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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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9/18/2020
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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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CascadeComponents Added a reply to Kinematics

4/9/2025 10:52am
Resurrecting this to talk about the calculation of anti-squat. I've mentioned before that I don't like the method of tracing lines all over the place. This is because it loses track of what the actual interactions are. Below is an annotated image showing how I like to go about anti-squat. In this case, Fa is the acceleration force, Fc is...
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hamncheez2003 Liked a comment about Press Release Cascade Components Releases Linkage and High-Pivot Conversion for the Specialized Stumpjumper 15

4/9/2025 10:47am
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A higher pivot creates less squat, but any vehicle with pivot based suspension will squat under acceleration unless there is another force (like chain tension, compression damping) counteracting it UNLESS the pivot is unreasonably high.
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CascadeComponents Added a comment about press release Cascade Components Releases Linkage and High-Pivot Conversion for the Specialized Stumpjumper 15

4/8/2025 2:19pm
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When your center of mass accelerates there is a rearward weight transfer. The extreme example if you accelerate so fast that the front wheel lifts and all weight is on the rear wheel. If the IC is just above the wheel axle, it is correct to say that the net reaction force on the axle acts to extend the suspension, however the rearward weight transfer often acts to compress the suspension to a greater degree. The point where the reaction force on the axle acts to extend the suspension more than the weight transfer acts to compress it depends on...
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CascadeComponents Added a comment about press release Cascade Components Releases Linkage and High-Pivot Conversion for the Specialized Stumpjumper 15

4/8/2025 12:08pm
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You pretty much can't get a pivot high enough to have zero chain growth and reasonable anti-squat. The contact patch with the ground is not what directly creates anti-squat, though. The contact patch creates a moment about the axle. You could also view it as the chain creating a moment about the axle. Either or because the moment created by each is the same. Keep in mind that the bike and drive train are not static when pedaling. There is a net force experienced by the axle which is a sum of that created by chain tension and contact patch...
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CascadeComponents Added a comment about press release Cascade Components Releases Linkage and High-Pivot Conversion for the Specialized Stumpjumper 15

4/8/2025 11:54am
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It was released 9 months ago. Long enough for people to have had it for a good portion of a season and then an entire off season. You'd be surprised how many people change their mind in that time period. But really the market is the large amount of people who are big Stumpjumper fans and wouldn't be interested in buying another bike but are curious what a high pivot version of the exact same bike might feel like. There has never been one (at least not that has been visible) before.
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majorjake Liked a comment about Press Release Cascade Components Releases Linkage and High-Pivot Conversion for the Specialized Stumpjumper 15

4/8/2025 11:44am
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High pivot conversion, that's bold. Chapeau, Cascade Components.
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CascadeComponents Added a comment about press release Cascade Components Releases Linkage and High-Pivot Conversion for the Specialized Stumpjumper 15

4/8/2025 11:44am
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Answered this in the forum, but will drop the answer here for people that don't go to the forums. Have not test fit it on an aluminum frame yet. I don't see any reason it wouldn't work, but can't verify until it has been test fit.
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