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Yeah Chase!

But this is an enduro bike, and enduro is the #1 growing discipline for dads in their 40s with money to burn.

I read something else somewhere, "mountain bikes are more expensive than ever"

Yuri's a fun name, would make a good headstone. "RIP Yuri, fell off a cliff riding his bike."

Can't say I feel to much sympathy for them. They should have realized that their target market is teenagers and young adults, and they can't afford to spend $400 on a helmet camera.

Go to bed Cam, you're drunk

Does it come in 36+?

It's cool to see more bikes built for aggressive riding without chainguides. I have a feeling clutch derailleurs will completely replace guides on all but race bikes over the next few years.

To be honest I'm pretty happy these got a bad review, because I talked a lot of shit about them when they were first created

Much of this argument only holds true if you assume every LBS is a race organizing, trail funding, bike demo-ing, and generally angelic business. The fact of the matter is many (or in my experience, most) bike shops just suck.

I used to work at a major bike shop chain in the Northeast. They dealt Trek and Specialized, as well as some smaller companies. Despite being a major shop, the most you could demo one of their bikes was by just riding it around the parking lot. And that was only if they had it in stock-most of the time the bike you wanted would have to be special ordered, and if you did that you had to commit to paying for it before you even could touch it.

Most bike shops are like this. They cannot afford to have every model they sell in stock or for demo, so if you want it you have to pay at least a significant deposit before they'll order it for you. And if you demo it and decide you don't want it, they're stuck selling what is now a used bike.

It's time to cut high-end bike sales out of the bike shop.