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Now you can have two shocks setup completely wrongly.
Idk it was a flex when Orbea did it and it was really only hiding the travel adjust link and how good the bike looks. Then they tied it together with a win in its first WC. They didn’t have the diaper on that long at least.
Watching Tahnee pull the little diaper off as if anyone cared was pretty funny
I used to splice dyneema DUX for sail boat rigging. Part of the process was a pre stretch to settle in the splice and get any stretching done before the customer used it. After the truck winch exploded on me we switched to hydraulic rams. That stuff is crazy strong.
What does it look like?
Not like that, I'll tell you that for free.
went to their site for funsies and discovered they have a $48k eeb that seems no different from the $15k one posted earlier
can vital get one on the 15 day free trial for review?
https://blulans.com/products/blulans-s10
The single review on the site is something to behold:
"Blulans? Mor like BluAwesome!
S11ULT a bit more expensive than a handful of bikes but this is carbon fiber and you know what that is to mean: top of the notches and the best buck bang on the market area. I have one in my dreams and in the garageway I are many reasons for superior performance.
Firstly is one shock and then another shock. The response is overwhelming.
For the number 2 reason is the Blulang legacy and industry leading excellence. If you are familiar with Role Royce or the highest level Egypt cotton bedsheets it is nothing different.
For ending the list of benefits it should be illustrated the power and finesse of the riding experience. Dominate all."
suspension guy please draw the wheel action on this dual-shock puppy. Gimme one of those stick figure squish pics. Thanks in advance.
king crab link?
I think these Chinese mushroom brands are going to be a source of entertainment for a good long time to come.
The product image on the website shows one Flight Attendant and one Base shock, which is even more weird.
...and it has a kickstand. 🤣
I think it's just a common or garden Horst linkage with the extra shock connected via a yoke to the rocker
It is.
I especially like the front brake hose routing 🤣
Not that anyone ever would ever bother to do this on the dumb two-shock ebike, but I’m trying to imagine how hard it would be to pick a base tune for two identical shocks working in parallel on a fairly normal leverage rate.
The funny thing with the one flight attendant shock is that, in that dual shock layout, every time the FA shock locked out it would make the suspension twice as soft by diverting all the force to the other shock.
The way it should work with the dual shock is that one is spring rate and one in damping. Not sure if that’s what they are doing in this case, but that’s the reason it’s been done in the past.
If we were talking about that rad Cannondale proto that Matt Simmonds was on a few years ago, then yes, but I’m beyond certain that level of thinking is not happening here. Like someone else pointed out, it has a kickstand.
That Cannondale proto is still going, albeit without the second shock... Josh Bryceland rode it at Hardline.
Yeah, cannodale engineers now work for this chinese guys 🤣
I'm sorry, you literally cannot do this configuration in linkage
Or...
How heavy is this bike that it takes 2 shocks with maxed out air pressure to make it work?
Also
"Yo, i heard you like shocks so we put a shock on your shock."
You can just analyze it with one of the two shocks. Result is the same for everything but forces on the shocks. and rocker.
The kickstand is the pinnacle of the kickstand world... There are no better kickstands to be found anywhere..
No, the two shocks are in parallel, not series. Having them in series would make it half as stiff. Having them parallel makes it much stiffer still.
I agree this isn’t the case. Just was meaning the theory behind using 2.
Apparently this bike auto adjusts the suspension also….🤭
But is it carbon fiber?
if blulahahlhlah had some kind of OE deal w/ its spec, at what point do the component brands that support these efforts need to be held accountable? 🤮
I'm in.
Does anyone know of a good credit union, going to have to finance this since it cost more than my Wagoneer L
the use of "roughest paths" tells you the intended market. It's like the chef kiss of the entire marketing campaign.
I'm going to take a moment to lay out a real tech based reason that a dual shock bike could be useful. Not because I think it's where this bike was going and not because I necessarily think it's a good idea. Just for the fun of it. Each shock has its own leverage curve. You could use this to create an effective leverage curve anywhere between the two by proportionally changing the amount of support you are getting from each shock. Let's say one leverage curve was 30% progression and the other was 10%... you could alter how each shock is tuned to get a 20% curve. Or 21%. Or any number in between the two bounds. This would be an absolute rabbit hole of course, but you could call it infinite effective leverage curve tuning if you wanted.