New Enduro Bikes, an EWS Book, Handmade Carbon Fiber & More - Tech Briefing, March 2018

 Perhaps it's a highly technical paintjob. Or perhaps it's not a technical brief as much as it technically is a series of brief ads...

 They paid for space...

 @MTBlegand @AutumnMedia Fair point that a new paint job maybe shouldn't have been included, but it was a bit of a slow month for tech to be honest. Just to be clear: Pivot isn't paying for placement, and we label sponsored stories.

 @brianpark: Away wtih you and your facts.

 constant bitching about 'new standards' or 'changes common too fast/ruining resale'. Here Pivot keeps it the same, more bitching. Can't win on Pinkbike

 @g-42: Perhaps the new paint is 28.99nm thick.

 @endlessblockades: this is a clever comment #DUB

 carbon just isnt sexy.

 hahaha

 It's not Pivot's fault they ordered 23550 gallons of blue paint and 23550 gallons of red instead of 2355 gallons of each! Gotta use it up before it goes bad!!

 Like you can see in some ebikes most resonable thing is to keep freewheel as it is, just add that crankset, the result is awesome.. you can see your chain moving only when pedaling... thats nice for trial moves!

 This is an old and failed idea. Drop your chain and things get ugly fast. Ratchet friction at the front has to be appropriately balanced with derailleur spring tension at the back, otherwise the top run of the chain gets slack.

 I'd guess there's a lot of extra drag since it's basically a fixed gear and when you coast your momentum keeps the chain moving and turning the cassette/chainring. I'm not sure how much sprung weight you're really removing when all you've done is replace the freewheeling mechanism in the hub. You still have that big cassette back there. I'm pretty sure I saw a video of this system and when the rear wheel was coasting (the bike was in a stand) the cranks started turning so there's clearly some inherent drag in the system.

 The should just say in the press release they'll be on CRC for half the price....

 I was just thinking yesterday that 500$US was a LOT of money for a single crown suspension fork ~20 years ago. I know as much as anybody how far the tech has advanced since then, but still. Man. More than twice the money these days for something decent. Are we having twice the fun? Hmmm

 @DavidSA: no, its called inflation. Everything in the world minus wages in the U.S have inflated.

 @DavidSA:
2001 Civic Type-R - ~£16/17k.

2017 Civic Type-R - £31k+.

My top spec DH fork back in '06 was £700. That barely gets you a decent single crown these days.

Tech improvements and inflation have a cost across the whole consumer market.

 @DavidSA:

>Are we having twice the fun? Hmmm

are you buying fun or new better features?
also inflation

 @gibbon-on-an-orange: Mattoc is £350 on crc so...

 @DavidSA: To be fair, $500 twenty years ago is more like $800 today, and then there's the increasing complexity of the forks. We all know today's $1k forks are leaps and bounds ahead of the old top-end stuff.

 @gibbon-on-an-orange: You can't really compare the 2001 and 2017/18 Civic, now it's grown almost 0.5 meters and got 50% more power. If you compare the new and 10 years old VW Golf GTI the price is maybe 20% up.
But for the cycling tech you can see the prices going up with each new generation.