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isnt that exactly the travel range the pike currently covers?

Lawlor will be at Worlds, Whistler and Lake Placid.

DUDE I don’t really THINK that I DO

Her name is Rosa Marie Jensen

It's a shame there is no way to adjust the height of your handlebars.If you bike's stack is 10mm lower than you'd like you just have to put up with it.It's really unfortunate.

Considering your bike has a ratio of 1.93 which is quite very very high, that makes sense. You need to be way lower and over the front for any traction on that bike. This in an XL is 1.82, therefor, low stack will just be a load more front end weight through geo than you are used to. Thats where the higher stack would aid in a better feeling (subjective) riding position and still maintaining good front end weight. You don't NEED to ride over the front as heavily anymore because the geo already naturally is giving you more front...

I cannot, which could tell you something.

Quick correction- Hammerschimdt had an overdrive, opposite of the hub thing. Pedaling in low, it was just a 22 or 24 tooth chainring. Going up gave you a 1.6 overdrive, and that's when you felt the gears meshing. Climbing gears were just as efficient as a single ring, except for the extra weight.

They are also talking about Classified planetary gear hubs… a soon to be dead like Hammercshmidt technology. An external deraileur based drivetrain will always be lighter and more efficient than the losses you get in planetary gears. From a bicycle dynamics perspective, adding a massive amount of unsprung mass to your rear wheel is horrible. I had a Classified hub in for evaluation on my drop bar bikes…. even on a fully rigid bike riding on pavement and blue machine built singletrack the excessive rear wheel weight from the classified system feels just as crappy as running a Rohloft out...

do you need to post your annoying ad into every fucking thing you post? no i don‘t need a place to store my suspension settings, thanks for asking

2x drive trains were horrible, end of story.

What if we tried putting a small derailleur on the front cogs, may be just like 2-3 gears, then a 5-7 speed cassette on the rear with another smaller derailleur? Same ratios but better weight distribution?

As long as this is now an "innovation of CVTs for bikes" thread, I think it's key to point out that the conventional 1x12 drive train is roughly constant efficiency in all gears, slight worse for cross-chaining, and slight worse for smaller cogs due to increased internal friction in the chain links bending around small cogs. There's data for this kind of thing online. When we are talking about gearboxes with and without CVTs, we still have to pay most of the efficiency loss that a conventional drivetrain sees, since we still need a belt or chain to reach from...

I'll be dead before new saint drops.

I got feed a Shimano Saint ad of all things on youtube last night...

It's a good question, because how we define and categorize these terms can hopefully spare us from another dreadful, circular, definitional forum argument. I think the two scenarios you describe are two completely different qualities, which I would describe as 1) rolling speed and 2) cornering grip (or maybe just "cornering" generally). For instance, for all our friends in the American SE who ride on super hardpacked, smooth, and relatively flat decomposed granite, rolling speed is super important for having any fun at all on your bike ride. A MaxxGrip DH casing Assegai is going to carry great speed through...

“”This stuff is complicated, which makes it hard to properly test and show and explain. People want to hear that such and such tire is the best ever bar none, but in reality the answer is always going to be: it depends. There’s just a lot of nuance“” Wrong. The best tire is a MINION DHF. Always. Long live Colin Bailey in all his wisdom and glory.

Slow clap. Part of the reason why road bikes came with 19-23mm tires pumped up to 120+ psi is because they felt faster than bigger or softer tires, and because of flawed test methodology (testing tires on smooth steel drums in a lab vs. testing on real asphalt). I've heard a lot of people in the tire forum say that radials roll slower, and they certainly might. But until I see actual test results using a methodology that makes sense, I'm going to assume that no one knows the answer to that question.

I have both a singlespeed and Zerode Katipo with 12spd analog Pinion gearbox. Constant drive lines FTW. Never having to worry about maintaining, hearing or shearing off a derailleur is far worth any drag compromise. Any noticeable "drag" is on gears higher than 6-7, plus shifting from say 5th to 2nd gear is instant, not a massive clunky chain moving event. That said I don't see current gearboxes being relevant for anything less than enduro or heavy duty trail bike applications. /2c