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I tried out a proto version of these pedals for a few months and they were great. Grip levels similar (a smidge less) to a deity supervilan, but with a bit easier to re-position your foot.
Regarding the nomad 7, I'm a bit surprised that the front shock mount doesn't push further into the front triangle like the ht5/b5 do. I am/was really hoping that the n7 would have a wheel size flip chip. I don't have a ton of reason to run my nomad 6 with a 29 rear wheel, but I can see the logic of discontinuing the mt2 with how good the hightower 4 is. I have a hightower 4 myself, and as an enduro race bike, it is plenty fast and way faster at generating speed then the megatower 2 was and of course, it's a great trail bike. It would just be nice to have the long travel bruiser have a bit of wheel size flexibility. I don't see much on the frame that suggests that is going to be possible, unless there is a different set of links to achieve that. Lastly, it does look like the glove box bumps up slightly from the profile of the downtube. At least in this other photo that was posted of the bike in a stand.
Honestly the extra forces are massive. It has less to do with the fork's axle to crown and much to do with the flex you get out of a single crown. A dual crown will transfer (almost) all of that front to back flex to the frame so the difference is far from subtle.
As someone who has broken many frames near the head tube, I won't buy a trail bike that can't take a dual crown.
Also as someone who kills CSUs faster than they come off the factory line, I now run a dual crown on my pedal bike and not looking back.
Don't think every bike needs to be ready to go oh so hard, but I have definitely had friends talk about how they wish they the nomad would say yes to a dual crown. Looks like it's going in the other direction.
If you draw a free body diagram you’ll find that the forces are the same for a given A2C length. Stiffness doesn’t change forces applied.
Dual crown rated mostly means that it won’t instantly be destroyed if a fork bumper hits the side of the frame.
I did email santacruz once about putting a dual crown on my nomad 6. They said (obviously) that it was officially not supported and stated the frame was more then stiff enough for a dual crown fork, but not reinforced for the fork bumpers hitting the side of the head tube. They did say to officially, un-officially send pictures if i followed through with it, and told me that despite being rad... it would completely void the warranty.
In static cases that is true, in dynamic cases the stiffness influences the peak force that is transmitted.
For high frequency loads it can.
AFAIK Hucking to flat or nose casing a jump would be a low frequency load and it would be reasonable to approximate it as static and assume that full force is transferred.
I honestly can’t see it to be true if the pins are the same as the stock ones
I put them on a bike and the foot could spin easily like I had no pins
Even my beaten up rounded pins dmr vaults had way more grip, the pins edge are rounded and polished, that’s just plain stupid if the goal is to dig and grip
The glovebox on the Stigmata has the same "bump". I'd theorize it gives more room inside, since the mechanism for the door would fight for space with the frame bag if you packed it tight on my MT V2.
I'm pretty bummed if the Megatower is going away. A friend said they think it isn't, new one is launching soon but I haven't seen anything to indicate that.
Just don’t crash then 🤪
Thank you. This was my thought, too.
If you drive a car without a crumple zone into a brick wall at high speed, even though the same total force is being applied to the wall and to your body, your body and the wall will notice a difference compared to hitting the same wall at the same speed in a car with a crumple zone.
In this analogy, the dual crown fork is the car w/o a crumple zone, transmitting all the force immediately to the headtube area, and the single crown fork is the car w/ a crumple zone, stretching out the time and peak dynamic forces being transmitted to the headtube area.
I think hucking to flat or nose casing a jump are both examples of extremely high frequency loads. A low frequency load would be a frame and fork bolted into a hydraulic test rig in a lab, where the force is cranked up slowly and consistently.
Think about shaft speeds on a damper. Either one of those impacts would be considered a very high frequency (aka high shaft speed) impact, even if they don't literally happen over and over again at a high frequency. Just because I'm not hucking to flat 5 times per second doesn't mean I'm not applying the force at the same rate as if I was hucking to flat 5 times per second.
I feel like there has got to be a better thread for this convo…
cushcore's newest wonder tool - https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/rotary-tire-tool-radically-fast-and-easy-tire-changes
The funny thing is... the garbage can is still the most important tool for cushcore install....
queue @CascadeComponents for blingy aftermarket trash can upgrades?
that could have changed my life on OG Enve wheels, cushcore when they literally first came out, and wire bead DH Maxxis.... but here I am. somehow still alive after that one.
Thank God reserves, CC, and Maxxis DH can be done with just hands now
So glad I bought a new Frameworks Enduro frame instead not that I needed any more confirmation than the first ride though. If those geometry numbers are correct then that's pretty sad.
Funny though if you added 20mm of stack and a 10mm rear flip chip for rear center length it would be instantly relevant. Ah well.
Glovebox is all new on the nomad and a lot nicer. It isn't hard plastic anymore so should seal a bit better.
I seem to remember the spy shot of Nina on what everyone speculated was a proto Nomad had a dual crown. Maybe they'll hop on the trend of releasing an alloy "DH" version that comes specced with a dual crown?
What DC do you run? The MRP one?
Billet trash can!
I've got to say, Horst link bikes that have the shock mounted to the seat stay just feel a bit dead to me, mounting it to the rocker or link just feels a lot more lively. No idea why
Nahh 35mm boxxer.
Happy to get into details in some suspension thread,let's leave this one at being content with seeing more Enduro adjacent frames offer that option
Can someone with better pause-skills than me see what Zerode is teasing in their recent Instagram post?
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXECaeMlAfD/?igsh=NncxYm4xbnZneGxx
Nah, that’s small potatoes. This is clearly a 3D printed titanium scenario.
Or Freedom coast
I want to know who keeps downvoting me! Someone is a hater. 🤔😛
I've always though Cushcore was missing a good April 1 jab with green trash cans. Or honestly as a real promo most shops would take a green trash bin. #realorfake
who failed ? The engineer who designed the caps for hexagon bolts? Or the fitter who just crammed in some Allen screws?
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