zacjob

No O-Chain makes sense given how high the idler is above the main pivot.

Half the men got robbed.

Sounds like a great setup. This is where the industry needs to go. Maybe Forbidden chainstays would satisfy your needs?

A few years ago, Pinkbike articles were talking about the next generation of bikes having longer chainstays to catch up with the long, low, and slack modern geometry front ends. A few botique brands did adopt this, but it never really made it to mainstream. If anything, mainstream bike chainstays are trending shorter again (probably because people can't manual their super long reach bikes). This is disappointing. I ride my modern geo bike with a 20mm stack bar (to minimize geo effect from bar roll) and a few stem spacers. Overall, it's a middling combined height. I'd love to go much higher to put more weight into my feet and reduce my hand pain, but any higher and I lose front tire grip. I even steepened the head angle on my enduro bike to counteract this. If the bikes chainstays were even just 10mm longer, the bike would be so much more balanced even with higher bars.

None of those build kit marketing photos show the Maven brakes that are listed.

Stoked that CEL is back. Enduro is for the people.

All (most) of the above. A new bike is such a big cost that there would need to be multiple categories achieved with the new bike. i.e. better geometry, better components (new Deore might be better than old XTR), new technology, and the old bike needs to much maintenance (reduces the price differential).

I said high flow valves are too expensive but the real issue is lack of distribution. It's a minor part that I typically ignore until there's a problem. Then I need something quickly and none of the local bike shops carry any high flow options so I just replace with the same old crappy presta.