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Prices in the Au/NZ site include taxes, which they don’t in the US isn’t it?
My experience with linkage forks is feeling the wheel sweep left to right or right to left if the wheel is turned. If the travel sweeps through an arc with changing offset through the stroke, then as soon as the wheel is turned the axle is no longer moving parallel to the centre-plane of the bike. It can be really noticeable in tight tech.
This would give tunable anti-dive without the fuckery of a linkage-driven axle path, and I like that. But I might be an outlier because I really love tight, steep, slow tech that's always threatening to put you out the front door.
Possibly. But 10% GST in Australia so, the math still isn't mathing
Here in New England that’s going to catch all the sticks and loose rocks if you do any of the old school tech trails.
as an engineer I appreciate the continual iterative design iteration and innovation. as an internet cynic I wonder how long until he releases an actual rube goldberg device
That's also just about the current USD to AUD exchange rate
Currency Exchange Rumors and Innovation
Not knowing exactly how things work in Australia, but maybe there's a bit more than just a straight exchange rate...
Cornelius from Intend “confirmed“ that they are going to release the dropperpost called elevator in the video if the new monocoque hover shock. Right at the end…
Can’t be long for the official release
What are we speculating he will do differently with this new dropper?
Yes there is.
It's called the "getting fingered tax"
Pinkbike posted an article about that floating front brake setup. It mentioned it was seen at Vital first. Maybe the first time they’ve acknowledged that??
Yeah sorry I brought it up
And a direct link here too. I really hope DoubleCrownAddict doesn't see it.
Hopefully, something novel like going down without needing rider weight. If it is just another post, it will be disappointing.
0 play weather extended or retracted, light, compact, easy to FULLY service would be great to see and if reasonably priced I’d probably consider it over the latest One Up perhaps
To match the fork
Milyard racing or Hover shock. What would win?
We will see about the dropper post but their prototype dropper lever had a really cool design and how it integrated the cable tension adjustment.
Reasonably priced… it’s Intend. Love their stuff, but none of it was reasonably priced so far. Even if the price is justified through production volume/company size etc.
However, I am curious, too, what Cornelius came up with…
On the other hand, compared to large players, it's not really unreasonably priced. It's not much more expensive than what Fox charges for their top of the line products in many cases. But it is a lot more niche.
Even if he does see it, he's been suspended alongside SaucyCheese so he can't say much of anything.
I think that Cornelius has completely outclassed Fox in the Upsidedown fork space. Options, quality, weight, price, reliability, performance, etc. Intend wins on every aspect.
What the Podium did for me, is make me really interested in the Intend...
I mean, everything seems reasonably priced to me
Context is important
Cranks are beautifully machined and 280€
A set of gx cranks around 100€ online, mass produced vs machined and hard anodized in Germany by a SMALL company,
The shock is 1100, comes custom tuned, a Fox X2 blows and retails around the 800€
Same goes with the forks
1650€ for a flash with perfect bushings and all and it’s almost the same for a fox 38 x2, again mass produced in Asia vs something from a tiny company in Germany.
Not cheap, but for what it is I’d say reasonably priced
genuine question, how hard is it to get support for intend n NA? either full service or parts for DIY? It always scared me off of niche Euro based product. I've been more likely to consider Push, simply because they are this side of the ocean.
Actofive charges 400 eur for cranks that are heavier than GX cranks. And the two piece glued cranks are no longer available (I wonder if it was the price or delaminating that killed them).
The price for those was very very high if I recall correctly
So probably that, although the Garbaruk are similar construction and like half the price or so
Actofive was 800 msrp.
Check out the Preston Petty No-Dive, from decades ago folks:
There were quite a few variations of Torque Arm Anti Dive set ups tried in Motorcycling - predominantly Road Racing, plus, a some hydraulic set ups - a few of which reached production Motorcycle models.
I've a couple of Preston's No-Dives, somewhere in my workshop, along with a few of his Fenders / Mudguards and his Headlights.
All of the Anti Dive systems basically 'disappeared'.
FWIW, modern F1 cars have quite a bit of anti-dive geometry in the front and anti-squat geometry in the rear, preventing the car from pitching back and forth during braking and accelerating to keep the aero platform (the underbody) as stable as possible and thus the downforce as consistent as possible.
The result of this is a lot less feedback to the driver (either way you cut it, any kind of movement or lean is a feedback on what the vehicle is doing) and some teams had and have a lot of problems with their drivers not being confident int he car and sometimes locking up the fronts very easily. Could some of this also apply to anti-dive setups for motorbikes and bicycles? So besides bringing some good stuff also bringing with them negatives?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DQcWQJqgf3o/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Starting to make me question if we've been trolled and it's an e-bike...