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I'll fly the pro USD flag, although I'm very biased... I think you're slightly underestimating the nuance between an amazing fork and a crap fork. At this point you might have rode two forks of the same manufacturer and model but yet they feel vastly different. To me, that's down to fork manufacturing being on the knifes edge of production manufacturing tolerances. For example, 4-6lbs of extra seal drag is garbage, .25deg misalignment of tubes is total garbage, and if a 14" long stanchion deviates more than .0004" (human hair is ~.002") - steaming hot garbage. You might say those...

on that note, just so everyone here is aware, there won't be vital videos from loudenvielle (or andorra or lenzerheide) this year. we decided to put our budget towards covering all of the domestic Pro DH series rounds and TN National races this year instead of full WC calendar. hopefully there's an Ed Bull RAW to keep us stoked LOL. lawlor will be back at Leogang.

Sorry for a minor derail, but you mentioned my favorite ski of all time (Head Monster 103 Team). This might actually be a perfect (inverse) analog for USD forks. That ski wasn’t actually that stiff longitudinally, but the two layers of metal made it quite torsionally stiff. It held an edge through chop because you could bend the ski but it didn’t deflect. The key was you had to check your ego and ride the ‘correct’ size and not try to look cool with a 193 in the lift line. Where it did suck was deep fresh snow because it...

A high engagement hub. Chain bounce engages the hub and the lower the engagement, the louder the hub is when it engages. This is with an o chain too.

my arms aren’t symmetrical in any way: length strength, mobility. Eyeballing bars is fine.

Seriously, this is the way.

Probably inspired by shark skin, which is highly hydrodynamic. Edit: more seriously, I wonder why manufacturers of aero bikes haven't experimented very much publically with anything but smooth shiny surfaces.

"Ingenious" is over-egging it more than a little bit but either way he says "...you're relying on your eyesight and everyone has a dominant eye..." and "...you're still relying on your eyes and one eye's going to take over from the other..." Who on earth does it that way without closing one eye?! Edit: Whoops, this wasn't intended to be as dismissive as it ended up being. It's certainly a neat way to minimise the faff if you need to be sure that it's just so and you're committed to using a string.

Ahh fair enough. I was under the impression that when I filled out the form with my weight/ riding style and then talked to Cornelius that it was to tune the damper. Either way, I was completely happy with how my fork showed up and that's great to know that they do offer fully custom tunes upon request. That brings me to one other point about Intend, their customer service is GREAT. I live halfway around the world from them and Cornelius always responded himself within a day to answer all my questions.

Long time lurker in the forums, thought I'd finally chime in since I own an Edge. Riding background: 43yo ex middle-to-back of the pack pro. I don't take nearly the chances I used to (career and kids to think about) but I still like to ride fast and push myself. I ran a Fox 38 Factory before I purchased the Intend. I liked the support the Fox offered, but could never quite dial it in to get the sensitivity I was looking for. With the 38, I always started experiencing serious arm pump, leading me to cut riding days short...

Sounds like a lot of work to replace DOT then try to get close to DOT instead of just using DOT...

bro, I'm no detective. But I'm pretty sure it's an EXT coil shock

It's an interesting topic you bring up @TEAMROBOT as with all things mtb it's hard to seperate marketing with actual tangible benefits. It's especially relevant to me, aka 'a bike nerd who is easily sucked in'. I've spend a fair bit of time on a charger 3 zeb and ohlins rxf38 for the conventional fork camp and now a bit over a year on an intend flash. I'd like to think the honeymoon period of a new shiny thing is over so I can give an honest take. I'm my experience they are superior to a rsu fork, it's pretty...

WAO released a limited run of stems and bars today, available on their website https://www.weareonecomposites.com/en-us/products/the-bar-stem https://www.weareonecomposites.com/en-us/products/the-stem I'm assuming these are the bars they showed off last year at Sea Otter and never appeared again until now. The stem looks like it's slightly different from the previous version, as well.