Canyon doing Canyon things (110mm fork):
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Rumoured new Blur in May.
In frame storage, 120 travel and somehow another pound heavier? 
Ps. I have a blur and love it… but it’s heavy compared to the epic.
This is my thought and speculation too. I’m not convinced added weight and geometry adjustments are going to work/make sense for smaller frame sizes and riders (thinking the women’s field in particular).
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I have just noticed Santa Cruz in the UK are selling 2024 Blurs on their website.
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No mention of the new Ripley SL
No mention of the Allied Fitz either. They’re not XC bikes.
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Ripley SL looks like a great all-around downcountry bike. Not sure I’d call it “XC”
Won’t take flight attendant per one of the reviews I saw so personally I wouldn’t even consider it.
(I am a fan of Ibis too, before I bought my current Epic I was hoping for a new Exie)
Escapecollective was really positive about the new Giant when it released. Just wondering if anyone has ridden or bought one? thanks.
At 6’5” and having bought a 26” bike just as 29ers came out I’m keeping an eye on 32” frames
The BMC 32” prototype is heavier in part because it’s a prototype. Yeah it’ll be heavier, but there’s a lot of aluminum in that frame and to extend the fork. It’ll be heavier, but this probably is the upper limit (unless bigger hubs are needed or they start breaking prototype bikes).
The components will be heavier - fork and wheels/tires, yet I recall reading that often larger frames are lighter than smaller frames. I can’t remember why but wonder about whether the frame will actually be much heavier.
I can’t wait to run a 32”, 27.5 mullet.
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In the article they state they think the finished bike (with larger tires) will be 600-700g heavier.
The frame is only about 1900g and the shock similar, so it pretty hard to believe that a production part would add 30% when you’re talking about relatively small additions in tubing length.
Pretty soon a XC bike (the ones that don’t cost $15,000) will be 30+ pounds. 
I picked one up a regular Anthem a couple of weeks back. I’ve not owned an actual XC bike before so I’ve only got my old Trance X to compare to, but so far I’m loving it.
One small gripe was it came with the single-click 90 shifter and the shop I bought it from had no stock of the non-single at supplier, so I had to pay to get another shop to swap in the regular shifter for me.
I’m 190cm 80kg on an XL frame. Stock sag feels great. The installation of the shock means you can’t read the model code so you can’t use the SRAM setup guide, but it’s not a massive deal.
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Looks great.
Being in the PNW and a Transition owner/fan, looks like they released a new updated Spur for XC / downcountry. New features like downtube storage, and more travel.
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Honestly surprised they didn’t go slacker with the new model.
I’m a huge fan of downtube storage and I can’t imagine buying a frame for the price of a full bike from the previous gen. Great bike though, really fun short travel trail bike.
Maybe I’m missing something, but it looks like the only wireless builds are shimano di2 and the only options for mechanical are 2 low end sram builds? I can’t even wrap my head around leaving out all the sram wireless builds and flight attendant unless 13 speed (or something new) is about to pop. Or maybe Shimano is giving di2 away dirt cheap to OEM’s to try to gain back some MTB marketshare from SRAM?