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Curious to see if gee is on one. Feel like the session isn't long enough for his liking, hasn't looked right all season. Reach is only 6mm shorter stock for stock from an XL session to a large fury. But I recall him being on a custom sized fury also. Aluminum sure is convenient....
He's also rocking what seems a different rear end, as he is riding aluminium seatstays. The original frames come with carbon ones.
Hmmm, they seem to just experiment with geometry?! If you compare this frame to the one from Rachel you can see that there are a few added mm to the top tube around the seat tube area.
Or at least a longer one? All of the Session iterations since 2009 use a 222mm long damper.
Let's be honest, it doesn't matter what changed. Rachel will still be faster than you.
So... stiffer on front-end (bigger tubes) and more permissible on rear-end (no more bridge). Smaller rod (for more progressivity I guess), fixed bottom shock mount...
The comparison with a Porsche 911 seems appropriate
Canfield bases all their bikes for years on rearward axle path and now designs bike with essentially no rearward travel and now I'm supposed to believe that it's the best thing in the world.
Trek markets Full Floater and then starts deleting it from bikes. Now there's straight shot down tube that I'm expected to believe is the best thing in the world but it's not even incorporated into test mules where straight tubes would just be sooo much easier. Not to mention that straight shot tube make way more sense on a dual crown bike than single crown ones.
I am a sheep.., I'll just follow and not ask questions.
My impression is that they're mainly refining the stiffness to weight ratio. They've gone with huge stiffness in the past and leaned down considerably, and now they're sort of beefing it back up where it has more impact and trimming weight where it's not doing much good.
Seat stay bridge trimmed since the stubbier & beefed up rocker has its own bridge in the vicinity. Possibly asymmetric chainstays to save weight. Less clearance behind the shock, with a bulked up the seat tube. They always had a "straight shot" downtube on the Session, and don't need a knockblock, since they expected to always have a dual crown fork on it.
Hard to tell any geo changes. HA has generally settled at 63, BB height usually carefully chosen for max versatility. downtube length might be an indicator of reach, and the space between chainring and rear tire might be an indicator of chainstay length. How far the saddle is behind the BB (tip of nose behind imaginary line drawn straight up) might indicate seat position change. Hard to tell 1 degree or 5mm changes from a pic, especially when it's hard to be sure what size they're on. The various protos could very well each have their own unique changes.
and asfar as i heard, some other companys will come with 29er DH-bikes in the next 2-3 years...
The front tyre even on my phone you can make out says 27.5 x just like the rear tyre.
NEXT..........
We still make the Jedi.
And don't worry, it's not going anywhere.
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