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My prediction... on groomed slopes a regular DH bike will win...

Zero issues for my transfer as well. My reverb needed two rebuilds in the time I have needed none on my transfer.

@kubaner: gumwalls I hope...

@jaame: I would agree if travel was all that matters, but I imagine you know better than that. The Nomad has been ready for an update for a while. Once that finally happens it will be a bit easier to make those kind of comparisons.

A brief story regarding the Bronson: I have a good friend from CA who has been in the bike industry for years. He can and has owned/ridden just about everything you could imagine. He has even owned a number of SCs that in his words "didn't blow his doors off." For our trip to Downieville this year he decided last minute to bring a new Bronson. The whole trip he was raving like a lunatic (which is not his style) about how amazing it was. All I could do was smile and nod. Despite being from the opposite coast, and my home terrain being extremely different, I still have to agree that the Bronson might be the one bike to rule them all regardless of where you choose to do so.

I feel really bad for the "average person" who only rides their bike once a week. Is that really a thing?

@aresiusbe: +1 on this conversion. I did this same thing with a Fox Transfer post. Works great! I imagine you could do this conversion with many levers that normally require a cable head on the lever end. Only tweak I made on this installation: after cutting the cable I loosened the end slightly and pulled the cable so that the sharp metal cable strands are even with the end of the clamp.

Or you can run a small cable collar (google KS cable collar) on any lever that normally would require the cable head on the lever end. I am currently using this configuration with a Fox Transfer and the KS lever. Zero issues.

I have a theory about tubeless tire flats due to wide rims based on my personal experience. With wider rims, when you DO pinch, it is in the thinner sidewall area of the tire which is sure to cut the tire. In the past, on narrower rims, when you pinched it was in the tread area of the tire. That meant more tire thickness in the pinch area, which meant less likelihood to flat. Is it possible narrower rear rims are in everyone's future? I don't know the answer, but Mavic has been taking that stand for a few years now...

Goosebumps felt around the world!