Josh Lewis Signs with SCOR

 No - least of all the switch from Burgtec to Deity

 @aljoburr: I think maybe you need to go back and read what happened - none of it was black and white.

 @thingswelike: I have missed this having been away from the MTB press/Soc media for a while, but had noticed the changes to the 50/10 riders recently. What has gone down here? Has there been a rift?

 @nickkk: I don't think so, no

 @thingswelike: ah right, cheers. Great crop of riders.

 I saw he was in my hometown last week so was sure he will go to scor. Was Scor or Bold cycle... pretty obvious haha

 @nickkk: I don’t think there’s necessarily any drama. Just PON changing the way Santa Cruz does things - not renewing contracts and deals with a lot of folk who’ve been under the brand in previous times.

 @ThomDawley: cheers. They never struck me as a crop of riders who'd cause any trouble off the bike. I wondered earlier if something had happened though, reading the above. I'm not as across MTB movers and shakers as I once was!

 They are shifting focus to the middle management middle aged bracket for reasons still tbc.

 Do we know where Evans has gone / is going?

 @mackay66: Signed with Airdrop I believe

 Same for me, and then my 4060 frame broke 2 weeks later on Dirt Merchant lol

 Also congrats loose dog

 Frame brand from BMC. See Pinkbike test below:

www.pinkbike.com/news/field-test-2022-scor-4060-st.html

 I mainly know them because my local shop is a distributor. They're really good-looking bikes with a solid price point for the build quality. They have a definite high-end look and feel to them when seen in person, similar to Yeti or Santa Cruz.

 @Hogfly: A better deal too

 @bman33: Are they connected to BMC, or did the employees that started the project leave to spearhead this?

 @ScandiumRider: They are still owned by BMC, from everything I know. BMC dealers still sell the frames/bikes, which is where I picked mine up.

 It's the same scenario with Canyon in Canada. A lot of Canadians on the product

 I think the linkages can be altered/ replaced to make a 27.5 set up as well.

 Yeah that bike looks great for jibbing

 Wouldn't exactly be surprising if the internals were simply the equivalent Fox parts. Feel free to correct, but they can be fitted, can't they?

 @mountainsofsussex: definitely it is possible to put a grip2 damper into Z1 (seen on coil version)

 I’ve wondered that myself. I honestly doubt there’s a grip2 in the fork or anything drastically different in the rear shock. Maybe some custom tuning to the stock dampers either right or away or down the road after he’s spent time on them. Different shim stack, etc. Could also see them literally just sending him the stuff as is and expecting him to figure it out. I ride a Z1 air, and honestly think the grip damper is perfectly adequate and well tuned internally. It’s the only suspension product (front or rear) that I use that I spent a great deal of time riding exactly how it was when it showed up; without opening it up and changing things, until I increased the stroke.

I’m honestly surprised Marzocchi, nor Deity have posted anything about sponsoring him yet.

 @mountainsofsussex: I've heard the ID of the stanchions are slightly different between the two brands. I don't think this makes a meaningful difference for the damper side, but air springs probably wouldn't fit.... or at least easily fit.

 @Breeconay: The bomber is the same as the Fox 36 Rhythm. They have thicker stanchions (because it is a different alloy) so you have a different diameter air spring. The dampers interchange and the 36 rhythm/bomber is heavier. Personally I like the grip (1) damper and it sounds like a lot of testers do too.

 @bok-CZ: That's my setup. Decided to swap the damper onto my Z1 coil so I can get something to fiddle with constantly and never be happy about.

 @Maxcycles: so honest

 *4010

 *4020

 Unexpected but maybe not that weird. Loose needed a bike sponsor and it appears that SCOR want some exposure to sell more bikes. It's working because I just heard of them! And if SCOR really is about playing on bikes then it's a good fit. Although the lack of a 27.5 model might suggest otherwise. Voreis made it work at Niner.

 SC is a dead brand

 @Dogl0rd: People on mountain bike forums saying that Santa Cruz is a dead brand is the exact equivalent to people saying the same thing on IT forums about Apple, right?

 Craig Evans too

 @Dogl0rd: well, you do need to see a dentist every once in a while, so I guess it's not dead...

 Just scroll down and click on 'Below threshold threads are hidden'

 That says more about you than it does about them!

 They make a pretty solid set of products.

 Pretty sure it’s not VPP but 4bar.

 It's not VPP, I have one. Really diggning it.

 @HeyBaumeister: VPP is a 4 bar design

 @drakefan705: so can we agree to: every VPP is a 4 bar but not every 4 bar is a VPP