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It's s mrp lower guide for high/mid pivot bikes. It should reduce a good bit lower chain line growth.
Same for the fork. DVO vents: https://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/members/wp-suspension-gasgas-e-enduro-p…
Yeah you can see it in Vital's video around the 1:37 mark.
More Sea Otter tech to dig into: https://www.vitalmtb.com/photos/features/pit-bits-sea-otter-2023-day-3/…
Sam Hill on the prototype caliper last weekend here in Oz def no writing on it thou even at 400%, I also love how the new Dissent Carbon is marketed and sold with only air shocks and their best rider is running coil.
Pretty Accurate...also not having the Transmission Groupset and the Stealth Brakes on a prototype would have been strange.
Privateer downhill bike?
Screenshot from their insta story
Ronan Dunne is running an air shock on his, and he certainly ain’t slow. Also air makes more sense to the mass market rather than ship each size with a set spring rate and hope it works
Saw a proto enduro bike from them in Surrey hills last week, frame in their insta looks very similar
What looks to be new on the prototype? I'm on their 161 and love it.
Has this angle been posted yet?
Anyone know what's going on with this Fox's spring and HSC adjustments? It's on the GT Fury proto. (photo from the Sea Otter Randoms #4 article on the other site)
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https://betterbolts.com/products/fox-36-38-40-top-caps
In college, I lived relatively close to Cane Creek's HQ when the original double barrel was created. I was fortunate enough to ride with a bunch of riders that were the first to get the shock, at that time North Carolina had multiple National Champions in DH and Slalom and they were all running the DB. Gerritt Beytagh even had a one-off itty bitty DB on his slalom bike. Ohlins US headquarters is in Hendersonville NC which is about 20 minutes from Cane Creek's HQ in Fletcher. I also seem to remember that Luca Shaw's dad worked for Ohlins USA, but I am not sure if that had any bearing on the collaboration between the 2 companies.
I also did a trail ride a couple of years ago with an engineer from Cane Creek and he told me they have a room at their HQ that has all the prototype shocks they've built over the years. He said they have several Pull shock prototypes that were similar to the FOX Dyad shocks that were on Cannondale's and Scott's. It came down to Fox and Cane Creek as to which company would be the OE shock supplier for those bikes. He said the Department of Defense also contracted them to build a Double Barrel that was 100% waterproof and meant to be used on unmanned armed drone boats that would patrol ports and shorelines.
::coolstorybro::
Yeah, I love my 161 but interested to see what they have in the works. I popped by the US HQ in Boulder a few months ago and they said v2 is in the works probably be ready for orders in September.
Neko doing more cool things: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/frameworks-racing-x-cotic-s….
Pretty funny how Vergier's running an O-chain on a bike with an idler pulley and very low pedal kickback to begin with. Not trying to start discourse again; just an observation.
Depending on which idler size you have on the Trek session it changes how many degree of pedal kick, also which rear cog your in. I’ve tried the bike with and without oChain and it’s a noticeable difference in feedback to your feet and the bike feeling more “free”. It might not even be feedback from chain growth, but separating the feel from chain to your cranks and pedal.
On a DH bike I think it’s still an advantage to using oChain. The only negative is the slop as you pedal forward.
What’s with the unfashionably long bolt going thru the direct mount thing? Seems like some kind of bodge
It's an adjustable chainstay length set bolt for going single speed. Or just to adjust chainstay length to one's preference (within a certain range of course).
I thought this thread was a cringe-mbn free zone. Couldn't pay me to watch that vid.
Wasn't as bad as I was expecting. I wonder if this was a one-off or will be an ongoing part of their world cup coverage.
"Coming soon" from Darren in the comments...
sorry, been a long sea otter and getting back into normalcy (aka digging into the best thread on the internet...this one : ). we didn't blow the embargo. 9am cali time on thursday was what i was told.
if you haven't seen, here's a clip of schroeder on it from a few weeks ago. we'll have the full pull whenever we get the green light
If I could convince myself I only need 1 mountain bike I could probably justify however much this thing costs. Hmmmmm...sell a few bikes and build one to rule them all?
The slow motion stops in the most inappropriate moment... What a perfection... !?
gwin confirms the DH bike will go into production - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/gwins-intense-prototype-279-hp6-he-…
Wait a minute!
There was an inverted fork at Sea Otter? Seriously?
How am I just hearing about this?
(Joke)
I guess that depends on your perspective,
whether you’re selling, or buying