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As far as the linkage is concerned, it could also be a single pivot with single unit swing arm, similar to Evil. If they can find some way to have a nice leverage curve "À la Evil", that would be rad!
Given current price inelasticity of high end mtb, it would probably be a pretty compelling biz case even if prices increase 30%.
I would pay 30% more for a made in NA frame that holds a large water bottle inside the front triangle.
Link to the IG vid :
https://www.instagram.com/p/CM--7ZRFfOi/
The 2014 Sanction was a bruiser of a bike and was one of the first true mini-DH rigs of the EWS. Everyone else essentially had all-mountain (remember those?) bikes or long-travel trail bikes which would be great on pedal-y stages and transfers but would be seriously outgunned in places like Finale Ligure.
It was also surprisingly light for an aluminum frame at just over 7 lbs for a medium (under 7 lbs for size small), which would actually be lighter than many carbon enduro frames today.
It didn't pedal well but the remote lockout took care of that, which GT inexplicably removed after 2015.
I wonder how much input Dan Atherton and a teenage Martin Maes had on its design.
Sources: https://nsmb.com/articles/2015-gt-sanction-165mm-enduro-platform/, https://www.redbull.com/gb-en/gt-sanction-foxhunt-bike-check-dan-atherton-gee, https://enduro-mtb.com/en/are-pro-setups-for-everyone-riding-dan-athertons-gt-sanction/
(Turning this 2020 tech thread into a 2015 tech thread. Whoops. As you were.)
While they’re at it lets get the distortion back. 125/150mm 64 degree trail smasher with a DPX2 and a 36
Whats the point of Cannondale and GT being separate brands anymore? Seems to be it would make more sense for Cannondale to pretty much only have road & XC bikes, and for GT to only have AM, Enduro, and DH bikes. Maybe split duty on commuter/recreation bikes.
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Quote from Commencal: „The use of a jockey wheel on Andreu's FURIOUS is a system under development and is a system in line with the work carried out on our SUPREME DH, to better manage the chain effect. It’s not currently the plan to replicate this system on the production FURIOUS.“
https://www.commencal-store.co.uk/Mobile/MBCPPlayer.asp?ID=2055378
@baronKanon a seatstay pivot is, mostly, a sign of a single pivot design. This does not hold true for the Norco prototype (the layout is flipped) and that design uses the top pivot as the 'main' pivot. With standard Horst links, the lower pivot is the 'main' pivot, thus it needs a chainstay pivot. Both the GT and the Cannondale use this type of linkage.
The other way around is a single pivot, where you have seatstay pivots on classic bikes (Kona for example) or on the chainstay for a high pivot bike - Zerode DH bike.
A horst link is a virtual pivot point and requires at least three links to mount the wheel to the front triangle. With a single pivot a single link is enough to do that.
Gotta love broken web sites and their links...
Might want to check that Kavenz pivot there sir...
HL Pivots are located on the CS.
edit: i found the solution, on the bottom of the page there is a "head to website" option
baronKanon yeah, it's a normal high-ish horst link...
This is important to this industry as a whole. It's a long article with no cool pictures, so I just summed it up in like 4 sentences so you don't actually need to click on the link. But, I'm pretty stoked to see SRAM taking it upon themselves to try to reduce their carbon waste.
https://wheelbased.com/2021/03/28/recycled-fiber-material-and-method-by-sram/
Also, shoutout to @primoz for that fork post. Very dope.