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Whoops, I didn't even notice the color difference. It's definitely a new seatstay so that answers that. Thanks.
Yes thanks for the pic!
It’s from the red site, spotted article from the spring. I guess you just confirmed it as blistein. There was a coil version too, unsure about fork.
begrudgingly, i've started a 32-inch wheel forum thread. not because i like the idea of them but because at crankworx, way too many people i talked to said they're not going away.
https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/32-inch-wheels-and-mountain-bikes
Looking forward to vehemently redirecting anything and everything to do with 32 in wheels to that thread in the future, despite all things 32 inch wheel still constituting rumours and innovation at this point.
I contend 32" wheels are no longer a rumor as they're a real thing in existence nor an innovation as it's nothing more than a bigger circle.
aw man i'm so bummed that there is already a next gen Boxxer being spotted out in the wild.
Maybe its just me, but it feels like the D1 Boxxer only came out yesterday?! I've been putting together a mini midlife crisis DH bike, finally got my self a V10.7 frameset and just a few weeks back ordered a new D1 Boxxer ultimate for the build. First time I've spent £1600 on a fork... and its already out dated 😹
But... I'm reeeallllly wanting to know what is being hidden beside the disc mount?? Logic suggests its likely something to do with the air spring since its on the left leg, but maybe not?
Usually when brands cover up proto frames to build hype, it kinda makes me cringe - like whatever man we all know its just a daft new linkage - I don't care much.
But I admit that they really got me wondering whats under that cover on the new Zeb and Boxxer - WTF IS IT!?
I'm annoyed at my self because I know this exactly the stupid hype that they want.
But again, cant believe the D1 is gonna be old soon
Wonder if we may see a 29 front 32 rear for a medium height xc rider considering the negative rise stem and high seat post you often see on 29er set ups.
I'd bet it's SRAM no doubt putting their twist on another Vorsprung product (Secus)
Why innovate when you can copy a small manufacturers homework.
yeah something airspring related seems most logical - kinda looks like the form factor might be too small for something like Secus though? But I agree that its most likely someting similar to Secus
Theres patents shown on the other site from a couple years back suggesting a shockwiz could be integrated into the fork leg - but shockwiz seemed a bit shit, I never tried it but a friend who did said it seemed to give suggested settings that didnt make much sense or didnt make the fork/shock feel much better. So not sure they'd put much effort to bring that into production.
Obvs some sort of new flight attendant or axs related gubbins is a possibility.
New Boxxer has integrated Ochain in the air spring.
Some cool parts on Greg Minnaar Norco. Stills from @LoamWolf IG video
Shockwiz can be a bit shit, but it can also be quite good. I'm very surprised that it doesn't receive frequent firmware updates to improve the calculations.
The irony of the current Shockwiz is that only people who are already interested, and thus might already have somewhat well adjusted suspension will have taken the time and spent the money to use it. Those people might also have developed preferences for non-algorithmically-optimal suspension.
Most riders, if they even know that there are knobs on their shocks, have terribly set up suspension and no interest in spending time adjusting it or learning how it operates.
For most riders if an integrated Shockwiz system only asked them to over inflate their suspension - and then took its measurements, adjusted it's clickers, and bled some pressure until a neutral result was achieved it would almost certainly be an improvement.
Of course you'd need a "pro-mode" where personal preference can be accounted for to market this as an expert feature. I'm sure having a bike learn a race course on practice runs until a race-ready green light illuminated would be reassuring to athletes who have shock gurus to turn their dials for them. If I were Sram I'd trademark the terms "A.I. Jordi" and "Jordi La Fourche".
HOW IS SHIMANO STILL ON 200MM ROTORS?!?!?!?!
They just let everyone else make the rotors for them..
well they do make the rt66 in 220 but its flexy and stamped. vibrates quite a bit at high speeds.
Im more worried about their 1.8 thing, most brands have moved on from thin rotors.
I'm willing to bet whatever is in the rockshox hump is performance based rather than a shockwiz or similar. I asked a few Sram athletes and a couple industry industry insiders informally about it. Everyone remained tight lipped other than saying things like "it really works."
I was told that riding the new rockshox stuff made riding their new fox podium less exciting
Been a while since we've had any updates on a new Spesh Enduro, anyone heard anything? (pictured in the back ground)
IIRC mixed wheel sizes are only allowed in DH and Enduro by the UCI rules.
Some riders have been using smaller rotors to help with power modulation of the new brakes. I’ve seen Myriam Nicole on a 180mm on her V5 paired with the new Maven. Maybe Shimano is working on larger sizes in the background
It's sad that as soon as SRAM purchased shockwiz they consigned it to abandonware. The tech was so cool and it certainly succeeded as a proof of concept, it's a shame the sole major update the platform ever got made it significantly worse for nerd users, which, let's be honest - that's who was actually going to buy the thing other than shops as a fun add-on to bike setup and demo programs.
My one sentence review of the Shockwiz is "If the sticker on the back of your fork can get you 80% of the way to properly tuned suspension, a Shockwiz will get you to 90%". Lots of potential but ultimately pretty whatever.
Nope nothing it has been very sillent since then.
Looks like there are some new dropouts with UDH from Banshee. Or a new rear triangle.
Source: IG Tydeman.Newman
This guy made his own udh dropouts a few months back
Only reason they bought it was the endless database of how ppls forks and shocks behave.
They do a product launch every September. I’d imagine anything new will be released for all in the coming weeks
If it was coming this year I assumed they'd drop it at Crankworx,but maybe there is too much other distraction and they wanted some attention space. Fingers crossed
Add to the mix is Kenevo SL is due an update, big Kenevo has been out for a long while.
Could they multi platform all four ?
1: https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/32-inch-wheels-and-mountain-bikes
2: Mixed wheel sizes in XC:
Asked some shop folks about the 9/9 speci launch and they claimed it’s a diverge. That plus the rumor about the long travel Levo link makes me wonder if we will ever see a new enduro… pretty risky for speci to put out a 170 bike that their team won’t race when they could just put out an LT link for the bikes that they’re already selling, and doing enduro builds on those. Get another year of selling stumpy and Levo frame tooling…
Either that or it’s all misdirection lol.