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teamrobot set a record for forum thumbs up, so here's a preview of what's to come (unlisted, only for the special people in this forum topic) regarding taking out pawls and testing ochain.

Would y'all want to see a 15-minute VitalMTB video with back-to-back testing on a section of brutal rocky chunder with different pedal kickback theories to see if the Ochain really works as advertised?

DAMPING

At first glance it looks like pretty much all impacts would go through the IFP system until the IFP has bottomed out inside it's bore and then things would flow 100% through the shim stack. As long as the IFP can reset from its bottomed out position you'd be able to have access to that super light damping at any point unlike with a bypass. Whether that's for better or worse deep in travel, I'm not sure. In the automotive world Bilsteins are usually fantastic bang for your buck. I'd hope that would transfer over as well.

Could be an interesting one!

Updated Geometron

Chris Canfield's Vampire Bikes slightly more uncovered... Stolen from MTBR:

Point deducted for dampening

They wanted to, but from what I've heard a large part of R&D resources went into the development of the bike diaper...

Not really a tech rumour, but quite interesting nonetheless

New session in the works. Screen grabs from team video. Looks like some kind of stiffness around seat tube/BB area. Maybe frame enclosure around shock for lateral stiffness? Chainstay, seatstay look the same.

No disrespect, but can you please stop posting stuff like this.

Ohlins announced coil conversions for both the RXF38 and DH38, nothing for the RXF36 though

Moar shimz

Ratboy on the Cannondale DH proto frame. Wonder if they are reviving the concept, or he was just looking for a DH bike and they gave him the old frame that was kicking around.

john hall racing a pinion-equipped M1 at monster pro DH. pic attached. video on our insta stories. we'll have more pics and interview later.