Bike Check: Comparing Isabeau Courdurier and Adrien Dailly's Lapierre Spicys - EWS Zermatt 2020

 G2 =/= Guide, fwiw. My G2s have outperformed every Guide I've ever owned so far.

 @seraph: so they are now actually braking? cool.

 Amateurs brake, pros scrub speed.

We haven’t even got proper mountains where I live and everyone thinks they need 200mm and 4-pistons.

 @Mondbiker: I've actually not had any issues with G2 or Guide, but the G2s have a little bit better braking performance overall. As a mechanic, the only Guides I've had to warranty have been OEM models, and I've only ever bought my Guides aftermarket.

 @seraph: how many of the warrantied and bought ones were R, RS or RSC?

 @Jcolis1904: There´s also reason why rally/rallycross cars indeed do lock up wheels. But if you only ride on the road, sure, locking up wheels is not needed.

 @Mondbiker:
Yeah locking up your back tire is really effective in MTB, nothing like breaking a tire loose to show that corner or steep descent whose boss.

 Probably a 203mm in the front, and 180mm in the back.

 Im still a huge fan of Lapierre.

Their DH bikes (Had the 722) ride insanely good.

I bet their other bikes do aswell

 @NotNamed: I want a 727 so bad, I think it's such a great looking DH bike. I'll have one one day. I'd easily own a Lapierre trail/enduro bike if they offered them in Canada.

 How about the tire labels not being lined up with the valve stems!?

 Ya it's too bad they printed something on the actual bolt because you have to go with torque specs and so are left without a choice where that ends up. I'd replace with a blank bolt for sure.

 @islandforlife: yep it would be switched out no question.

 Looking at her riding, she likely needs the Zeb more than I do at 90kg...

 Yes

 This!

 For the WC DH race in South Africa and maybe also for the 2009 World Championships in Australia, racers were experimenting with dropper posts and I think there also were lockouts. Not sure when they dropped spandex for World Championships DH though. First racers were obliged to wear it at the Worlds, then it was banned altogether. So maybe spandex and lockout actually swapped places in DH. First skin suit obligatory at the Worlds but no lockout in sight. Then suddenly quite the opposite. I actually think the remote thing makes sense. If you're going to use the lockout, rather have the possibility to switch it off when you realize just before that rockgarden than to reach down when you'd rather have your hands on your grips.

 Do you wake up from a 10 years rest?

 I think it does make a lot of sense in some situations. I had heard, though, that the early TwistLoc was pretty unreliable. Is that still the case? (asking for a friend)

 Actually, to my knowledge Shaun Palmer had a remote lockout on his Intense M1 coil shock back in the late 90s.

 Still waiting for fox to give me a X2 lockout on bars ... hint hint

 if you follow EWS since the start, Jerome Clementz used remote lock out on every Cannondale he used since 2013 in Punta Ala...boom...there you have

 @elyari: had a lot of time of the Jekyll with lefty during some demo’s
fantastic bike, crazy light & agile

 The GT Sanction (Dan Atherton and a young Martin Maes) initially came out with a Fox DPX with a remote lockout.

 Every time I put my shock in "climb", I regret it and always put it back. Unless you are standing up the pedal bob is minimal. Only time I do standing climbing is in a tech section when I really don't want the rear end locked.

Of course, my XC bike is the total opposite, with a remote lock on the fork, and no suspension in the back at all.

 Yes. It can pair to your head unit and then all of that data is connected with the RockShox AXS app which gives insight on time in gears, power output, tire pressure, etc.