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Who cares what they do. They are having fun while you are getting your short liners in a freakin twist. Just ignore them if you can't stand the idea of riding an ebike. You'll just have to accept they are here to stay.

@freestyIAM: I was always under the impression that Canadians didn't like to be referred to as North American so as to set themselves apart from teh US. Bit the same with the state of Queensland here. They hate to be lumped in with the others states.

@hayden19: but that's no different to euro's having a huge advantage when the races are in Europe or the North Americans/Canadians (oh, they'll hate being lumped together) when racing there. Familiarity with trails no matter where you go makes a big difference. One big advantage we have here though is we can train through the off season being our summer and be fast first round. It's always a long season of racing though. Definitely seeing more notherners coming south for their winter with both NZ and now Australia being a great place for them to train through the off season as well. The level of EDR is going to increase quite a bit over the next few seasons I feel.

LMS looks the most dialed in the videos I've seen. Gilly would be a good pick too. That kid is fit as feck on a flatter course than Maydena.

@skiwenric: dry lube could be painful

because Shimano never developed ramped sprockets/chamrings and assymetrical chains or trigger shifters or STI road levers or Di2 or hollow forged cranks etc. etc.etc. This time round SRAM got in and designed it first. Guaranteed Shimano will have product out to suit in the next 12 months.

Anybody who thinks that Shimano is going to make a derailleur that won't bolt up to the same interface as what SRAM designed, I'm sorry but the sky is not falling on your heads. SRAM designed that interface between derailleur hardware and frame to be as basic as it can and made it availble to use for anybody. They only asked for a licence agreement if you wanted to use the UDH branding in your marketing etc. It's basically a Dia 20 x12.5mm wide hole with some clearance around it that anybody can design too. Literally anybody can use. Shimano aren't stupid. You can see from the drawings already that they are going to use those same dimensions for their direct mount. .....and frames aren't going to break. There is a huge amount of material in that set up that by teh time a frame breaks you have more to worry about. The hanger inteface has had it's day and was a impedence to making drivetrains shift better. We now have a drive train that shifts under full load and is going to take one hell of a beating before it becomes a problem. It's not cheap now but all that tech will be used in lower priced componenets in time. Not ready for a new frame for a while. Go and buy a couple replacment derailleurs of your current flavour and stick them in the cupboard. Cars literally change every model with not much interchangability yet no ones jumps up and down about it. These guys are literally improving the bike in a big way and everyones shrieking like little girls that lost their puppy.

@vinay: haha. Wouldn't want to get that popcorn ready and it's all over.

I don't get it. Why does autoplay suck?

@Simann: yeah I can see on say a DH race bike being useful. Have a stack and damage a lever or somehow a calliper and if you had a quick connect just near either of those componenets you could just swap them out quickly in the pits and not have to do a full bleed. Maybe just a quick top up. Then again full external routing you just swap out the complete set and done.