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Weather took a turn for the worse here and is clearing in Arkansas. Trip is back on🤘

agree on this and also they have the sales/resources to build a placemarker ebike to get that box checked. its still hideous looking though

Think the Gform would be a better choice for trail riding and you can grab them for 10-20% off if you look around.

im all about the trough of disillusionment 😁

You should start posting on pinkbike like you do here.

This. I could always tell what hype was being pushed every time i walked into BSS on lamar and saw whatever was front center on the riser. For a while it was fatbikes, then FS fatbikes then salsa rep showed up with their 27 & 29+ FS bikes telling me that they set new KOMs on strava with these plus bikes *rolls eyes*. Last thing on riser were e-bikes. Now there is no riser and the store is almost half the size it was. Shops are shrinking and dying left and right, so not sure how their strategy is working out for them. There has actually been discussion of the disappearance of the fatbike as it's considered even less practical than a full DH rig. If I still lived in snow country, I might have one to ride with my buddies, but we usually went south to the desert for the winter. friend in ut demonstrating proper usage of a fb

Was at wheatsville on S Lamar this week and they had stillage and a few others on the shelf. TXkeeper hooked up with a distributor a year or so ago and now can be found in HEB, Specs ETC. If you try the stillage, lemme know what you think. Also, if you want some off the shelf boozy goodness, specs has this in stock and it is DAMN good. https://www.holidaywinecellar.com/p-28032-moonlight-meadery-them-little-apples-cider-can.aspx

Nice! We end up there a couple times a month. Have you tried the Stillage yet?

Got it. Size L fits me well and all in all, pretty comfy. Would NOT use this for std trail riding unless they make a SS one.

For sure but once you get into a niche of a nice of a niche market, gross sales cant be that great. Besides, i cannot imagine many bike shops wanting to showroom a lot of $6-7k ebikes with margins and sales being as tough as they are. For me its not a matter of who should or should ride an ebike. I really don't give AF. I think the e-bike riders will sort themselves out when they get the cold shoulder from traditional riders. Ive seen / heard how roadies treat the e-bike guys and its pretty funny and IMHO, justified. To me e-bikes are the fruitboots of the skateboard world. Anytime a person showed up to the park on rollerblades they got heckled from beginning to end.

So much this^ Like a lot of the other trends of late, ebikes will pass once the consumers get a real idea of their "value". Not worth the outlay just to ride the same switchback/ledge nightmares that exist here, only slightly faster.

Picked up some bottles of cider from our local cidery. The Noir is great but this one in particular is even better as they aged it in rum barrels for some boozy goodness. If you're ever in Manchaca, swing by and check em out. http://www.texaskeeper.com/

looks like the 2.6 DHR will fit on project Shoresy after all😎

it's the new 27.5 , fatbike, 27+ and now mullet hypetrain. At least the mullet has a little merit.

those skinwalls look sweet on the build too.

Ah landfill bikes.........someones garbage is another's gold🤣

To add to this, bikeshops are dying on the vine yet the industry is going to somehow push 6-8k ebikes(?) Not sure how this is gonna play out. "50% of SC's catalog being eBikes in 5 years -Rob Roskopp" SC currently has 13 bike models listed on their site and Rob says half will be ebikes in 5 years. That's at a minimum of 1.3 bikes introduced per year moving forward. It took them how long to develop that outdated heckler? 2-3 years.....

It might, and you could certainly be right. I think we're looking outside from a very, very small bubble that is the MTB community. Sure, we on this forum have expensive bikes and also see some carbon whunderbikes on the trail but as a whole i think thats a small fraction of mountain bikes sold. I've seen a growing push to build cheaper aluminum bikes.

It's hard to qualify who should or should not have access to an e-bike. I agree with AustinBike in that this will resolve itself over time. The marketplace can only sustain so many $6-8k e-bikes. The people that have the available cash will buy them first and the others will finance their purchase on a CC. Once that 20+% interest CC payment starts raping them monthly they wont be in any rush to go out and buy another e-bike. You only have to look at the progress of smartphone development to see that most e-bikes will be "obsolete" by the time they are paid off. Lastly, a growing number of americans are leveraged AF and only a fraction of boomer generation got the last of the good retirements that allow for such toys. This is a very, very small segment of the cycling subculture of MTB, and also who I see most on higher end E-mtbs. Once bones meet rocks a few times, they'll most likely find a safer hobby.

I remember seeing that evil during the banduro. Bike is much brighter in the pics than in person. You have to look pretty hard to tell that its camo, so guess it's doing it's job😁

They are 2 years too late on this one. The "we wanted it playful" statement is just an excuse for design constraints trying to shove a motor in the BB and make it all fit with the new VPP. A 29" would probably have stupid long chainstays so they stuck with 27.5 . Not to mention when this was being designed, 27.5 was still hot shit.

"The first sign of the apocalypse" Was released this morning. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Rob looks less than excited for this e-bike release, and levy is failing at trying to make this interview interesting.

Looks like this one is gonna have to wait until the fall. Forecast is rain the entire time we're there and buffalo closes trails when its wet. At least I got my hotel refunded

Damn man. good luck with everything this week

Wife and I had to make trip to san marcos and decided to hit up the new brewery while there. Following Vista's lead, Roughhouse Brewing is definitely a step up in venues for breweries with a great building, outdoor stage , decent food and some tasty beers on tap. Definitely worth checking out if you're in the area and the flight is huge for the $. http://roughhousebrewing.com/ Liked the Ona the most followed by the Sordid and IPA