Brant.

Bring out a steel framed, dual crown compatible, high pivot and idlers, 29 front wheel, 27.5 rear wheel, 180mm and 170mm of front and rear bounce and 500mm of reach, gnarpoon.

Please.

Pretty please.

Build us something **** mental and undercut Nicolai.

The Ass Pounder 4000

Longer, lower, slacker, more expensiverer. More dipsticks dressed like Power Rangers to ride on canal paths. Even more idiots calling their bikes ‘Whips’ and claiming to be ‘stoked’. Honestly, wtf?

Dual crown forks for trail/enduro and e bikes.

E bikes getting real e bike components as more failures are seen of standard components.

I’m looking forward to 12 speed Shimano XT and 27.5” EXO casing Maxxis Assegai

Yep loving workpacking

I think Kona Lava Dome makes sense. Perhaps with short travel forks. We’ll see more and more gravel bikes with 50mm tyres and front suspension

Front baskets for shopacking? Does that need a double “p”

2.7 will be the ultimate compromise mtb tyre size

Oh and £109 being an important price for 2.7 tyres

76 degree seat tube angles. Makes a massive improvement for climbing.

Ebikes on turbo trainers powering dynamos powering ebikes. You’ll be able to do all the cycling you want without needing to step outside or to put in any physical effort.

Stanchions won’t get fatter. No benefit – just more seal drag.

Wireless gearing, droppers and suspension adjust to simplify bars. Maybe a central standard to allow them all to interact (e.g. Samsung smart things)

Trail bikes making a resurgence

Maybe a central standard

LOLZ!!

Personally I’m hoping this drop bar off road thing disappears up its own back end this year. Unless you are John Tomac on a carbon Raleigh USA with a Tioga Disc Drive it’s just wrong.

drop bars off-road isn’t about to disappear given it’s been going on for decades.

Handlebars narrow enough to fit between gateposts.

Front baskets for shopacking? Does that need a double “p”

Basketpacking is already a thing..

It would be good to see gearbox bikes do better. It would be nice to have a lifetime geartrain rather than the disposables we now have dangling off the rear of the bike.

I can see someone coming out with a bike with 1.95” tyres and flat bars and a lightweight frame and non-slack geo (basically the next step on from that gravel bike nonsense) and not a single person noticing it’s basically a 1994 Kona Lava Dome.

That’s exactly what I wanted my Salsa El Mar to be but with bigger wheels, which are unquestionably better, and other improvements such as discs, carbon fork and wide rims for big tyres.

Ironically they don’t make them any more 🙁

^ pretty much like me with my Karate Monkey OPS (albeit with 2.4 tyres and currently a 100mm travel fork).

Linkage dropper posts.

scotroutes

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If we’re doing wireless and electronics, could I have a jacket with an E-zip that can be operated from the bars? Perfect for those changeable weather days.

I’d buy that.

Like the idea of linkage dropper posts , would solve a few of the problems .

Surely, following the no-deal Brexit in March, everything Shimano/Sram will become prohibitively expensive and only for someone on the salary of a premier league footballer due to the squillion percent import tax, and British brands will take over the world 😜

and British brands will take over the world

Not sure Britain ever made a groupset so better learn quick, come on Hope and all the other UK bike component manufacturers (can’t think of any of the top of my head so not a good start)

If we’re doing wireless and electronics, could I have a jacket with an E-zip that can be operated from the bars? Perfect for those changeable weather days.

I’d buy that.

That’s two of us. Any more?