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I noticed this hack that cathro did to prevent Shimano brake pad rattle, has anyone else ever done this? Marshy maybe? Does anyone have any more examples?
here is the photo
https://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/features/PIT-BITS-WORLD-CHAMPS-Lenzerhe…
https://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/features/PIT-BITS-WORLD-CHAMPS-Lenzerhe…
No to mention the fact that Saint is already pretty old and still relevant. Shifter and derailleur are okay (it's a DH bike grouppo, you don't shift around that much anyway), Shimano cranks are better than SRAM regardless how you look at them, they are just hassle-free, and the brakes have been a good standard for a small eternity, with the competition catching on in more recent years. But let's not forget what we had before!
I'd like to mention that I like SRAM more than Shimano, as a company, and run a X.0 drivetrain with Saint M820 brakes on my DH bike. Before that was in full SRAM mode and almost killed myself when my fresh bled Codes (the second generation) with just bed-in pads just stopped working simultaneously in a high speed corner of a practice run at a race. I was instantly teleported into a tree and it luckily resulted only in a huge lateral bruise that you more than sure wouldn't like to see.I know SRAM/Avid brakes have come quite a way since then, but I still don't feel too positive about them, due to the above.
Mx
Also, when listening to the the Chris Porter interview on Bikeradar podcast, he mentions that one drawback of current forks is that the bushings are fixed in the outers, whereas on motor sports forks, there is one on the stanction as well which increases the bushing distance when you are far into the travel, meaing that when there is a lot of force on the fork, the bushings keep things better in place and lessens bushing binding. I think this may hint something about the EXT Era fork, which I bet he have had something to say about with Mojo Risin's close collaboration with EXT. CRConception already have floating bushings on their upside down forks (cannot embed photo, follow the link). http://www.crconception.com/FORE-SC/
I'd really like to see how this MX bushings are dealt with, but yeah, can't be easy to make them fit.
Plus, if you have a sliding surface for an internal bushing (at the top of the lowers) and then another external bushing fitted to it at the end, how do you pull the fork apart? With a dismantable fork (upside down and a removable axle nut/mount, for example) you could pull it out from the top. There are other solutions of course (removing it together with the leg), but then there's a question of assemblybility, can the process be good in mass production, how finnicky is it to service, etc. At the end of the day what we have works reasonably well or well enough for most people not to give a damn. And those people won't pay x2 or x3 the price for a fork to get a marginal gain. And until DH isn't running custom products along these lines, I don't think it can be called 'the F1 of MTB'. Everything is too close to stock to be F1.