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Airdrop just released their new Filter, looks like a solid fun bike!
Airdrop Filter MX - 141mm alloy framed mountain bike - Airdrop Bikes Limited
As a consolation that lower crown is inverted imo
what are on the brake calipers?
I think those are sensors for the Fox live valve system
https://ridefox.com/products/live-valve-neo-kit
<in Will Ferrel's voice from an SNL skit, with the cow bell>
I NEED MORE SIDE KNOBS!
For reals, looks good to me. Would bang. Take my money naow!
I have any way to predict that Fox is doing this, but I'd be interested if they went for less torsional stiffness on the new 40 crown. The Podium is supposed to be comparable to the new 36 in terms of torsional stiffness, and it feels great. Because the 40 crown is so much flatter, it looks like Fox was able to make the lowers longer, which would allow for more bushing overlap. I wonder if they're trying to copy some of the Podium magic by adding fore/aft stiffness with more bushing overlap while reducing torsional stiffness for better steering.
These are all speculations. Richie Rude is running the 38 by choice at Crankworx, so it's also not a sure thing that all Fox athletes are as enamored with the Podium as I was.
good engineering?
Good eye, and that's hilariously bad. I'm 99% certain that no one planned out hose routing before making this arch for the test fork, and somebody had to get out a drill and give it their best shot. At least I'm hoping so, because that hose location does NOT look ready for prime time.
Will probably end up somewhere near the 36 placement.
Obvious Fox didn't read the silent bikes thread. Missed opportunity to just line the small hole with furry side Velcro and smash the cable through.
Are you talking about the holes in the fork arch that will let more dust, mud and debris in around the seals?
If only there was a big hole in the arch they could just run the brake hose through...
I think they are talking about how the brake line has almost no clearance with the side knobs of the tire.
This angle from the other site makes it look like this wasn't a random mounting point. Make sure that front wheel's true!
Yeah, there is absolutely zero chance they have a mould that's that far along and show it off as not final. I guess they're going to band aid it with an angled hose guide in the footprint of the original.
Either that or someone is gonna get rich selling kashima zip ties.
Maxxis still hasn't figured out angled side knobs 😪
Jackson really struggling with those straight side knobs 😂
Having worked on a good number of bikes with these types of arches, I can confirm they don't get any more dirty than a "standard" arch. In fact, when it's super sloppy, it gives the goop a place to go rather than accumulate around the wipers.
Are we sure it’s a 40? Could it be a 38 dual crown?
Remember the old Honda bikes that Minnnaaaar and Fairctloth (spelling intentional) ran. They ran an upside down fork, IIRC. I thought that routing was pretty cleaver. Like a tube that the hose ran through. Almost like a tube your rear derailer would run through, if you were that...uh...anal about it
Got me second guessing my eyecrometer over here… 🧐
It’s got a 40 29 sticker on it…
Which is exactly the sticker they'd put on it if they wanted to deceive us about the real stanchion size...
Screw that, I don't want to have to disconnect my brake hose just to mount it to a fork. I hate the internally routed rear enough.
Lower leg service --> brake bleed
Thanks, but no thanks.
I just unbolt the lever from the handlebars so I don't have to remove the caliper when I do a lower service. It's less faffing around to put the lever back into the same position that realigning a caliper.
Sram T type electronic derailleur?
fwiw, for inverted forks, you clamp the upper legs to the stand and dont need to remove the fork from your bike at all ; )
Just clamp the bike in the stand and you don’t need to remove a regular fork for service either…?