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MXBREWSK 2/14/2022 4:43am
2/14/2022 4:43am
Primoz wrote:
Unless the shifting is REALLY stiff, I don't think you should have any problems with the Archer setup. As far as I've seen, you can determine...
Unless the shifting is REALLY stiff, I don't think you should have any problems with the Archer setup. As far as I've seen, you can determine chain pull for every gear separately if required. But of course, do share your experiences once you get the bike.

Focus on Effigear performance as well plus if you have the option of running a standard rear hub and a locked freewheel (to compare how it shifts, aiming at my comments of being required to backpedal and all...), that would be awesome.
Primoz I will discuss this with Joe also and let you know.
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MXBREWSK 2/15/2022 9:29am
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Primoz wrote:
Unless the shifting is REALLY stiff, I don't think you should have any problems with the Archer setup. As far as I've seen, you can determine...
Unless the shifting is REALLY stiff, I don't think you should have any problems with the Archer setup. As far as I've seen, you can determine chain pull for every gear separately if required. But of course, do share your experiences once you get the bike.

Focus on Effigear performance as well plus if you have the option of running a standard rear hub and a locked freewheel (to compare how it shifts, aiming at my comments of being required to backpedal and all...), that would be awesome.
MXBREWSK wrote:
Primoz I will discuss this with Joe also and let you know.
Primoz I agree that the Archer system should work, as the recent test of the Spur in PB shows it with a modified thumb shifter (pic) to change the gears with just the one cable.





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vinicius gabrielli 2/16/2022 3:37am
2/16/2022 3:37am
a better photo of the intense proto, and confirmed Vee tires
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bulletbass man 2/16/2022 4:04am
2/16/2022 4:04am
There is a second shockbolt. Wonder if that’s for testing leverage ratios or if it involves some type of link obscured by the Downtube.
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hitar_potar 2/16/2022 6:52am
2/16/2022 6:52am
Woooohooo, a horst-link-nified Intense Session! :D
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mrks 2/16/2022 6:55am
2/16/2022 6:55am
Looks like the new Raaw DH bike headtube


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Edthorne 2/16/2022 7:38am
2/16/2022 7:38am
Had to do it


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krabo83 2/16/2022 9:47am
2/16/2022 9:47am
bulletbass man wrote:
There is a second shockbolt. Wonder if that’s for testing leverage ratios or if it involves some type of link obscured by the Downtube.
where do you see that in the picture? or did you see the bike uncovered?
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pete3dmunds 2/16/2022 12:16pm
2/16/2022 12:16pm
Gwin and his high pivot intense
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bulletbass man 2/16/2022 2:27pm
2/16/2022 2:27pm Edited Date/Time 2/16/2022 2:30pm
bulletbass man wrote:
There is a second shockbolt. Wonder if that’s for testing leverage ratios or if it involves some type of link obscured by the Downtube.
krabo83 wrote:
where do you see that in the picture? or did you see the bike uncovered?
You can make out the rocker link and shock under the cover. There is a bolt that is just peeking out of the cover that is not connected to the shock.
bike_futurist 2/17/2022 1:12am
2/17/2022 1:12am
mfoga wrote:
Seems like it's heavy.
more of an aggro short travel trail bike than down country
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yahmon 2/17/2022 6:28am
2/17/2022 6:28am
IFR's approach to this new bike is perplexing to me... if it is secret enough that it has to be covered up, why use side-view shots of it for a major press release? If it's supposed to get people interested in a new bike they have coming out, why is it still covered up? And if it's an attempt to use guerilla marketing tactics to stoke interest, won't that fall a little flat when they release a barely-tweaked Session?
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Zero Cool 2/17/2022 8:20am
2/17/2022 8:20am
yahmon wrote:
IFR's approach to this new bike is perplexing to me... if it is secret enough that it has to be covered up, why use side-view shots...
IFR's approach to this new bike is perplexing to me... if it is secret enough that it has to be covered up, why use side-view shots of it for a major press release? If it's supposed to get people interested in a new bike they have coming out, why is it still covered up? And if it's an attempt to use guerilla marketing tactics to stoke interest, won't that fall a little flat when they release a barely-tweaked Session?
Think how many posts there have been about it on this site alone. Covering it up has generated loads of interest about what is under there; is it just a session? Is is Nico’s bike? Is it the new Intense proto? Where are the pivots, it’s ABS, it’s Horst link, it’s VPP? Etc.

Good or bad there has been a lot of publicity about to just from the first initial ‘spy shot’.
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29 2/17/2022 12:31pm
2/17/2022 12:31pm
Anyone know if a new strive is coming?
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hardbash 2/17/2022 3:54pm
2/17/2022 3:54pm
On Matt Stuttard's Instagram one can see the new Polygon bike he is riding in Finale.
Instagram Matt Stuttard
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metadave 2/17/2022 6:39pm
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sspomer wrote:
not tech rumors of the future but a look back at bikes from Interbike 2005 [i](only posting here b/c i know a lot of you just...
not tech rumors of the future but a look back at bikes from Interbike 2005 (only posting here b/c i know a lot of you just come straight to this forum).
https://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/features/INTERBIKE-2005-Throwback,13590…


I certainly don't have both rumours threads short cuts on my home screen. I absolutely do not.
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Primoz 2/17/2022 10:40pm
2/17/2022 10:40pm Edited Date/Time 2/17/2022 10:42pm
Don't you have e-mail notifications turned on?

Also, as I remember from the day, that Scott was all kinds of wonderful Smile
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iRider 2/18/2022 7:21am
2/18/2022 7:21am
Some good views of the Intense Session here:

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badbietz 2/18/2022 8:06am
2/18/2022 8:06am
iRider wrote:
Some good views of the Intense Session here:

Looks like a Neko

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Big Bird 2/18/2022 8:07am
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metadave wrote:
I certainly don't have both rumours threads short cuts on my home screen. I absolutely do not.
If you have an I Phone you could see up a Shortcut so it goes right here when you turn on your phone.
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Endurhevia 2/18/2022 8:34am
2/18/2022 8:34am
Looking good... Intense proto, little far away,but it's something




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hd4rider 2/18/2022 8:47am
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Endurhevia wrote:
Looking good... Intense proto, little far away,but it's something [img]https://p.vitalmtb.com/photos/forums/2022/02/18/12058/s1200_Screenshot_2022_02_18_13_32_51_490_com.google.android.youtube.jpg[/img]
Looking good... Intense proto, little far away,but it's something




Based on how the bike is sitting with the shock removed, it looks like the bike is a mid-high-pivot. I'm simply basing this on where the axle is relative to the main pivot; I may be wrong about this if the bike is currently sitting way lower than it would with the shock attached and bottomed out.
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metadave 2/18/2022 9:14am
2/18/2022 9:14am
I just saw a headline from bike radar but for some reason my copy paste isn't doing it's thing. SRAM developing an ebike motor. Would be cool to see if they somehow integrated the Hammerschmidt style hi/lo system for the output of that were possible.
Biketechspert 2/18/2022 9:36am
2/18/2022 9:36am
Looks like a frameworks
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krabo83 2/18/2022 10:08am
2/18/2022 10:08am Edited Date/Time 2/18/2022 10:22am
Endurhevia wrote:
Looking good... Intense proto, little far away,but it's something [img]https://p.vitalmtb.com/photos/forums/2022/02/18/12058/s1200_Screenshot_2022_02_18_13_32_51_490_com.google.android.youtube.jpg[/img]
Looking good... Intense proto, little far away,but it's something




looks like a full 29er to me and not a mullet.

edit: it's a mullet, confimed by AG later in the video.
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Ahab 2/18/2022 10:14am
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ENHANCE


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