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But you know who loves new standards? Component makers + marketing and finance departments.
Yeah I have noticed that with my intend fork when doing some bed in of new discs/pads. Looked down during heavy braking and I was like "no way my handlebar/stem is that crooked" - Figured it was torsional flex.
To be fair, RSU trail forks flex quite a bit during hard braking as well.
I am trying to make DYI guards for the Essential from thermoplastic sheets ... what a PITA without proper tooling. Silly me. Perhaps I should look into 3D printing the mold, but I don't have the skills, time and patience for anything beyond a few simple hacks.
yes, but the bad (or little bit worst) flex...which increases the friction when binding the lowers while stanchions try to slide through noodly lightweight lower legs ; )
If it's stanchion guards only, a friend of mine did 3D print them. 2 separate pieces though without a fender connecting them.
One possible option would also be to do it in multiple parts and glue them together, but to get over a 29er wheel the whole assembly will be very long and would have to be anchored well enough and sturdy enough to not flap around.
Sorry can you or someone break down what noidea is talking about. I dont know why reading what he said just had me a little loss. Has me really curious because right at this moment Im trying to deside between a Trance frame or a Banshee Prime frame. Prime having some very long chainstays like the Titan in his example.
There are a few people who I eagerly await pre-season race footage of, top of the list is Loic and based on his recent story I'd say we aren't disappointed. New/Raw brake calipers, possibly uncovered rear shock finally, new chainstay, new/kinked seat tube? There's too much and yes I am hoping someone posts the screenshots for me.
you must be someone important... that was a quick turnaround for your request ; ).
even the stanchions are not black.. so much going on here. ..
Those cranks look very short. Maybe 5DEV?
You can see the drive crank doesn't have continuous holes like 5 dev. That is most likely a new sram dh crank. The hole looks a lot like the XO crank but the backside is not scalloped like the current XO crank.
Honestly I felt like I was having a stroke trying to understand his most recent post, but I think what he means is that swingarm lenghth, CS length, and Rear Center measurements are not the same, even though in some cases they are interchangeable.
It seems his focus is on longer swing arms and how they make for a more efficient suspension operation. We can get longer rear center numbers by moving BBs forward, or tacking on extra length behind the swing arm, but noidea is promoting the idea that we are missing out on having actually long swing arms, since those bikes (like the enduro) ride so much better than short swing arm bikes (from a suspension performance perspective.)
I don’t really get his thing about being pitched forward, and I haven’t gotten to ride enough bikes to be able to say if the enduro’s suspension works that much better than other bikes. I know that handling-wise longer rear centers are a big deal for a lot of folks in this thread and I think from there we move on to looking at the finer points of the kinematics.
It's pseudo technical babble and not a tech rumor.
That fork coating is reminiscent of the older rockshox 26in models. What is it? I forgot if it was Titanium Nitride or something else.
THe linkage is different now too. Whatever is going on down there, it looks like its going to have massive torque on the pivots, with them being so close together
I agree, there were rumours that the demo was getting close to production, then this mid pivot one with 2 chainz and a whole suite of gizmos crops up to make things really interesting.
I know what's going on down there. Give me 30 minutes and I'll have a rough linkage model to post
I get that its going to be pretty close to the machined chainstay from last season, but I don't see a large extension going down under the BB, so either thats hidden in that low resolution photo, and theres wicked leverage on the (probably) carbon, and/or the pivots are now closer together making things even more extreme.
Mildly interesting - But Rockshox "finally" released the electric red color on the rest of their lineup yesterday. Sid, Pike and Lyrik now all available.
In the second photo I see some linkage coming from the front and bottom of the bottom bracket. Looks like the bottom bracket may even be open at the front.
Terrible editing but blue is the cranks and yellow is the bb shell, so all that unmarked area between the yellow and left blue crank looks to me like linkage.
Possibly related, in the recent MBR video about the new Levo, there is this foam model next to the one of the designer's desks:
In the (possibly relevant) rendering above the models, it looks to be a bike with a single crown:
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Here is what I drew up, it has a pretty high anti-rise, axle path is rearwards for around 2/3rds of the travel. all the fun stuff
New Enduro??
Looks like an evolution of this previous Specialized patent...
Similar to the Enduro patent drawing found a while back...
Sure does! I think one of the interesting things they have done is replace whatever chainring they would have, with a small one that is free to spin on the crank axle or chainring interface, and it serves as the lower tensioner.
Are we talking over or under 100% anti-rise??