Sea Otter Classic - Budget Drivetrains, Limited Edition Bikes and More! 

Good for Doddy for landing at Mondraker. I miss his GMBN vids, was my favourite presenter.

Great to see Doddy as passionate & knowledgable as ever.

Good to see doddy! GMBN tech isn't the same without him.

Great seeing bike tech legend Doddy again, GMBN Tech was never the same for me since...

That's a nice surprise seeing Doddy on the other side! edit: just checked, they didn't feature him on embn Mondraker material :/

Hey Loam Wolf. We really don't mind if the video goes on for 30 mins or more. We're bike nerds, give us what we want.

My god, Mondraker know how to make a good looking bike 🥵

Finally doddy is his natural element, the salesman

I rented a CUES equipped Trek Roscoe over at Over the Edge Baja and was blown away by how well it shifted. It was nearly identical to my 12-speed Shimano XT. I'm sure it was heavier but out on the trail I couldn't feel the weight and the drivetrain was a dream to shift.

If you want an excellent budget drivetrain, get the MicroShift Advent 10 speed. It's a wide range cassette that works on standard hyperglide hubs, is super cheap, lighter than XTR 12-speed, and FAR less finicky. I never have to turn the barrels on the trail like on my SLX or XT bikes. 10 speeds make it far less finicky to keep in tune, but I've never once wish I had a gear between two gears. Quite the contrary...I appreciate not having to make double shifts as often. I bought this to breathe new life into an old 3x10 bike by converting it to 1x10. I was skeptical, but highly impressed.

Good stuff, thank you for all the coverage

Bittersweet to see Doddy outside of GMBN videos. Wish him all the best.

Problem with Cues is, it fucks with compatibility in the 9spd, which never was an issue. It sounds like Shimano just wants to add more skus to make things more confusing to the end user and even shops.

I need that Gulf livery Mondraker.

I have comments about builds out in the wild at SeaOtter and I’m gonna keep them to myself.

I’ll probably get the M8130 casette (and matching shifter and derailleur) for my 1x conversion project (2014 Salsa Horsethief). However, I’m very disappointed in cog choices for gears 3-5. The 36, 30, 26 should have been 37, 32, 27 (the other 8 choices are good) which would have been noticeably smoother in percentage jumps (taking away the 19.4 and 20% jumps going from 2 to 3 and 3 to 4 and making those 16.2 and 15.6%. Bummer.

Anyone know what the DJ bike was on the Spank stand? It'll always be strange seeing Doddy somewhere other than GMBN

Chainstay too short on L and XL. Stack is too low and can a 240 dropper be slammed?

Wait, why is that Privateer guy wearing Hunt shirt? Are Hunt and Privateer belong to the same mother company or what?

Great to see Doddy again! Shame on GT for using the Zaskar name in a full suspension bike.

Anyone else think the privateer dude sounds like Bear Gryls

There is no reason for ebikes to be 12 speed, 9 or 10 speed max is all that is needed. 10-50, or 11- 50.