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Are you able to share your reasons why or your opinions on abs? I'm sure we all would love to know.
I’m not trying to win races, but locking up my rear wheel is one of my favoritest things!!
This looks like the shimano patent i saw reported a while back where the cage pivot was between the two jockey wheels.
Fairly sure i read about it on bikeradar, but quick google came back with this article : https://www.cyclingnews.com/news/is-shimano-about-to-reinvent-the-rear-derailleur/
I've definitely read something about potentially no clutch (despite them inventing it) and i wonder how this design will play with a dual spring vs the latest xtr which gets a bad rep.
At the beginning of April, DT Swiss launched their new EX1700. XD and HG Slim hubs are standard offered hubs in those complete wheels:
Do mountain bike ABS systems allow a wheel to stop while airborne? What does the system monitor to make its decisions? I guess I should start googling…
Pick a chainring size and be a dick about it? Honestly who cares. Kind of reminds me of skiing, where if you don’t ski on 130 flex boots you’re a lil bish.
I have a commute and regular guy job and live kinda far from trails. I don’t have as much free time as others to be an ascent monster. Let me enjoy my 30t ring. Don’t yuck my yum yo!!
Insecurity is a mutha!
kolb's V10 27.5 conversion dropout for XL (sorry, i had it backwards)
It depends what settings you have the system in. I wrote an article about it recently for a print magazine here in Aus. I would bet (and hope) whatever is being used here is much more advanced than anything available to the consumer currently.
Luke is happy with his current set up.
God dang I bet that stumpy feels great with the ochain
Well I hope so, I've got him on both my vital and pinkbike fantasy teams haha. Good luck this weekend!
Can somebody explain this in more detail? I would love to use something similar on my Unno Mith.
The two upper bolts go through the normal hole in the frame dropout and the lower ones clamp the whole thing togheter? The left upper one (drive side) looks to be to far backwards to go throught the hole in the droput, no?
I want it!
EDIT: Yea, it seems I confused things. That thing doesn't applly to making a mullet into a full29
Also: Chain wax is amazing, especially on e-bikes. I use a very simple mixture of 30% beeswax and 70% paraffin, and I'm really happy with it on all my bikes. Last around 200-350 km depending on condition
I think it's a modification to be able to run a 27,5 wheel in a 29er rear triangle. As the wheel is smaller, the axle needs to be lower to keep the geometry of the bike. Thus this thingamadood to lower the axle position.
I guess it's two aluminium blocks anchored in the (elongated on the V10) dropout hole to prevent rotation and bolted together as much as possible.
P.S.
Praise the lord that new saint is still mechanical
Exactly. The XL is a 29er but he wants to run a Mullet. He talked about it in the german mtb-news bike checks
Interesting, one of his favorite things about going to YT was a full 29er dh bike which was way faster when they timed it (according to him). Or is he only going mullet for this race? (Sorry, a bit out of the loop here).
This isn't even old enough to be in the OG tech rumors thread! clearly you all have been riding bikes too much to be good forum members haha
as some already clarified, it‘s a conversion for a 27,5 rear wheel, not 29. andi is running a xl v10 and that comes stock full 29, that‘s why they need these special dropouts to run 27,5 on the stock rear triangle.
edit: others were quicker replying
New Scott Spark in maybe 32“ coming?
Feel free to downvote me... But I have to chuckle a little bit every time someone complains that they need a smaller front chainring, when I used to run a 48 tooth MRP on my "All mountain." bike in Santa Cruz back in the day.
confirmed not 32", though that photo does make them look big.
And I'm sure you pedaled it uphill a lot
As someone who often thinks of the good ole days of MTB, this applies here and often to me...
He changed to MX mid way through 25 season. He stated it was easier to correct a mistake.
Wheel speed traditionally, both front and rear. Its why there is a tone wheels and wheel speed sensors.
A car ABS system will monitor the wheel speed front and rear, whilst also take in information from an accelerometer to decide if the wheels are not moving but the vehicle is. Stability control is similar, but also monitors vehicle yaw, steering input and all 4 wheel speeds and modulates pressure to individual wheels. Bosch do some pretty high end motorsport ABS systems, i'd expect they're looking at the accelerometer to determine things like if you're in the air etc.
Does it matter though? Your not going to pull the lever when your in the air (unless you don't like living) and the system won't brake by itself. Meaning user input solves the in the air problem
You must not have ever ridden moto. Using the rear brake in the air is a definite technique to bring the front end down a bit.
Rumor has it this also works on a MTB 😂
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