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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…?
But you still have to remove the brake from either side. Either the master cylinder or the caliper.
For inverted forks I clamp the stanchions in the bike stand and remove the bike.
Only way IMHO
Shifter pod on bars
Here’s me if they discontinue the original DHF
Is this just to leave room for the mass damper?
Finally! A proper electronic DH rear derailleur. I've been wondering when we'd be able to pay $1500 to ruin three derailleurs on the same rock in one race weekend. Can't come fast enough.
It's a conspiracy between SRAM and WBD to further price small teams and privateers out of DH racing.
But it's modular now, you only have to replace the broken part not the whole derailleur.
(Pay no attention to the fact that the individual replaceable parts are more expensive than an entire derailleur.)
I’d happily start the crowd fund campaign to get you a DH bike so you can do this in one weekend at Big Bear. Only this time, no felt or Gravity logo, Vital only.
Bikes with electronic derailleurs do not make any philosophical sense. I’d rather ride an e-bike.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The guy with the DHF tread pattern armband tattoo will have to get a coverup.
Or maybe he’ll be hyped that he’s got some ancient ink.
Or maybe he’ll get the new pattern right next to it. He’ll be looking like allover roadkill by the time he passes on to that bike park in the sky.
Yes I just want to announce ive seen that dhf tattoo guy. Like all tattoos, i’m impressed and embarrassed all at once.
he’s here isn’t he?
new shimano pedal looking awesome!
Jaxson Riddle on that new Transition freeride/dh bike that has been spotted a couple times now. Has some sort of paintjob, looking like it's closer to production?
It also costs more to build a car from parts than it does to buy one off the lot. That is how most products are.
Fire off some bottle rockets to celebrate its second coming!
I don't think anybody would expect anything different. I think the point is that SRAM parts are obscenely expensive relative to buying the whole. I don't know if these are representative, but Lost Co came up as my first google search so I'll go with that.
Eagle Transmission Derailleur - $400
Eagle 90 Mechanical Derailleur - $190
Cage Assembly - $140
If you break the cage on your electronic derailleur, you need to pony up 35% of the total cost to replace it. If you break the cage on your mechanical derailleur, you're at 74% of the cost of a new derailleur! If you break a lot of electronic transmission cages what you really need is a friend running mechanical that breaks a lot of parallelograms and is willing to split the cost.
You don’t need to buy the assembly with the clutch.
Aluminum T-Type cage: $30
https://www.performancebike.com/sram-ttype-rear-derailleur-pulley-cage-…