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The front brake/rear brake thing really comes down to terrain and riding style, but mostly terrain. There are trails where it's easier for me to accidentally make my rear tire skid, and other trails where it's easier for me to accidentally make my front tire skid. If grip is good on a trail, my weight is typically going to shift forward when I brake, loading the front tire and creating grip there while unloading the rear. On trails like that my front brake is going to do most of the work slowing me down, which is what we would typically...

@sspomer prize money would be 100k with 150,000 paid viewers not 1.5 million viewers

women's elite full replay

Apparently steep

Worth noting- broadcast pricing is planned to start at ~$10 USD (depending on exchange rate at the time). This won’t be a normal race broadcast as you know it- we are building out a full show, and when racing goes live we’ll have 40+ cameras on course.

Here we go, the all-new "Beyond Gravity" race in Maydena has just been announced, with a new event model that aims to provide a generous prize purse and a share in broadcast revenues for the athletes. You can read all the details here: https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/190000-prize-purse-minimum-beyond-g…. TLDR: The race will use most of the Red Bull Hardline course, but with added focus on rider safety and weather-proofing of many sections. Rider numbers will be low with 25 invited riders (including both male and female riders) + 5 local wild cards who will act as reserves during the week. There's impressive potential for...

lebron and canyon prove 32" wheels are best for tall people 🤣 (non MTB...it's crazy how proportionally correct it looks)

A linkage in and of itself cannot. A linkage can 100% make a set up that is more supportive not sit too high in travel and not feel overly harsh towards top of travel. If someone were to not need that level out of support out of the shock, they certainly could run less compression damping and not be wrong. It’s not like the leverage curve is pushing the spring rate so high that rebound can’t be tuned to match. At the end of the day I wouldn’t necessarily say a manufacturers recommended tune for a bike is the end...

Another analogy - trail data or rider feedback is like going to the doctor - they will ask you questions, measure heart rate and blood pressure - thats like data acquisition and finding the symptoms, but getting more answers needs something like blood tests or an x-ray. They might not tell you the actual cause but they give much more information about whats going on

This is all great info, and thanks to everyone who answered my question. We're really spoiled here in the Vital forums.

Oh and the data card at the back of the machine - Typical peak speeds are about 6-8m/s on downhill bike forks, and shocks will be up to around 2.5-3m/s. Most dampers "should" be fairly linear up to those max speeds - some aren't by design, but its rare for the ports to "choke" and start generating excessively high rates at those speeds (despite what some people think). It's more likely that high acceleration causes issues (so very high frequency but relatively low speed) which is why the linear actuator dynos exist.

A 5 foot huck to flat could probably get you to an inital shaft speed of around 5m/s or 5000mm/s. Simple equation: time to drop = (2*height/g)^(1/2) so sqrt of 2*5/32 = .56s Speed at impact -> speed = time * acceleration or .56 g aka .56*32=17.92ft/s. You can do some more math to figure out how landing slope angle and head angle affect shaft speed, but it's not that important. If a huck to flat gets you to 5m/s i bet you can find bumps that do more. Another limitation of dyno charts: spiking occurs where exactly? Oh, off...

Hand dyno is basically just jerking off a shock. Need a load cell and velocity sensor to be able to generate graphs. The big flaw of the shock/damper dyno is it only tells you what it tells you, it's isolating things. So like in a real suspension system you have the chassis and the spring and those things interact in complex ways. If you watch video tours of fox R&D they seem to maybe dyno whole forks, but looks to be purely vertically which eliminates a lot of the side loading that happens in real life (actually loading the bushings...

Here's a dumb question, but when we talk about dyno charts for suspension components, what does the actual dyno machine look like, and what does the typical dyno test look like? Is a dyno test always necessarily an automated machine process, or can it be reliably performed manually in a hand dyno? Are there different types of dyno machines, or is every suspension brand and independent tuner pretty much using the same machine? How much do dyno test protocols vary between suspension brands and tuning shops? And if there are different machines, is data from one machine or test protocol...

[edit: quoted, but this is not meant in response to any previous post or user in particular] As someone who designs and manufactures aftermarket components to upgrade 'big suspension' put me on the record in their defense. I think they actually do a remarkable job at what is really an impossible task. Imagine designing something within the small confines of an MTB fork and the accepted dimensional standards. Make it light enough and cheap enough for what the market demands at retail and OEM. Manufacture and assemble it at massive scale to acceptably high QC standards, align dozens of critical...