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Big Backsweep Boi. 12degrees is prime, I've done even 16 and liked it.
I ran both the high and mid rise version of the SQ Lab 12 degree bars. I was a die hard 9x5 degree guy before that. I have pretty horrible wrists and they definitely made a noticeable difference in wrist pain and hand fatigue while descending. On the flip side, they were actually more uncomfortable than “normal” bars while climbing for sustained periods of time (15+ minutes) as I felt like it bent my wrists awkwardly in a seated position as my elbows aren’t as spread open when not in attack position. I negated this by moving my hands inward and wrapping my thumbs around my brake lever clamps. I would definitely have continued to run them, but they don’t produce a high enough rise.
File the “backsweep” topic right next to the “should your handlebars be the same height as your seat when it’s fully extended” topic.
These are not tech rumors. These are subjective, personal preference, opinions based on anecdotal evidence.
Enough.
I've mentioned this before (I think it was in the cockpit thread?) but I swapped out a 40 mm Turbine R stem and a 35 mm rise Turbine R handlebar (5/8 deg sweep) for an aliexpress 35 mm stem and a 55 mm rise, 8/12 deg sweep bar (and moved a 20 mm spacer from above to under the stem). While the riding has improved (due to the bars being higher), because of the much reduced effective reach I'm riding much more off the back of the bike, which I feel is a negative. And I fear I'm more of a praying mantis than before, I'm worried a higher backsweep angles your elbows inwards.
I haven't done back to back testing yet, I'm saving it for a new bike, but this backswept bar needs a test with a 50 mm stem and/or I need to go back to a less swept bar.
Maybe move this debate to the bar height topic and rename said topic to 'general cockpit discussion'?
Can we move this discussion along to another thread please.....
Yep, you can see the additional pivot placements above and below the main pivot with the idler in the first photo. I'm guessing this CF1 implementation (no idler) is meant to provide similar benefits to the original CBF design with the center of curvature at the top of the chainring, but with lower anti-rise.
Done. Although the title has been censored, Vital don't seem to like the word 'cockpit'.
Now back to tech rumours, has anyone heard anything about GT strengthening their DH frames? Asking on behalf of Roger Viera.
I feel like if Brage can ride one, roger shouldn’t be worried. Unless he broke one at VDS since his last instagram story of him riding the bike im not really sure what you’re referring to.
Ummm… check the other site.
Woof…Spoke too soon
hope Roger’s alright after that. Bummed that happened to him, seems like a great dude trying his butt off to make it to the top.
Didn't someone snap a Gambler a week or two ago?
yeah, but that gambler made contact with a tree, different scenario than snaping a frame while riding it like it's intended.
Paul Aston’s new Egerie Radical+
Looks to be based off the old Sunn DH race bike that he owns
Yeah. The Radical+
Fair point
val di sole bike abuse video for potential sleuthing
probably going to have 900mm reach and 1200mm chainstays
If it works for him thats his choice… pretty sure he’s a better rider than the vast majority of us in here.
Likewise I know what size of bike I like and I’m not going to ram it down everyones throat and get upset like some folk in here do.
Isn't this what people here have speculated is under the cover on the new Spec?
No.
The new Demo will most likely be a regular horst link with an additional link under the BB to compress the shock, that looks like a 2 generations old Commencal after growth hormone therapy (nothing wrong with that, I bet it goes fast)
Seeing as Max Commencal created Sunn that makes total sense.
Well, they’ve probably found something new that allows the bike to be super fast and planted, and keep up with the high-pivot bikes on the gnarly stuff, that’s why they covered it up.
Something that’s been bugging me for some time now: why does the Cube HP bike need a floating brake arm? Being a horst-link and especially a highish-pivot one, aren’t the brake forces almost completely separated from the suspension and therefore there’s no need for this?
Horst link bikes generally have low anti-rise because the virtual pivot point is usually quite far forward. But raising the pivot means adding anti-rise. I expect that the AR on a mid-pivot horst link bike is still lower in general than a single pivot/VPP/DW bike where the main pivot, real or virtual, is near the top of the chainring through most of the stroke. Perhaps they want to keep the very low AR braking feel of a typical horst while also making use of a higher pivot.
The brake link allows you to tune the antirise if done properly.
Speaking of brakes...
https://www.bikeperfect.com/news/first-they-came-for-your-derailleur-ha…;
Is that much different compared with a dirt bike rear brake mount? I guess this would make for good alignment granted frames are aligned in the first place
"granted frames are aligned in the first place" - yeah good luck with that, there is only a select few brands that have spot on alignment. Torque patterns are ment to help with such things but nobody pays any attention to that.
one example of poor alignment at its poorest was trek with the current gen slash, between twisted rocker pivots, poor boring/molding(aligning) of the lower shock holes combined with the extremely poor lower shock bearings(alignment and depth) - the bearings used to just seize almost instantly - not helped at all by the double trunnion shock cause horrid creaking and then the weld down the side of the downtube used to crack because of the stress,
The non trunnion versions,(slash 7) never really seen the issues, and they have now moved back to a tradition std eyelet for both.
(both the carbon and alloy versions had the issue but the carbon didnt crack but randomly broke the rocker by the main bolt/nut on the non drive side)
Dont even get me started on the oval holes on transition frames lol
I was wondering if it was a Danny thing more than a Cube thing as he also ran one on the Saracen for a while...