Bluefire

I've seen two Voimas this year in SoCal, a gold one and a silver one. Just at regular local trail networks. I was shocked to see the first one but even more shocked to see a second one so soon after.

@scrawnydog: "super efficiently" - thanks for the laugh. The way a v-brake locks a wheel is brutal, indifferent, and viscerally satisfying. Trickstuff could never.

@thenotoriousmic: I'm sorry you've had issues with Centerlock, and I know many others have too. But I still think there's no obvious winner, and I think there's room in the market for both options. You're right that Centerlock CAN have all of those issues, and that 6-bolt doesn't. But Centerlock has things people might want, that 6-bolt can't provide: quicker, easier swaps, universal compatibility, and yes, cleaner looks (at least with the internal spline lockrings for road bikes). And in reality, most people don't and won't have an issue with Centerlock. There should be a follow-up poll to see what % of people have. I wonder why Pinkbike is running this poll in the first place. They tend to pose a question like this right before a relevant new product comes out.

@thenotoriousmic: I've put my hands on thousands of bikes. I've had bad lockrings snap, and I've had bad bolts snap. I've had cheap lockrings round off or strip, and I've had cheap bolts round off or strip. 6-bolt has redundancy, but that redundancy makes swapping wheelsets more laborious. Centerlock requires tighter tolerances that agree with each other, but I feel that's more about quality parts and adherence to standards, not bad design. I've never seen either one back out on the trail and I've never had an issue with Centerlock rotor play, though I realize others have. To me, there's always the question mark of proper setup, like with pressfit BBs. For what it's worth, my mountain bikes are all 6-bolt, and I chose 6-bolt in the poll. I like the simplicity, like you, and I don't swap wheels these days. But I don't think it's bad to have both options in the market. As far as I know, Centerlock isn't killing people.

You need an "I don't care" option on that poll. Each standard has equal advantages and disadvantages - I think they come out even. I wouldn't (and haven't) avoided a wheelset because it meant I would have to change rotor standards. I also haven't had the opportunity to choose between JUST rotor standards for otherwise identical wheelsets. For a road bike, Centerlock looks cleaner, especially with the smaller rotors. So if only one standard had to survive, for all disc brake bikes, it would be Centerlock. But functionally, there's no clear winner.

I'm one of the few who's fine with thru-headset cable routing on my own bike, but even I'm baffled by this arrangement. It seems messier, not cleaner - it's impossible to ignore cables sprouting from the middle of the handlebar. They're front and center. At least with Scott's system, or others that exit below the bar, careful trimming can hide the cables under the handlebar. If you're not even getting a cleaner look, I struggle to see what this accomplishes.

Soft launch of updated 1200-level DT mountain wheels? Any other info?

I wouldn't buy a bike without remote lockout, unless I had a way of adding it. I owned a bike without it for four or five years, and I never stopped missing remote lockout. My next bike had it and it was cathartic. I've had it on bikes from 100mm travel to 150mm travel. I would love to see the correlation between how often someone uses the climb switch and how often they stand while climbing - or even how much they like climbing. I love climbing, technical or otherwise, and I use my lockout remote about half as often as I use my shifter, on every kind of terrain, from smooth fire roads to Sedona. I don't think it's about power or speed - I think it's about pedal stability while standing and cranking on the bars, and it makes climbing more satisfying regardless of whether you save watts or seconds doing it. What a dropper post is to descents, a remote lockout is to climbs... for me, anyway. If people's primary complaint about climb switches is "I forget to turn it off", that's just a symptom of them not using it much in the first place. That's not a problem with climb switches.

Not the shock, but I know the push-button lockout on older Leftys did this.

That last long shot was so lush... perfect ending, with the tires and pedals sliding out of frame and the gravel settling back into place. Can't imagine the forethought it takes to put that together in real-time.