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E-bikes and relatively low power lightweight electric motorcycles will be the main transportation method for large parts of the world. Imagine replacing every 2 stroke engine in a Vietnamese city with something clean. Once the tech is affordable enough it would mean a massive improvement in air quality and noise. So what’s a niche or recreational market in some places can be the norm in others.
It’s also a marketing opportunity for them. They use existing resource and leverage partnerships for some kind of increased revenue stream and they reach a new audience who now has name recognition of the brand. Also agree with bulletbass that it’s a long game as well.
I think we going to have air shock from fast
I believe that’s a Formula Nebbia
https://www.rideformula.com/products/mtb-shocks/nebbia/
I see purple and think fast, not formula. My mistake
discuss the topic of energy in a different thread.
https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/VitalMTB/Off-the-Bike,3
Is this saying there is more or less pedal kickback with this modification?
Less pedal kick with mod but less pedal efficiency, it will bob a lot
Question for the Boxxer people: does this look normal, or is Luca Shaw running some sort of added chamber on the top of his spring side stanchion?
Picture comes from a bike check post on Luca's Canyon Sender from the other site. Looks like it could be an added volume cap for the positive air chamber, like the MRP Noken or Ratio Flux Cap we tested on Vital.
And 200 psi…
Is that low or high for the new fork?
Sounds in the ballpark for the new fork - they run way higher pressures due to the smaller chamber diameter and large negative spring. An average dude would be in the 170psi bracket so someone like Luca could easily be at 200, especially if that has a larger positive chamber
And no, that doesn't look like a normal rockshox part
So unlike the Zeb the Boxxer has a cartridge?
Correct.
Agreed, adding volume to reduce the ramp up. I was 180-185psi ish. No spacers or 1 spacer. About 180lb when I had that fork. Luca being lighter weight but 10x faster could easy be 180-220psi.
(Edit: from PB “Luca is running 200 psi in his Boxxer fork with zero tokens in it, and the rebound is set to 10 clicks from the closed position.”)
That fork has crazy progression but very soft initial stroke because large neg chamber. I tried to make the neg chamber smaller which let me use less air to get sag and that reduced the ramp but then it was topping out super hard.
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When you reduce neg. Volume on fork with EQ ports the fork should top out less or even not reach full extension. Something else must have been the issue there, your thinking was absolutely correct.
This.
Flex stay bikes feel really fast on flow trails, when you perfectly land on the downslope of something they shoot you forward and if you pump they give it all back.
But in the chattery crap I ride (CTX) flex stays really suck as they are harsh and don't track well; unable to cope with the very rapid wheel movements required in quick succession. No amount of suspension adjustment can change this, imo.
Aw looks like someone messed up the time zones
Needs Radial Tyres instead of maxxis for maximum hype and aura imo.
MSRP 2k
anyone know if its only 170? I guess i could wait 30 mins
Why would anyone pick the Podium over the 9.1? Mass assembled in Asia with yet-to-be-seen quality control, crap damper, same old air spring, yet nearly as heavy as the coil sprung 9.1, same MSRP?
There is a 160 version as well
FYI- there going to be about 5x 170 and 5x 160 in stock and available in the us so go to your LBS and buy one now if you want one.