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Pinkbike Took Me To Whistler - Sunday Comics with Taj Mihelich by Tajlucas - Pinkbike
Taj looks back at his recent trip to Whistler and his time at the Pinkbike Field Test.www.pinkbike.com
Found it!
It was in the whistler blog post by Taj Mihelich. Was wondering why I had it bookmarked.
yeti's are known to fail still. a guy that works in my building broke 3 over a 2 year period recently (i'd say '16-'18)
Leo will have to fight our lizard overlords first
Why so serious? If you buy one you might end up with a sweet prototype.
I can't see how it would, just makes the company look like a giant pain in the ass to me. The optics are all wrong...
he's not the brightest bulb
he's certainly smart & aggressive enough to accomplish some pretty neat things for a very young company; someone just needs to put a filter on that ego from from an end user interface standpoint.
I don't disagree with that...but his attitude 100% makes me never interested in remotely considering his products
gotta say I agree w both of you.
Ah PB said they'll reveal the Rocky broke when they publish the review on it so they can provide more context.
That compromises my narrative and hence worldview. So I will not be accepting that.
Apparently the dude that was on it got properly hurt in the crash. Don't know if it was cause-effect on the crash/frame break but I've already got my pitchfork sharpened and torch lit so I'm gonna say the frame actually exploded into a fireball and we should start a witchhunt now.
did you know................rocky mountain tried to sue transition over the tr500,450,250 frames, claming they infringed on those piece of shit RM7,8,9 designs? Regardless of prior art via turner dhr, ventanta cuervo and such.
Why would anyone want to copy a RM7? hahhahahahahahahah
i owned an rm7 for a season. it wasn't a bad bike to ride, and the swingarm remained intact (the 6's were prone to snapping on a regular basis), but the over-leveraged shock hardware and interfaces bent & wallowed out in short order (had to pop can shim the play out), and the front triangle cracked, soooo...
Ok, this is starting out fine: We screwed up.
Wait..what? So you are just talking out your ass? Catastrophic failure vs. failure from a crack is usually pretty easy to tell, so by saying you don't know the actual events, it seriously makes you look like an idiot. Just because something failed at one time doesn't mean that was what started the crack, in fact, it's pretty damn rare for one event to do in a frame, it usually cracks and progresses until it can no longer take the load. It's idiotic to say this and then say "but we don't really know the events".
"We test our bikes by selling them to riders and quickly changing the stuff that breaks...it's a feature!"
Well thank god for that, because I'm sure all the readers were thinking that you wanted to send an XC swingarm on purpose. Bizarre.
You know, they make stuff these days that calculates stresses and tells you what thickness and how much metal to use. This seems a little strange saying that it was developed for no purpose, almost like there's something else going on. Most unsuccessful prototypes are destroyed for this reason.
"It's Pinkbike's fault we screwed up".
"Yep, it's Pinkbike's fault we screwed up."
So pretty much a bad bike.
or a clone?
You missed Karpiel being back?
he had a 29" dh bike floating around recently.
I didn't know the TR series came with a self destruct feature. Neat!
