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I used to run my Tues with a bit of tire/seat interference. It made noise but it wasn't like jamming the brakes on at all. I expect it depends heavily on the seat and how much interference there is but they're not gonna set their bike up so it fucks up their run if they use too much travel...

Aww I was appreciating the novelty of being ignored and was hoping for a good 5 pages of speculation of what it could be

Charging wire/port for the shifting mechanism of the gearbox I believe.

I've not had a good experience with rotors from ali. I've bought two and both have a very non-uniform thickness. the brakes pulsed in a very noticeable way.

Keyword being "might". Average sized riders have the advantage of choice.

If you scale down your XXL hightower chainstays relative to our difference in heights, it's like me riding a bike with 408mm chainstays (i'm 5'11"). You've been riding bikes with chainstay lengths on the wrong side of playful for your entire mtb life, so it makes sense that longer chainstays feel more playful. I love short stays but I would...

Considering that we've got the Marz Shiver, the Manitou Dorado, and the Rockshox RS-1, the statement is completely stupid whatever way you want to swing it.

That's pretty funny. The whole discussion is completely meaningless without camber/rocker/sidecut/stiffness/width/area being taken into account. Almost as meaningless as this thread i suppose. You can chunk up bike design into fairly separate parts - geo/wheel path, kinematics, stiffness.. to a point anyway, they're still very interconnected obviously. But you can nail one and not the other. Ski design is holistic...

video of seanfisseli riding when? I want to see how absolutely fucking fast and shreddy he gets to prove his superior opinion. Absolute hubris.

Sean is going to need you to describe and define "embarrassing", he's not convinced that it exists.

People get angry with you because you ignore other people's opinions. Go watch moimoi test the frameworks enduro bike, discover it's less flickable than he expects, then discover later on that the chainstay is long and that's what he was feeling. It has always meant something that's less stable, more dynamic, more bmxy, and it's weird AF to pretend that...

Yep, a part of "flickability" is getting weight on the rear easily and higher bars help with that. We have to remember though that flickability doesn't exist. Sean said so. He has an important opinion here even though he can't actually understand what it even means.

where did I mention shralps? Even if it was all about shralps, you mentioned you can't shralp a corner anyway, so how would you know?

Why the fuck did you read my prior comment about what "flickable" means, like it, and then post that? I feel like you ride in a way that doesn't suit a short chainstay bike, you're just not interested in entertaining the idea that other people do, and you don't like that they have words to describe how those bikes ride...

Don't worry, I used to date a geologist. Our soil here is actual loam, not mtber loam

One of my friends has t-rex arms and ended up getting professional help with his on-bike posture/setup/fit. He ended up on a wild Dak-style setup with ~80mm risers on his enduro bike and said it was like night and day, didn't realise how unbalanced he was or how limited his movement on the bike was. I really don't like how...

One thing that i don't think has been mentioned is that a longer chainstay can help make a bike feel smaller if you've sized up, in certain ways. If you don't need to lean forward onto your bars as much to get the right amount of weight onto the front wheel, then you can get away with a shorter stem/more...