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"The floating link creates a progressive feeling suspension with an almost direct compression of the shock, minimizing DU bushing rotation. This increases shock bushing life and improves small bump sensitivity.”
"The linkage system is designed to minimize shock hardware rotation; this reduces wear and Scott reckon helps keep the initial stroke nice and supple (more relevant when running an air shock). "
This doesn't seem to be something that gets mentioned by many (any?) companies nowadays. Maybe it's one of those mythical things, like pedal kickback
The image that post is referring to seems to have been deleted.
I sent my axs reverb back under warranty and it took over 12 months to get a replacement in my hands.
The replacement now has the same issue as the one that was sent back.
Would be curious as to what changes they have made?
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Maybe They are doing the whole figuring out if they should move to a new suspension layout type thing before they update everything. Giant hangs onto designs and what not far longer than most companies so if there is a plan to update these bikes my guess is they want to creat another "future proof" platform to work from.
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Or maybe they kinda don't actually care about being in every segment of MTB and or leading in any of them because manufacturing for other companies and making city bikes and e-bikes yields far more profit...
Regarding shock bushing rotation, bearing mounts anyone?
I had multiple different shocks on my DW-DHR and it stayed tight for years
I was thinking about upgrading the shock on my wife‘s Bronson v3 but it‘s somehow hard to find shocks with that mount.
It's a replacement 'bushing'. With RS the bearing mount is a whole different part number - either the top eyelet part (where the reservoir on the Super Deluxe attaches) or the damper body (or damper shaft/eyelet assy on the Coil Super Deluxe).
With Fox you can go either way. With RS you're 'stuck' with the given variant.
Closeup shots of the covered up prototype. The idler area is Session/Neko HP like. And it's a Horst link, so it's possible it was Neko's bike. Or a Session with a different seatstay maybe? o.O