This is what's wrong with The Industry™
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There's a market for top end, and those companies are going to capitalize on it; because if they don't someone else will. Bear in mind, these companies are going to do way more sales volume on bikes under $1000.
I'm not saying your wrong, but yes all these new niches are bike companies looking to "expand growth" to "new customers".
Ah my point wasn't just about growth or selling more expensive bikes, but more to do with a shift in business model as it becomes more and more common to use finance on these purchases rather than buy outright. Once a shop realizes they're making a new revenue stream through finance commissions, you can see why they get excited about e-bikes. They'll be selling more $8K e-bikes than $8K race MTBs.
the underlying driver behind this is the same - making more money in even more questionable ways.
First Ride: Trek's New Supercaliber XC Race Bike - Pinkbike
The 2020 Supercaliber has 60mm of rear travel and a unique IsoStrut suspension design.
BOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHHOO
ISO-NOPEFirst Ride: Trek's New Supercaliber XC Race Bike - Pinkbike
The 2020 Supercaliber has 60mm of rear travel and a unique IsoStrut suspension design.www.pinkbike.com
BOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHHOO
as much as i hate proprietary stuff, as a pure XC race bike this makes sense. one of the reasons is because of short track racers have to use the same bike for XCC as for XCO, and it's not uncommon where a bike for one event (hardtail vs full suss) would be advantageous for one event but not the other. this seems to be sort of a middle ground.First Ride: Trek's New Supercaliber XC Race Bike - Pinkbike
The 2020 Supercaliber has 60mm of rear travel and a unique IsoStrut suspension design.
BOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHHOO
The gravgrav of the mtb world.
flexing seat stays ?
That actually belong in the "whats right with the Industry thread". That launch video took the piss out of launch videos and summed it all up nicely at the end.First Ride: Trek's New Supercaliber XC Race Bike - Pinkbike
The 2020 Supercaliber has 60mm of rear travel and a unique IsoStrut suspension design.
BOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHHOO
• Price as shown: $9,500 USD
• Frame only: $3,700 USD
down with this sort of thing I say!
• Frame only: $3,700 USD
down with this sort of thing I say!
e-balance bikes?
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I'd pay 3,703.50 for a coil shock version.
not a bad idea! or you could just fix the fuckin' seat angle
Get ready for 1.8“ steerer:
Industry: You need 29er bikes to go downhill and roll over things.
Industry: We no longer make double crown forks.
Industry: You will need a 1.8 steerer for the axle-to-crown length that spans the length of the Mississippi.
That's Bianchi. The last time they did something interesting in regards to bicycles Il Duce was still reigning over the peninsula.
Let's make crappy motorbikes but pretend they're bicycles.
the shit marco pantani was shooting up with was pretty interesting
plus they used to make canfields
Looks even worse in person, and the rear lights integrated into the seat stays aren't even pictured. On top of that, they are the second Italian company calling their e-bike an SUV.e-suv. le wut?
Looks even worse in person, and the rear lights integrated into the seat stays aren't even pictured. On top of that, they are the second Italian company calling their e-bike an SUV.
"e-SUV Adventure is equipped with integrated front, side and rear lights"Looks even worse in person, and the rear lights integrated into the seat stays aren't even pictured. On top of that, they are the second Italian company calling their e-bike an SUV.
I've been patiently waiting to use this for quite some time...
Well played sir, well played...
is that a schwinn homegrown?
Great post Jackalope. As a Clydesdale rider, in my experience headsets are much more the problem on long travel single crowns than the 1.5" steerer.I've been patiently waiting to use this for quite some time...
On my aluminum megatrail build I tried both the high end cane creek and a chris king headset, and the front end felt like a noodle with both. I ended up using the 1.5" Pig DH headset for the lower, and kept the chris king for the upper. The pig has bearing balls bigger than .177" bb's and made the front end of the bike super stiff. Its like cheap viagra for you fork!
Note to industry - can we please have headsets with roller bearings arranged in a cone shape instead of ball bearings? Then we could have the stiffness of the Pig DH without the huge weight penalty. Please?
i remember wanting one of those when that bike came out.
sram will only make 1.79999999999
