7 Bikes From Peaty's Steel City DH 2018

 Exactly what I was thinking that Marin is fugly

 Move aside Ellsworth. Marin is stealing your shtick.

 @allballz:

"It's now how you stand by your car, it's how you race your car"

But yeah, that Marin is filthy.

 It’s more like a bell curve. But yeah, @allballz do you even own a bike?

 @allballz: MBUK said it was shit due to slightly outdated geometry and massive pedal kickback.

 @taquitos: i guess sooner or later we will have an article on the ugliest bike in the planet

 @kilazilla: cdale raven

 @OldSkoolAK: Redalp dh

 @allballz: Its 2018 l expect both. Its ridiculous not too by now.

 @allballz: I completely agree with you but if you read around the Marin isnt amazing anyway. Compare it to a hightower LT its less pretty and less functional than the hightower.

 @Eviljaxx123: but it wins races.

 @taquitos: Thats going a little too far.

 That wolf ridge just gave me exploding diarrhea.

 Yeah but why would I want that when I can buy a tracer hats function and form @allballz:

 not quite, the cotic looks like a piece of scaffolding

 @fecalmaster: I would have expected you to have more mastery of you feces

 @jaycubzz: no, that's a robot bike, which is scaffolding...

 "Brown Trout"
Now that's an interesting scheme.

 I agree, apart from the Cotic looks like it has been made from a field gate. The Intense Tracer is definitely the best looking bike there.

 @kitchin: its not ugly its just abstract

 That brown trout bike looks like crap...

 What about disturbing animals?

 Violence begets more violence. Too much of that already. Take a deep breath, let it pass.

 Sounds like someone is jelly they don't have industry nine @mallowpufft:

 @RedRedRe: If an animal is still on the trail by the time your smelly, heavy breathing self has arrived on your tire rumbling, freehub screaming bike, it either deserves to be crushed or it's a bear waiting to deliver the smack down on you. Either way a speaker won't change the situation, except you might get mauled to death with dubstep playing in the background

 I was just introduced to this on my local trails the other day. 3 douchebags blasting dubstep as they drop in - and they weren't even fast.

 Scares the bears away....

 @Fix-the-Spade: lol

 @JohanG: That was such a retarded ass statement. The U.S military protects only ONE thing. Profits for Lockheed, Boeing, Exxon, etc. Turn that brainwash box off and go ride your bike.

 @Fix-the-Spade: I sometimes have to shout at the deer on night rides as they don't seem to react fast enough? I guess they just see bright lights and have no idea what's coming. I hate clicking hubs though. Dubstep might be the soloution, or perhaps I could just play some recording of a loud clicky freehub?

 If you are hanging out at the bottom of a descent and waiting for your friends it is incredible how much noise bikes make when they make their way down hills. But no matter how loud it is a loud hub makes a big difference and for me I'd rather make a deafening buzz all day then surprise a bike

 I would rather listen to someone's tunes coming down the trail than a ding ding ding christmas bell.

 Those chinese rotors are sold by many brands... reverse and superstar the first i can think of. Superstar sells them for quite less money.

 Was gonna say that but you got there first! Or is it a FlareMax running standard not plus 650b tyres??

 @ollypack: Its a Rocket for sure. Its got the 27.5 Helm on it.

 it's speakerlized

 www.highlandbikes.com/2911/products/outdoor-tech-buckshot-wireless-bluetooth-speaker-black.aspx

One of these pal

 Plenty people riding them though, two of our team mates riding YT Tuesdays ????

 @deeofscrewlooseracing: Tuesday?

 Too ess. Not tuesdays @deeofscrewlooseracing:

 It’s the design language of the cranks themselves, not shoe rub. The cranks are polished on the convex bulge where you would experience rubbing instead of anodized. Not sure why they did this because it makes a brand new crank look worn from day one.

 Ikr @Trudeez:

 @Trudeez: That's a weird thing to do, because this wise man once said "It makes a brand new crank look worn from day one."

Thanks for the info.

 New Wild Enduro Front.

 There’s a few over there. Order direct at www.cotic.co.uk

 Why should it? The bike is in the heaviest gearing without any weight on it. The chain should be long enough to be able to bottom out in the lightest gearing (you know, on those very rough climbs). Agreed, not a common scenario but this is how long a chain should be. And the cage spring should be strong enough to keep the chain in place through this full range (until the lower chain meets the guide pulley, as we see here). So yeah, this should be just good enough.

I don't have that bike, but back when I was riding with two rings in front, I also used the shortest cage rear mech and made sure that the chain was long enough so that if I'd shift big-big there'd be no damage. Obviously it would be too slack when I'd accidentally shift small-small but there would be no damage so no big deal. I'd rather run it like that than get a rear mech with a longer chain.

 @vinay: true idk how much chain growth that Enduro has. And it has a top guide. Bummer how a RD's spring tension is weakest when you're in the go-fast gears and most likely to be bombing through chain-throwing chunder.

 @WoodenCrow: Not sure. Indeed the heavier gear (on a 1x type drivetrain), the more the spring is deformed and the harder it pulls back. But it is actually when the cage is vertical where the chain has most leverage. Especially with these huge cages required for wide-ratio cassettes, I'd say this is not to be neglected.

 Err..what?

 Who’s complaining? Not this Tracer owner.

 We can't have nice things because intense makes the nicest bike? Well I have two soooo

 Wait what's that now?

 Cotic is first bike shown.

 Fox Head Inc (clothing) and Fox Racing Shox (suspension) are separate companies. I think he's supported by one, but not the other.

 This was published before the race. There’s a link to the results on the “photo epic” page.