Glenngineer

@naptime: came to the comments for this.

This is the only acceptable headset cable routing.

+1. I almost bought one, but the geo seemed too radical for my trails/riding. Now... looks fantastic. Rear end is still quite long, but I've REALLY come around to long chainstays.

His youtube channel is one of my favorites for the gym... I can listen to him talk forever, and the content is fun to glance at between sets, without being the kind of thing you have to pay complete attention.

Intend stuff is so damn cool. Biggest hang up I have isn't the price, it's price plus fears of serviceability. I DO service my suspension, and I worry that a low volume product coming out of Europe (I'm in the US) might be tough to support. Dropping big cash on a fork that is going to feel like shit in a year because I can't get the right orings/gliderings/seals, etc, isn't appealing.

Orange lowers in that red intense is a crime against eyes.

Love my bikeyokes. I four posts and roughly 6 years now, the only hiccup I've had is the main bushing under the wiper seal some how got a piece of grit lodged in it, scored the stanchion over he course of a ride. Quick rebuild and clean out, stanchion is scratched but the post is rock solid. I did stray to Wolftooth for a build last summer... it's a nice post, and it's debatably even easier to rebuild, but it's nowhere near as smooth. The five year old post I run on my fat bike that has seen slush and salt and really terrible riding conditions is still smoother, and I've never cracked into the cartridge. Bikeyoke for life is what I'm saying.

When I was a kid I went to a BMX clinic, and they took my 11 year old, arch over spindle pedaling ass and made me pedal ball over spindle. On flats, because this was BMX in the 90s. I got used to it, never looked back. A few years later got into MTB, went SPD full time and did that for the next 15+ years. More recently, I do spend more time on flats, especially on my Stooge, but am sort of just liking that vibe. Knolly is still on SPDs, M8020s I think. I used an old pair of shoes to try to get used to the trendier, more rearward cleat position... but I couldn't get used to it.. gave it a solid 100 trail miles. Made my legs feel shorter, definitely changed the dynamics of pedaling and absorbing hits with my lower legs in particular, and made it feel like I shrunk the reach of my bike in the wash... standing up, the bars were just... closer. I could probably make it work... but why? I'm on my normal shoes in my normal clear roughly under the ball of my foot position, ride my flats the same way, and am rocking and rolling... works for me.

@BermJunky: Great lights, and that mount looks a lot cleaner than the current one... Really cool, non stock ano on that I9 stem, too.

All the links and a single pivot axle path... seems like a lot of complexity for a glorified single pivot. Probably rides fine, but wouldn't be on my list.