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AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/9/2024 7:34am The bending stiffness of a tube increases to the fourth power with respect to diameter... Ie bigger tubes are way fucking stiffer than smaller tubes. But steerers are flexy, crowns are flexy, and axle interfaces are flexy. If you put some effort into locking the two tubes together then they work together and will flex together, and this also massively...
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AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/9/2024 7:09am There's nothing wrong with 34mm, stanchion diameter isn't everything when building a stiff fork. Feels like we're in a bit of an arms race to use bigger and bigger stanchions. I'm guilty of it... Went from a 36 to a 38 when my favourite fork chassis is a 35mm lyrik... And my gravel/xc bike has a 35mm pike lol. Look...
AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/30/2024 11:56am Yup. Esp now that bikes are scaling better with size.
AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/30/2024 9:37am Given that it's almost certainly a different main pivot position, it gives a clue that they're tweaking kinematics (most likely anti-squat) for every size. This is important because AS changes with wheelbase and with respect to the height of the centre of the sprung mass, which is obviously different for different sizes and different rider heights. Even if they might...
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9/26/2024 12:35pm
If you're using a multitool on every ride you need to improve your maintenance routine.
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AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/26/2024 12:34pm I think I use my multi tool once or twice a season... What are you using it for on every ride? I'm genuinely curious.
AgrAde Added a comment about press release Introducing the All-New STATUS 2
7/19/2024 9:41pm
Like the last Status, the front triangle is very different between the two travel options. You can't convert one to the other (unless you want to replace front triangle, shock, and yoke.)
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AgrAde Added a reply to Is it the Bike or the Rider?
1/19/2024 1:27pm Well, I struggled to keep up with Justin Leov the one time I rode with him. He was on an old flogged-out XC bike. With a fork that wasn't working properly. And plastic soled XC shoes with the wrong cleats for his pedals so he couldn't actually clip in. That told me all I need to know.
AgrAde Added a reply to Kinematics
1/9/2024 11:08pm Anyone who has smashed shit with a hammer can identify with how rough it is on the bike to hit a harsh bottom out and shock load everything between your feet and the wheels.
AgrAde Added a reply to e-Bikes and Number of Cassette Cogs
12/10/2023 2:29am Went on a ride a couple days ago where i was very glad to have the 52t, very glad to have the 10t, and very glad to have a lot of options in between. Wouldn't swap the wide range 12 speed for anything else personally. That was on a full power ebike on a technical backcountry ride. The argument that...
AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
12/2/2023 3:34pm Orange make a functional mountain bike. That thing never will be. Considering the seatpost insertion it's not even drawn by someone who mountain bikes, and given the design choices elsewhere i would've thought it was probably put together by an industrial design student for a project.
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12/2/2023 1:15am lmao
AgrAde Added a reply to Kinematics
11/14/2023 2:46am Thanks. Yeah I think we're on a pretty similar page. I'd prefer the AR to fall at a higher rate than it does, but I think that it should be passable as is. The high pivot VPP (or HPV Peepee linkage as i call it lol) moves the IC forward and slightly down as it compresses to get the falling...
AgrAde Added a reply to Kinematics
11/14/2023 12:09am I'm not from Alabama lol. I'm not even from North America. I'm in New Zealand and there is definitely riding here that calls for the weirdo machine. Both products were interesting in their own respects. The Craftworks was an incredible show of engineering and packaging. The bike's kinematics were on an absolute knife edge. The bike feels perfect, and balanced...
AgrAde Added a reply to Kinematics
11/13/2023 1:28am Also worth mentioning is things like the Trust forks. They have significant anti-dive. I spent a while riding a craftworks ENR high pivot bike with a Trust Shout on the front. The braking performance of that bike was fucking insane. https://www.vitalmtb.com/community/AgrAde,35595/setup,40730
AgrAde Added a reply to Kinematics
11/12/2023 11:22pm @Cascade, Have you done much/are you happy to comment on any testing you've done regarding the tuning of AR on a bike, and how it interacts with suspension/shock setup? I agree with you in that I prefer high AR bikes, but I find that a high AR bike will expose a lot of flaws in suspension setup... Slow or unbalanced...
AgrAde Added a reply to Kinematics
11/12/2023 10:52pm Kinda/kinda not. There are two entirely separate effects at play that can be described as AS, and bike designers account for both effects to give a total amount of AS. Only one of which having anything to do with the chain. Those are described in the op... Kickback is basically the "equal and opposite reaction" part of the chain tension...
AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/11/2023 4:30am Indeed. Which is why I have this on the go. Pretty? not really. Nails the kinematics and functionality though, for me. Please ignore the unfinished business in many areas.
AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/10/2023 10:57pm Indeed. Though unless you're using a high pivot bike with an idler, the natural AS you get from the suspension geometry is pretty low and so AS is fairly well directly related to PK. Bikes that drop off the AS later in the stroke are doing it to drop the PK rate rather than drop the AS itself, and so...
AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/9/2023 2:50am IMO dropping AS off deep into the travel like Yeti does, or the majority of horst link bikes do, is pointless. You get pedal kickback when the rate that your suspension is compressing exceeds the pedal kickback rate. And if your suspension is compressing quickly enough at the very bottom of your suspension stroke to engage your freehub at that...