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@peterknightuk: Can’t ba easy for Bruni, of all the seasons, he has to sit out in one where everybody is riding completely inconsistent - the overall would have been a walk in the park for Superbruni.

Don’t tell me you went through all this effort, measuring biacromial width and going through the literature without also measuring arm length?

What exactly would your analysis have been had he not tested the size that Chromag think is perfect for him, but had deliberately selected a different size?

@Bro-LanDog: Well, I still remember the time, when the brand stuff would randomly fail. I had Raceface and Syncros cranks, Rocky Mountain and Kona frames, Mavic wheels, and on one horrible occasion a handle bar suddenly snap. Actually, by comparison, I never found failing brakes to be so bad, normally they do not both go at the same time. With the very first disc brakes it was kind of normal, you would expect to lose one somewhere past mid run and just rely on the other to get you to the line. Quality has gotten so much better, that even the cheapest China stuff off Aliexpress mostly works fine now. Of course, steps like QC might be skipped to realize the lowest price… My main question is, why bother in a day and age where I can get the cheaper lines of the big brands for next to nothing on sale, and those will work perfectly fine. Today’s Deore is better than a fancy Hope from 15 years ago.

I use something that’s basically vegetable oil in all my mineral oil brakes, so, that’s not a contaminant whatsoever. The guys at Trickstuff who are also selling this stuff literally put it on their salad on one occasion. Very much opposed to DOT, where I also had an incident in which it removed the paint from my frame down to the raw aluminum.

Hey, cringe is an established industry standard dating back to the days of the Froriders. YT Mob, Santa Cruz Syndicate, Cnyn Cllctv… fits right in.

@netracer-enduro: And if they want to go down that route, and are also creating discs with a thickness that will not be compatible with existing brakes anyway, the question seems to me if adding surface in radial direction first would not have been the better approach.

As long as Formula 1 cars and MotoGP bikes are totally fine with using 4 piston brakes for decelerating from 300km/h to 80 before a corner, it will be hard to convince anyone that mtbs need 6 pistons. Therefore I’d claim “looking cool af” is still the main selling point here.

Which 32” bike did you ride? I rode a couple of the first 29” bikes back in the day. Total garbage. It took a while, to work out the geometry that worked with the bigger wheels. It will probably be quicker this time, but still a process until everything works. Then I very much doubt anybody will switch back to smaller wheels.

@dirtyburger: The reason there is less technical regulation in off-road than in road cycling is not that the UCI doesn’t care, but that nobody else does. If mtb had the same international attention, there would be the same amount of money going around, and pro teams would spend crazy amounts on marginal gains, just like in road cycling. There, every grey area in the regulation will immediately be exploited to the max. If there were no regulations for road bikes, we would by now see aerodynamic covers, permanently installed yt bars, and people going 80 km/h in the flat. Nothing like that will happen in mtb.