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bermed Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/30/2024 11:15am There's chatter of updates to the Rocky Mountain Element for 2025. Anyone heard anything more concrete?
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Finkill Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/29/2024 8:27pm
Yeah, looks dry in the images...
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brash Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/26/2024 6:56am
I cant go a week without seeing a Merida E160 battery cover on the trails, only thing I see more of is those SRAM DUB BB caps.
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seanfisseli Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/23/2024 8:10am
I watch guys on e-bikes who are more nimble than I am on an XC bike. We can adapt to the extra weight. It’s really a question of: are you into the long quiet meditative climbs? I like them and I don’t need the ratio of time spent up:time spent down to change yet
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2supple Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/17/2024 1:23pm
Richie would get top 5 on a 2015 Stumpjumper
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bermed Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/17/2024 1:23pm Podiums only exist for the purpose of selling bikes. Yeti care about sales primarily, and podiums they achieve are a means to that goal. Maybe they are moving away from Switch Infinity to a cheaper layout where the patent has expired.
bermed Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/16/2024 2:37pm I bet Yeti has a ton of cash on hand compared to other bike companies. They introduced the switch infinity system and then basically have just been selling the same bikes, no constant updates for years. Smart move on their part. No major geometry tweaks, no feature introductions (not even in-frame storage) for the SB160. I would bet their business...
kokokorokokoko Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/14/2024 8:44am
Any more rumors on the new Santa Cruz bikes? Megatower/Nomad and Hightower/Bronson being turned into two platforms instead of four with flipchips for the rear wheel size?
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SteveClimber Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/14/2024 8:44am
The constant whinging that tech rumours is getting derailed is kind of annoying and derailing in itself. In my opinion its OK to discuss the tech rumour or current happenings for at least a page or two, and then they generally dissipate or move to other threads. If a legitimate large rumour or release happens it naturally takes over the thread anyway, they're discussing damping and leverage because there isn't a lot happening right now. Plus, Primoz, Teamrobot and Cascade make up some of the best and most knowledge members and are creating a valid discussion. For better or worse...
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bermed Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/13/2024 10:39am Agreed. The thing I am confused about is, it seems like there is an ideal overall progression rate sweet spot (taking into account the progression of the linkage plus the progression of the shock). Some designs use a more linear linkage with an air shock (which adds progression above the linkage's rate). Others use a more progressive linkage paired with...
Suns_PSD Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/13/2024 10:16am
Dang, Paul and Rulezman REALLY did it wrong. It's pretty simple, they didn't correctly correlate spring rate to the new leverage ratio. They used more travel because the spring rate was too soft, then they got into the progressive end stroke. Forks are not linear. Even a coil fork has an air space that gets compressed and ramps up in a linear manner, but most forks are air, and a few are a hybrid of coil & air.
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bermed Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/13/2024 10:16am Right, but if you control for one variable (force required to bottom out fully), then a progressive linkage will use more travel on smaller-than-full-bottom-out impacts vs a more linear design. I think progressive linkage designs are great for janky terrain (higher typical shaft speed), whereas more linear designs are better suited to riding in areas like bike parks or smoother...
bermed Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/13/2024 10:12am Air sprung. forks aren't linear. They are progressive. Even when all the volume spacers are removed, air is inherently progressive. Maybe the rate of progression is less than rear suspension, but it absolutely increases over the length of the stroke. That's why people sometimes get coil forks - they want something truly linear. The differences you are talking about here...
bermed Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/12/2024 9:12pm I don't find it perplexing at all that a more progressive design uses more travel for the same impact. The point of having progression is that it's softer at the beginning to absorb repeated small and medium impacts, but still retains bottom-out resistance. "Softer" means it uses more suspension travel for the same impact compared to a more linear design...
bermed Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/1/2024 12:31pm I guess I'm just ignorant regarding the R&D required. Would be interested in learning more. I'm still boggled because $650 is the same that an entire decent suspension fork costs though.
bermed Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/1/2024 11:27am So the Padmelon steering dampers are about $650 in total? That’s nuts, I was assuming it’d be a $50 part.
bermed Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/1/2024 8:25am Anyone have news of when the 13-speed GRX might drop?
TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/24/2024 9:54am
How much do you know about capitalism?
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bermed Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/22/2024 6:15pm I think it has less to do with savviness and more with getting inside info from SRAM and Shimano on what they have coming down the pipeline in the next 5-10 years. Component manufacturers including drivetrain and suspension obviously go to all the major bike companies and give them a roadmap that shows where they are heading and what's being...
Jotegr Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/22/2024 6:10pm
Drop in the bucket. Trek commissioned did a study a number of years ago and it found for high end (4000 USD and above) mountain bikes, SC blew everybody out of the water in terms of sales - including Trek and Specialized. That study kind of made its way around the inside of the industry and speculatively is why a number of companies shifted to copy SC in a number of ways. Anyway, the point is SC, being the king of high end MTB sales, sells so many bikes to absolute schmuck riders who'd struggle ride out of wet paper...
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