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AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

10/12/2024 3:43am
One step at a time. First we need journalists in the industry that understand how bikes actually function, and understand their own biases. Most are a fucking joke (looking at you, everyone at pinkbike except Kaz).
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AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

10/10/2024 4:30am
Indeed. I've ridden inverted forks on bikes and Motos plenty. We all get to have our opinions on how we like things to ride. The "but Motos use them" argument doesn't really hold up imo. We use our forks so differently and ride such different terrain.
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AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

10/9/2024 4:44pm
I'm happy to agree that a complete lack of torsional stiffness is something that some people enjoy. I assume that they also like flexy frames like Pole or Yeti or that old intense tracer that would spit you out of corners in random directions, but if you were delicate they'd track around bumps rather than over them. Couldn't imagine anything...
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AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

10/9/2024 10:40am
Agree, everything goes out the window when talking DH forks. The torsional stiffness of the 35mm boxxer feels great due to the double crown and 20mm axle and wider set stanchions, but the bending stiffness is arse and it really affects the plushness and steering. They feel a bit shit compared to 38s or 40s when you've put a big...
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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...
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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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louiesquared Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

9/26/2024 12:35pm
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If you're using a multitool on every ride you need to improve your maintenance routine.
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AgrAde Added a comment about press release Introducing the All-New STATUS 2

7/19/2024 9:41pm
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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