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I'm sure this bike is rad, but I think you can get the same feeling from a hard tail, but even more so. Less maintenance, cheaper, and better looking, too.

If you guys need proof readers, I'll read for carbon wheels.

I love my process 134.

They should have kept making it, just added a gearbox, and made a special water-bottle to sell with the frame to silence the whingers.

You should totally do that!

You could also put a single speed set-up on a non-zerode bike and do some park laps as another unsprung/sprung comparison.

My experience was Zero drag when coasting. Unnoticeable drag in the climbing gears, especially compared to a dirty 1x system. Noticeable drag when in the hard gears descending.

I spent a day on one at Galbraith, and was super impressed. It was the first rain of the fall, and everything was pretty slick, but the traction was amazing. I really want one. In 10 years, when my kona finally dies, I'll probably be able to get a used one cheap.

I also didn't really notice any drag in the drive-train, except when I was pedaling hard descending to add a little speed before a jump. The shifting seemed pretty seamless to me, it only took me about an hour to get used to it, and the added benefit of being able to shift the whole range at once was pretty great. The 35 lb number scared me a bit, but my legs didn't feel any worse after my standard evo-uline-a-dog-mullet-cheech&chong-sst lap than they usually do (read - very very very tired).

In short, I was totally sold, except for the having the funds part.

Looks rad. Definitely reinforces the ridiculousness of how rich the mountain bike community is, though.

For me, more technical, challenging trails, are actually more fun than easier ones. Going fast on an easy flow trail is awesome, but not nearly as awesome as sending a new feature that you've walked around several times, and having it feel easy.

They look identical to the hope bearings. I wonder if hope just rebrands them. If they do, I've been running them for a couple of years with my hope 30mm cranks, and they seem to be ok.

I feel like it should be illegal to release a video that doesn't identify the trails.

Watching him corner is always awe inspiring.