CascadeComponents
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https://cascadecomponents.bike/
We have developed a range of linkages that cater to aggressive riding in rough terrain by delivering more traction and more bottom out resistance. If you ride for the downs, look no further!

All linkages are fully CNC'd right here in Seattle, Washington USA.

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Everett, WA, USA

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9/18/2020
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

5/29/2025 10:14am
There currently aren't really rear shocks with position sensitive damping in the world of bikes, so shaft speed is the only factor in damping force shock tune aside. There are a couple of things to look at to get a feel for rebound speed. One is the wheel force plot. That factors in spring force which is important because higher...
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

5/27/2025 12:56pm
One thing to keep in mind is that, because both rebound and compression damping exert a force proportional to the shaft speed of the shock/fork, all changing these will do is alter the amount of time that it takes for the fork to dive and/or the shock to extend under breaking. During sustained braking, all you can do to prevent...
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

5/21/2025 1:14pm
In regards to spring rate, it depends on whether you run it in the short travel or long travel setting. Short travel would be 475 and long travel would be 525. Personally I'd split the difference and go with a 500. When you said linkage side bearings I assumed you were talking about bearings in the link as opposed to...
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment

5/20/2025 8:03pm
I’ll be honest, that big of a change in master cylinder diameter doesn’t sound wonderful. Comparing the distance you’d have to move the master cylinder to move the pads the same amount, it’s a 56% increase. That’s a lot of lever throw… one conclusion I’ve come to is that massive power and good lever feel aren’t really attainable without decreased...
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

5/13/2025 10:46pm
Likely the shock extender. Any time I unbolt the shock from a shock extender, when I set the bike back up I always compress it a couple of times with the bolt torqued only half way. There is always clearance between the bolt and bushing. If the shock is slightly to the side due to that clearance, that misalignment will...
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

5/13/2025 10:18pm
No. What bike? There isn’t really anything special about a shock like the X2 that would make it creak with some linkages and not with others.
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

5/13/2025 8:24pm
How much preload you running? With 1-2 turns, should be pretty easy to keep it from topping out harshly. DHX2s are much more reliable these days than they once were. The previous version of it was quick to leak though.
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

5/13/2025 6:23pm
As long as it has oil, yes. I actually set my LSR on that shock by making it as fast as possible before top out becomes noticeable. And that has worked perfectly well on a bike with an initial leverage ratio of 3.7.
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

5/13/2025 1:50pm
Rising rates don't really contribute to top out the way people allude to. You can easily get a bike that's upwards of 40% progression to not top out harshly while still having a completely reasonable rebound tune. The weight of the wheel is extremely small compared to spring force. The shock can easily slow the wheel into the low speed...
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

5/13/2025 9:34am
1. My opinion on the lower link bearings is that the fact that they are shielded and not sealed makes them wear faster. While it gives you the ability to purge with grease, you can't do that while you're riding and it also overfills the bearings with grease. So I think worst case you'd see the same wear as current...
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

5/7/2025 9:41am
This is my two cents on anti-rise... I prefer bikes with anti-rise that starts slightly high and then tapers off through travel. I get along really well with VPP bikes because they do this. My experience with low anti-rise is that it exacerbates the geo changes due to forward weight transfer and causes the suspension to be less active in...
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iceman2058 Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

5/7/2025 9:16am
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It's blatantly obvious that Lewis just straight up copies prestigious products with the objective of selling them to people who love the looks/bling factor of the absolute high-end stuff but don't want to pay for it. The structural integrity of the design has nothing to do with it.
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kane Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

5/6/2025 9:20am
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What's amazing with this design is that Canyon have decided a single pivot is good enough to control the axle path, braking behaviour and pedalling behaviour but the leaverage rate requires a 6 bar linkage and all the additional complexity and hardware associated with that.
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

4/23/2025 7:08am
If you do what you’ve done with sag, it will ride exactly the same as it would with the 60 mm stroke at 30% sag up until the bottom out point and then it just happens to have 5 mm more stroke on tap. This is why I don’t understand when bikes are sold with a shorter stroke than what...
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

4/23/2025 7:01am
Not really sure what you’re talking about. It’s a relative position problem. The whole rear end moves including the ground plane. Or the ground plane doesn’t move and everything else does. There’s no adjusting anything as the bike moves, though. The equations don’t leave anything behind.
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

4/22/2025 12:49pm
Just moving the rear wheel. Or just moving the ground relative to the sprung mass. Depends on how you like to think about it. Getting into fork travel vs rear wheel travel would be very marginal difference at the expense of a lot more complexity in a calculation that already makes a lot of assumptions. At the end of the...
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metadave Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

4/20/2025 4:19pm
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Some of you never rode when we had no clutches so the loose, flopping chain smashed against every part of your aluminum bike and the fork knocked in the 1 1/8th head tubes and then echoed through your monocoque frame and it shows. I can barely hear my current bike compared to the 3rd grade marching bands on wheels we used to ride pre-2012. I didn't even know you could hear what your tires were doing for the first 10 years I rode.
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

4/11/2025 7:56pm
There is a component of torsion and a component of bending. For the wheel be misaligned with the bars/stem, one fork leg has to be angled forward/backward (however you chose to view it) relative to the other. An easy way to visualize this is hold a bar straight out in front of you firmly holding one end with each hand...
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CascadeComponents Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation

4/11/2025 10:12am
In theory, if your pinch bolts don't ever slip then the torsional rigidity added by the axle would be a function of OD and ID. All the hex buys you is the assurance that it can never slip.
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