2018 predictions thread
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I'm pretty sure your 2008 float is already compatible with 27.5 wheels.
And nobody will see that there is a straight steerer tube on it unless you tell them
No, no. It has to have an AI voiced by Gordan Ramsey or Ozzy Osborne.post a video and i'll tell you.
Also, i dont need a video to tell me how ishty i am.
What about Magnetic suspension?
Yep, a good sign that you've gone too far with your "trails for everyone" mantra is when there's guys on CX bikes and kids on skateboards riding them.Same reason why people ride hardtails or single speeds. It is wicked fun.
I blame IMBA and all the 29er XC guys for the increasing numbers of cross/gravel bikes. Sanitizing all trails so that you can ride your wagon wheels on them also makes them suitable for plus sized road bikes.
How do they work?
Wow... the dark side is strong with you guys...and here I thought I was an angry, disgruntled individual.
Predictions for 2018?? Coil suspension forks - more of them. Like others said, Fox will take one of their forks and drop in a coil. Everyone will gizz all over eachother. Meanwhile it will have been an old fork with updated stickers.
KenW449, your comment "I think they should make software that analyzes video of you riding and tells you how isht your are." actually had me laughing out loud.
I don't plan on buying anything in 2018 other than maintenance parts/suspension service.
Predictions for 2018?? Coil suspension forks - more of them. Like others said, Fox will take one of their forks and drop in a coil. Everyone will gizz all over eachother. Meanwhile it will have been an old fork with updated stickers.
KenW449, your comment "I think they should make software that analyzes video of you riding and tells you how isht your are." actually had me laughing out loud.
I don't plan on buying anything in 2018 other than maintenance parts/suspension service.
Call me crazy, but my 2017 Float 36 HSC/LSC is light years better than any fork I had back in 2008. I think your nostalgia is getting the better of you.
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Yepp, Most forks/shocks when compared aren't that good. I remembered my Shiver to be fantastic and when I tried one last year again it didn't really impress me that much. Same thing with the Z1 and a few others I have tried over the years. My Old Z2 Superfly from 98 is a different story. Still the best xc fork I owned (still do in perfect condition) 63mm of the smoothest suspension you ever ridden.
2018, bike industry will continue to infuriate and disappoint, although spending time in the woods with friends building and riding will continue to be awesome.
that will be cool when i start riding a 4 wheeler on the mtb trails and don't have my body available to stabilize itself and its head.
Bingo
Go fast enough over any speedbump and it will be smooth.
Why couldnt we before?
because people are sensitive? Because the internet was different place back in 1997?
Back to the point, I think we're in the renaissance of bad ideas. You can sketch whatever you want on a napkin and then turn it into a bike now, and people are super excited about it. I just read about the insolent DH on pinkbike...here's a bike that takes the replaceable, easily adjustable, swappable if you don't like it damper unit out of a frame, and replaces it with a stressed, unique, low ratio damper with virtually impossible to replace coils or and integral air spring. It's not like this hasn't been done before (curnutt). It sucked then, it will suck now, even if you make it kashima. Don't get me started on the polygon. Stiction is not our friend, people!
Predictions for 2018? The ebike scene will absorb all the hate and morph into Stay Puft, the marshmallow man, cumzooming everything in his path...
luv dat
my uzzi says hello from the future, where it still destroys 95% of everything around it, although it has a float from 2015-ish
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/sam-pilgrim-signs-with-haibike.html
Since bike companies are corporations and owned by shareholders, they must exhibit "growth".
Bike companies are finding it difficult to exhibit growth in a stale market.
Bike companies have to come up with new stuff to sell to the same people, since they can't seem to attract customers with actual improved product
Bike companies see growth in e-bikes. Not selling new stuff to the same riders, selling new stuff to new riders.
E-bikes will outsell "bio bikes" (heard this stupid term at Eurobike, made me throw up a little in my mouth) by a large margin
Corporate bike companies will abandon bio bikes. Some bike companies will go out of business.
Aluminum frames will come back. More
Since bike companies are corporations and owned by shareholders, they must exhibit "growth".
Bike companies are finding it difficult to exhibit growth in a stale market.
Bike companies have to come up with new stuff to sell to the same people, since they can't seem to attract customers with actual improved product
Bike companies see growth in e-bikes. Not selling new stuff to the same riders, selling new stuff to new riders.
E-bikes will outsell "bio bikes" (heard this stupid term at Eurobike, made me throw up a little in my mouth) by a large margin
Corporate bike companies will abandon bio bikes. Some bike companies will go out of business.
Aluminum frames will come back. More
I'm not an industry iguana, but that sounds pretty far fetched imo. Are saying e-bikes sales will greatly exceed struggle buggy sales in terms of percent growth from the previous year or that they will actually straight up out sell them? If it's the former, then meh, that won't be too surprising. I'd also be surprised if any of the big guys drop struggle buggies altogether, although it won't matter to me since I won't be buying anything from them anyway. And while I'd personally like to see more high quality alloy frames built, it seems like more and more manus are offering plastique and dropping alloy frames altogether.
Although that's part of it, it's more elemental than that. In capitalism, someone will always come along that can do what you do, but do it better, faster, more efficiently, and so on. Unless you truly exist in a niche, which is much more rare than those that think they are in a niche are aware of, you have to innovate, get into new markets, invent new markets, invent new processes, and so on, to keep yourself in business. The corporate way is a great way to absolve of responsibility and put the shareholder's interests above the employees and service being provided, but just business in general can be cut-throat and the companies that sit on their laurels doing the same exact thing that they've always done simply have it coming when they get killed off. Look at Niner. when they started, they were doing something different. Everyone thought "ew, niner bikes, no one will ever buy those, it's such a limited market", so they made it their niche, which worked for a while, until every major manufacturer had a full line of "niner" bikes, well in excess of what Niner was making. So then what does Niner have left? Nothing, they have nowhere to go.
i dig this tire as much as anyone but let's be real here. never going to happen. DH is out, E words are in. companies make what they can sell a bunch of. throw a maxxis DH tube in this tire and viola - 1500g WR2 DH version. the width is fine for the everyman.
It seems to go that way for at least the volume brands in Europe. The bike mags write that the sale of high-end bikes is seriously impacted by eMTBs and most of the industries' R+D money goes towards the latter. So I guess the market up to the starting price of eMTBs will be the same, but above that they will just give their models new colors for the next years and focus on eMTBs.
That said, there are also rumors that some new serious aluminum frame production capacity is build up in Europe to be able to produce closer to the market and react quicker to changing trends. I guess the long lead times in Asia are the main reason for that?
Another trend, mainly on the road side, seems to be that carbon frame production in Europe is up. Maybe companies are finally sick of seeing their newest bike 3 months later as 1/2 priced copy from abroad.
I believe they will be prevalent on eBikes in 3 years.
(Note: I am not contradicting you and I do realize that your statement is still valid since Prevalent on eBikes = Dead to jonKranked.)
I should clarify that my comment was intended to address Serious Mountain Biking ™. We all already know that e-bikes and their ilk = kill list.
IP laws in ASPAC are, in general, a joke. Counterfeiting isn't an issue limited to the bike industry.
Naw, I had that fork till 2014 and only recently sold it. It was a protune job and was pretty stellar. I have a 2016 36 Float now as well, it's ok. A bit harsh off the top but all in all it's a good fork.
And yes Kidwoo. Deal. With. It.
2018: people still take forums too seriously.
that "hill" is the highest elevation around here and the reason i only ride my cyclocrosser these days
FML
