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SOLUTION: handlebars that mount to the crowns! Just make sure you wear a full face

What a time to be alive. Unbound opulence. Kids, make sure you understand the gradient of the trail you are riding that day too so you can make sag adjustments based on likely weight distribution changes due to gradient variances. Spend 1-2 hours on bike setup/prep. Ride ~4-5 laps of 3-5 minutes each (total ride time 12-25 minutes). Spend 2 hours analyzing data, posting strava, posting grams, posting trailforks, posting youtubes, arguing with netbangers. Sit back, soak in all the WINNING. This is TRULY what peak cycling enjoyment looks like.

@CascadeComponents thanks for all of the help/feedback on setup changes and reality checks for me on my nomad. I tossed the cascade link on, put the vorsprung tractiv tuned superdeluxe on and threw the smashpot in my fox 38 and the bike is unbelievable right now. I definitely feel like the added bit of progression to the suspension made it easier for me to hit the feeling I wanted in the suspension across the board. Spring rate/support, rebound speed, compression settings, etc. Also, the additional chainstay length is so, so choice and really just tied the whole room together.

It’s not important how accurate your sag measurement is, what is important is that you measure it the same way consistently. Most air gauges and weight scales are not all exactly accurate or calibrated but who cares!? As long as you are measuring the same way consistently then you can find the sag that works for you, even if it’s 31,5% The fact is that sag as a measurement is a subjective number because we all have different tastes in how our suspension should ride and feel, it isn’t about hitting some exact specifically accurate measurement of sag that is...

Unless you have a bike with a very specific leverage curve designed around a specific sag point (old Santa Cruz?) sag seems almost completely irrelevant. Set up your suspension to your preferences for how it behaves dynamically on the trail not a single static value.

Id have no idea what sag im running. other than a starting point, thats all its good for - in the rear i'd guess closer to 20% than 30%(based on shock stroke) my bikes ride sick since I stopped caring about "but im about 30/20% sag"

The bikes that have a linear damper and progressive spring on separate parts of the linkage just mimic the behavior of a rampy air spring on a linear bike. Which everyone decided was terrible years ago. I don't see the advantage of mimicking that behavior with a coil. Linear bikes with a rampy air spring feel inconsistent as all hell with their damping IMO. I wish I could have a progressive linkage for my fork damper too.