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This is a fact. A bolted joint is essentially springs in parallel so you sum the stiffness of the aluminum portion of the joint and the stiffness of the bolt portion of the joint. Like anything, it can be done well or poorly. Fun fact, I know someone who was going car brakes and thought it would be fun to swap the steel bolts for titanium bolts. The titanium bolts were not as stiff and they started having issues with leaking due to the caliper halves separating under high pressure.

The bolts are torqued and pre-tensioned so they are not a passive element and are acting on the stiffness of the caliper in a different way, all other things being equal this can result in a stiffer caliper than an equivalent 1 piece design. You can do a bad job of designing either type of course.

Who else thinks this needs to be a thing???!!! 😂 Apparently you can make them from discarded 34 stanchions. Get on it machinists, I need some!

By my calculations (could be wrong), 18 of the top 20 ranked teams earned their "spot" fair and square. It was only Cube and Yeti, ranked 20th and 21st who got wildcard spots instead of the slightly higher ranked teams of Rouge Racing and Goodman Santa Cruz. Tough times, but alot of stacked teams in there none the less

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You can definitely build very good wheels just by pitch - I'm basically tone deaf and can still achieve adequately even tension by plucking. The problem becomes after a month of riding - can you verify the pitch is still the same? And theres no way to quantify the absolute tension of each spoke in different wheels - a CX-ray in a carbon rim will sound very different to a thicker round spoke in an alloy rim. if a wheel comes back after a month with a broken spoke, you need some way of confirming that it was built to...

As someone who went from bleeding shocks by hand to using a vacuum pump about 10 years ago, a brake bleeding and pad bedding machine are 2 things I would immediately buy if I was running a general workshop. The time saved plus consistency (which saves even more time on parts coming back to be redone) is crucial for a sustainable workshop. I only occasionally do brakes but I'm still planning on building more tools for pad bedding when I get the time. Actually the same goes for wheel building - I used to do about as many wheels as...

thats the benefit of at least the additive A series bikes. they effectively make the bikes to order, no real hardship having 3 models - regular, HP, gearbox HP (once they have been designed and tested); making the lugs and gluing the tubes in is the same for each design. its not like a conventional brand's approach where a new bike means being stuck with half a warehouse of the old ones

Yeah not sure they got that right in the text. Clearly looks like its two separate halfs joined by the linkage and a "tube" kind of

This is crazy, but hear me out. What if the housing came out the bottom of the seat tube and ran along the outside of the downtube and then to the lever? I get what you're saying, and we're never going back to mass adoption of external routing. But it's insanity that electronic droppers are being offered as a solution to a problem the industry created and could so easily solve. It's like a horror movie when the person being held in a room realizes the door's been unlocked for quite some time and they could have just walked out.

Remote thumb activated paddle on his left control. Yellow lights on fork in the start gate. Blue lights on fork during run & at the finish line.

It sounds like you haven’t changed a lot of cable/housings on droppers. …Especially on an E bike. Some frames you damn near have to take the bike completely apart to change it. Having a wireless dropper that you just pop it in the hole like a normal post sounds heavenly in these cases.

The battery will likely add to the length of the post, and could be a show stopper with the current trend for the longest possible post. The wireless receiver circuitry also need to be outside metal, so placing it with the battery either at the seat clamp or the collar is natural. Relocating the battery and replacing it with a charging port is an alternative. On e-bikes a post should/could have connection to the main battery/controller for the ultimate in clean look and integration.

Almost certain that Troy probably had the left hand pod to override to either trail or lock on the suspension for the opening sprint and then turned it back to auto (which defaults to open) as soon as the fire road ended.

I love the hesitation as he morally questions his word choice.

But one of them doesn’t strip paint, ruin rubber durometer, or make certain plastics brittle.

I can hear it squelching already.

Looks like Oak Components lever blades

There is no way Jack chose to run Fox/TRP, has to be a forced move. Especially this late before the season. Will be interested to hear the reasoning.

That I am not sure of. But I know one of the reasons she went with YT was that she could keep running Rockshox stuff. I dont know exactly how it works, but it does seem like certain riders have an exclusivity contract with SRAM, Valli being one of them, and I thought Moir did as well (Schurter probably does also?). But apparently not. If they get paid to run it I have no idea, but chances are Valli probably gets something for it. Granted they do a lot of testing for/with SRAM and help them develop tunes and changes...