chrome? I'll fairly often get the following error message when trying to either follow a hotlink to the board (say from the main page of from a search), or as I drill down into a specific post/thread: The page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. If I copy/paste the URL into Internet Explorer it loads just fine. Other times/threads everything loads as I'd expect.

Anyone else seeing this? Solutions as to a fix?

Thanks,

Here's where I pull the "I've owned a 2013 Saint Shadow Plus Derraileur for 4 months now" card and say;
I've tried it, it kind of works, but its definitely not worth you spending your money on buying a product that "kind of works", or trying it to find it doesnt work for you, when there's one that will work infinitely better for the same ching.

Cool - thanks. I'm in the process of building an AM bike and it just sounded really awesome… Not that XT is "bad" by any stretch, but because the shifter is paired with the dérailleur it seemed a natural time to try it out. Or not, as the case may be. I still want to be able to climb anything pretty well so I need that 2nd chainring.

According to everything I've read this is designed as a 1x10 RD. Does anyone know if the cage is too short to be used with a double up front? Tooth restrictions?

I tried the Shimano tech website but all I found was a blow-apart diagram…

Thanks,

I rode it yesterday, and was very impressed.

Perhaps a dumb question given that you were in Whistler, but did you spend any time climbing on it? How pedally is it, say compared to the new 2013 (non-Evo) Enduros that are supposed to climb really well, or the 2012 Enduro Evo?

I demo'ed a 2012 Enduro Evo and thought it was a blast going down - but not that much fun to climb or pedal through rolling singletrack… (mind you, my current bike is a 100mm Titus Racer X so my frame of reference is quite different from that of a shuttle/park/DH guy). I'm looking for a bigger bike to complement the XC race bike but I still want it to be a fun, capable climber.