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Did someone say there is a bar and stem combo similar to Da Package from We Are One?
77designz from Germany (same people behind Kavenz bikes) They collaborated with WR1 to produce that sleeved bar for their one piece stem. WR1 then sold it as a debranded product while 77 sold it with their logo on it. There a PB article from 2019 on this too and the owner confirms in the comments that both products are identical.
https://youtu.be/oncvK_zgMlo?si=lHjgTRTCstwYGwwG
Get the 77designz one while supplies last!
LHP S4 Brakes teaser from Lewis:
https://www.instagram.com/lewisbike_official/reel/DBkqpKvR-5t/
https://www.lewisbike.com/disc-brakes-lhp-u4.html
No need to rush they are already collaborating with another carbon company. The molds appear to be ready and the new bar should be identical in performance. Just a supplier change really.
I know the brake nerds are already thinking this so here i'll post it. Lewis really are Hopeless.
inb4 "oH tHeRe ArE oNLY sO mAnY wAyS yOu CaN wRiTe a 4" 🙈
I didn’t know what you were trying to show in the photos until I scrolled further down and you said 4, but even that is designed differently. The bottom and right ends are square on the Lewis and the cut throughs are in different locations.
same ! I think I spent 20sec trying to see the similarities and failed to see anything. Then I read the caption, tinfoil hat much? 🙄
If you think this is crazy, wait till you see all the vertical shock crab bikes.
The focus of this being the way they wrote the number 4 which is still a bit different and not focused on the caliper itself which is completely different is kind of funny. When are we gonna start talking about what color crayons taste best cause i feel like we are getting pretty close?
Duh....orange totes obvs. Much tangy.
They go perfect with my fox fork too. Best trail snack
Just buy a zs56 upper and lower cane creek hellbender 70…
Lewis is using the same black colour!
Are these "worn out in less than 200 miles" XTR cassettes in the room with us right now?
They can creak, especially he earliest ones, but I've put thousands of miles on these and don't find they wear differently than any other cassette.
Seriously. I calculated between 3,500 and 4,000 miles on an XTR cassette - it moved across a few bikes so I had to total up the miles on it. The wear life on them is extremely long.
If the rivets are loose causing creaking, Shimano will warranty them. Remember, three years on XTR stuff!
It was a couple years back. They didn't creak, but the ramp teeth had worn down to nubs and shift quality had deteriorated dramatically. The drivetrain was setup by a shop, so theoretically it was installed correctly. Shimano warrantied both of them then I sold the system to go bleep bloop.
Maybe I should have sprung for XTR... After breaking teeth off a few XT cassettes on the 41t, I started buying SLX to get a steel 41. I run the 10-45s, I don't need a 51 in Chicago. The 10t cogs wear fast and start skipping in the high hundres of miles, teeth of the 41 would start to disappear north of 1000, and the whole thing would be poor shifting mess by 12-1500 hundred. XTR chains went at the same rate.
Shimano 12s needs a gen 2, and I'm not worried about the future of DI2. My Shimano 12s journey has been rough.. chain and cassette wear, warranty shifters, warranty chainrings, a couple chains grenading at very low miles, soft XT derailleur cages.. Linkglide, GRX and everything pre-12 was always great for me, and I was definitely Shimano leaning in the great big S debate, but not married to them by any means.
I've seen e-bikes eat Shimano 12sp drivetrains in circa 500 miles .The 10 and 12t get hammered while the top 5 sprockets are untouched. They just rode everywhere at 30rpm.
Run the cassette/chain combo on the enduro bike for a while and wear out the easiest two gears climbing up fire roads, swap the combo onto the ebike and burn out the other bit at 30 km/hr. Perfect!
This could just be a super deluxe with different air can but does look similiar to fox genie shape
That's the Linear XL air can that's been out for a while.
I know there is a 2 year exclusivity for specialized and fox for the genie. I just can’t remember what they said happens after that. It could be that speci will loop rockshox in at that point, so we could theoretically be seeing or will see a rockshox genie either being tested or going to market. Again, I can’t remember how the speci/fox genie exclusivity thing works
Ok, but the pictured shock is the 2025 linear XL air can as AndehM mentioned. If Rockshox Genie is a thing, this ain't it.
Edit: I think it's funny that RS released this air can which increases air volume and makes the shock generally more linear. HOWEVER, you can fit way more progression tokens into this can than the last one so if you'd like, you can install this can and tune it to feel exactly the same as the old one.
For that reason I assumed it was going to supersede both original air cans. Looks like it hasn't (yet?)
I was being a bit tongue in cheek when I said "exactly the same". My understanding is that if you load the new can up with tokens it'll feel like the regular can with no tokens, so the old can still has a home on particularly linear platforms.
So bikes were too linear and we needed to use air shocks to fix it, but now bikes are more progressive, so we need to increase the air volume in our shocks to make them more linear. Makes sense to me!
That's one reason for the various air cans, and in a world where you can get a Starling with 0% progression or a Privateer with 44% progression, big brands like Rockshox and Fox need OEM options to fit a super wide range of suspension parameters. There are other benefits to more air volume though, like more mechanical leverage to overcome seal drag. In the coil vs. air battle, more volume is a pretty powerful tool to help air chase performance. That's what they did with the new Boxxer air spring: bigger volume, smaller piston size, more PSI ===> "coil like feel." The new SDLX can doesn't offer a smaller piston size, but it does offer the same piston size and more air volume, which accomplishes the same goal.
the frame designers and shock makers are always going back and forth since time immemorial - originally the shocks were too progressive, which limited air shocks to short travel until 5th element brought out a large volume can which meant long travel bikes (130mm!) could use them. Volumes got bigger and travel increased so we started adding spacers to reduce that volume while running more sag, and now we seem to have a bit of both - I still get confused by Rockshox and their naming of air springs, which take in to account the volume of the negative chamber as well as the positive chamber. Large volumes overall are generally better most of the time - you can use lower pressure for the same spring rate and get less seal friction as well as accomodating a wider range of rider weights, even in higher leverage frames