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AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/30/2025 12:46am Downhill bikes i guess, but they usually have super slack STAs which would affect the performance I am sure.
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AgrAde Added a reply to Modern Geo Talk: Chainstays, Stack, Reach, and Bitching About It
8/27/2025 4:29pm I'd agree with you on bar height. I swap between a high stack bike with big risers and an alt-drop-bar hardtail that puts me roughly in a world cup XC slammed flat bar position. And honestly I can get shreddy on either. It really doesn't hold me back. I'd be going the same speed on the same trails if I...
AgrAde Added a reply to Kinematics
8/25/2025 1:01am Yeah duh, sorry. It's been too long since I've pissed around with this stuff.
AgrAde Added a reply to Antique Specialized Pitch Comp
8/24/2025 1:44am Yup. I wouldn't spend a cent on it with the exception of necessary maintenance, and a cheap second hand externally routed dropper post. Every bike deserves a dropper. The pitch was a good bike for the time, and it has aged well (more like less poorly than most bikes, at least. most bikes from that era are tragic). Very short...
AgrAde Added a reply to Kinematics
8/25/2025 1:40am The reason I told you to check out this thread is mainly because you used the word "fabricating". Haha. I thought that sounded like you were going to spend a bit of time and effort making it, and thought it was worth putting a bit of proper design work into it before making something that might not do what you...
AgrAde Added a reply to Feedback/chain growth in relation to chainring/main pivot distance in single pivots...
8/23/2025 12:06am Honestly, get a copy of linkage and play around with it. And read the kinematics thread.
AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/13/2025 11:35pm Screw that, I don't want to have to disconnect my brake hose just to mount it to a fork. I hate the internally routed rear enough.
AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/7/2025 6:01pm That paint is sick but the black bit of the front triangle looks like a repair job where they couldn't be arsed matching the paint.
AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/7/2025 4:10pm The question is why is the fuel now a freeride bike? (Almost) Started out as an XC bike right? Not complaining but it is weird.
AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/7/2025 2:15am It's really nice to be in a place where newer bikes aren't necessarily better, and we're not sure of the obvious path to take to make a bike better. Not good for brands, but certainly good for us.
AgrAde Added a reply to Kinematics
8/6/2025 4:16pm There's nothing to get lost about. He's made a fairly conventional linkage system that has high overall anti-squat and antirise. It just looks whack and he's talking buffoonery. It doesn't go any deeper.
AgrAde Added a reply to Kinematics
8/6/2025 12:40am Matt Beer can ride a bike but he has said some bafflingly wrong shit in the past when talking about how bikes work. He's not a great resource for technical stuff IMO. edit: and if you disagree then go and read his "article" about fork offset and compare it to how steering geometry actually works. It's confused and mostly backwards.
AgrAde Added a reply to Kinematics
8/6/2025 1:18am Just gonna leave this here. Figured I'd include something with low AS (giga) as well as high AS (SB160). Chose the yeti to show how pointless it is to drop AS at the end of the travel to limit kickback. What part of the travel are we using when we're smashing over chop again? Oh yeah the bit where it's...
AgrAde Added a reply to Kinematics
8/5/2025 6:04pm I especially loved the "it's all in linkage! Look at these graphs!" Yet they didn't post the kickback graphs in particular despite the no kickback claims. He's so full of shit.
noideamtber Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/1/2025 9:49pm
Are you sure you're not talking about the cheese AR30? Those are awful rims. the ARC30 Is quite good, Im not a light weight and it got thrashed over summer at QT skyline and CAP.(+ other places) - i was not kind to it, its killed many tyres
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sprungmass Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/1/2025 7:38pm
Average VitalMTBer as described by pinkishbike https://www.instagram.com/p/DM0qNx0xHwl
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AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/1/2025 1:20am The annoying thing about mountain biking is that there's such a huge difference in abilities, and those differences mean that high performance bikes are heavier while prebuilt/cheaper bikes are lighter because it's "higher performance" even though it isn't. It affects rims more than anything else I reckon. Products that we'd destroy in one run can last for years under 90%...
AgrAde Added a reply to Modern Geo Talk: Chainstays, Stack, Reach, and Bitching About It
8/1/2025 4:57am Yeah if you have adjustable chainstays then you're basically adjusting the length of the lever that actuates the shock, so lengthening your chainstays will slightly decrease your spring (and damper) rate at the wheel, while correspondingly giving you slightly more travel. It's pointless to consider the actual length of the lever, because it doesn't physically exist, nor is it possible...
AgrAde Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/31/2025 2:24am 1) I think you're at the exact peak of the Dunning Kruger graph here. 2) That was a hint to get this discussion out of this thread.
AgrAde Added a reply to Modern Geo Talk: Chainstays, Stack, Reach, and Bitching About It
7/31/2025 2:19am Oh ok you're one of those. Cool. Please define what you consider a "chainstay" succinctly in a way that actually covers all suspension layouts. I understand suspension dynamics and the concept of leverage quite well. The final year of my degree was mostly concerned with mountain bike suspension design and a fair amount of my experience in engineering has involved...
