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So do other hubs. That's why this one never caught on, especially with this proprietary disc. This answers no problem but creates one. I love this comment from the red site over D'Arcy O'Connor's Multi-Link Doc Tec Prototype : " C reeping featurism. Give engineers free rein and they’ll obsess about optimizing some parameter and make the product overly complex/expensive/etc even when nobody can tell the difference in said parameter because it’s being used by an actual human. "

Please Cliffy, children can access this website.

New Gambler. Screenshot from Brendog's Vlog.

I particularly enjoyed the underwhelming and cheap sounding "tink" sound of the bike/scooter bottoming out.

Every second that passes it gets a little funnier, I was dead by the end.

Not quite to the cinematography level of YT/Christopher Walken, but it’s damn close.

I'll send them a letter back telling them I look forward to cooperating with them when I intend to take the bike to market, which is never. If they want to get between me and my hobby I'm more than happy just ignoring them 😂

Yea, there's a hole for one to mount to, but I never got round to actually modelling the pulley wheel. I was just gonna buy a jank components x-sync chainring thingy for it, cause my brother can get me them cheap. I've just designed a simpler version of the concept too, designed to be made from 3dp steel as it's more accessible to me than machined alloy. It's got a yoke to reduce the eye to eye, it either does 225x75 203mm Mx or 205x65 180mm 29"/Mx. I wanted to do the 6-bar, but the machining on the links would...

I spent a few hundred hours riding the VST prototypes. Still, to this day, I have yet to ride a bike that goes so damn fast in a straight line. There was so much drama in that era of Sinister, it’s too bad development stopped on that project, two or three more prototypes and I think we would have ended up with a production-ready bike.

The barriers blew over at the finish line and they stopped the race to address the safety issue during qualifying. Riders on course got a re run.

I think that was on qually day?

Its a good looking bike. And under Colognes it sure looks fast, given that hes coming from the Commencal, which everyone seems to think is the fastest bike on the circuit right now. It also appears to the the same "2008 demo" suspension design as the "new" Nukeproof haha.

People seem to think bike companies have way more time and money on their hands than they actually do......pulling 20 units together AT ALL, let alone people with enough spare time to strip them down and rebuild perfectly is close to impossible. They will for sure be getting some kind of once over but that's going to be pretty standard anyway for a new production run....the QC from those top brands are already really really good in my opinion and the amount of "problems" certain people try to make you think exist just aren't anywhere near that bad in reality....

Eh, I have a few thoughts to add for the hell of it. Some may remember, but I have had the privilege of playing "bike review guy" for Vital in the 2010s and also got to do similar work in the ski and motorski industry. I've also had a behind the scenes look into the industry at various points over the last ~20 years and can say I've never seen anything to suggest media product is somehow different than the product the public buys. That said, most of these "big" launches include a mechanic (or two) as you implied. Hence...

The modified one is shown in Blue

I dug back into the vital archives just to see how much we've kicked around these ideas (posted a handful of links below). The theme of this conversation dates back to 2017, when all the same talking points were echoed. From then to now the broad access problems e-bikes supposedly posed did not materialize. This isn't to say a few trails haven't been lost, but we've gained many more trails than we've lost in this period of time (for mtb and for e-mtb). To add, the areas we did lose trail are areas that have always been under fire due...

Agreed on all counts. If it's repeatable, it's as valid as it can be, but it's not a very meaningful target in itself, it's a byproduct of having the necessary spring rate for the loads you put on the bike and the ride quality you're looking for. Worrying about the precision of the sag measurement like that is utterly pointless if you're ignoring the factors that actually matter when selecting spring rates. On that note, we have a few different ways that we calculate spring rates for the Telum on any given frame (tuninghub.vorsprungsuspension.com) - if you know what you...

I'd just add that VDS track gets pretty bad gopro effect... And keep the hype train rolling, this year we still get Champery worlds!

Hard to take a guy serious that rides Kendas.

I always new Dave was an avid MBAction reader - https://mbaction.com/garage-files-how-to-set-suspension-sag-using-motoo… I like how he assumes none of us ever heard of that tool or read the Motorcycle Suspension Bible....but apparently we are all morons? I don't normally get to caught up in everyones theories since there are many ways to do it, and each is fine as long as its vaguely repeatable, but this is claiming an awful lot of precision for measuring the sag without any way of checking the weight distribution which can introduce just as much error!