Things the MTB industry does wrong

except to say , when I started MtB ing in the bush is was on a 24 inch 1 3/8 wide rims sigle speed bike that was bent and my father straightened by driving his car on it .....
“ Shut Up And Ride “
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Yeah good on SRAM for setting an excellent standard, one for the rest to adopt.
I'll bite. I'm betting the competition don't adopt another competitors 'standard' and go ahead to make their own variant instead.

MTB standards seem to be a free for all with healthy doses of manufacturer lock in You slowly end up going the whole 'ecosystem' limiting future choice even more. Bag 'o dicks for all.
 
Oh , and I had to get up in the morning and walk ten miles before dawn to get a lump of coal so we had heating ....
Oh, weren't you privileged.
I had no coal and had to walk twenty miles in the dark to find sticks because we were too poor to afford sunlight :)
 
Shimano don’t understand hubs, why would they understand drivers?
They understand hubs alright, they just don't understand why anyone would have different cassette interface patterns...... (On the road side, they're about the only ones who don't offer Campagnolo-pattern drivers, so not adopting XD isn't a precedent).;)
 
We use ‘standard’ tongue in cheek. Saying it has just become the norm, and it shits me too.
The cycling meeja aren't so tongue in cheek, it's just plain fucking misuse. Closely followed by "enduro".

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Good point. It’s become just lazy speak for most people. It’s a word that everyone knows the meaning of, but very few know the actual meaning of.
 
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