All

Spotted over on Pinkbike -- Ronan Dunne running his tuned mass damper in a novel location. (More like a tuned ass damper, am I right? Sorry, I'll see myself out.)

So much… it’s just too… ÜBER cringe. It must kind of fun to try and write the cringiest nonsense-copy though: “Thank God some kids stayed in science club, because while you were cutting school, they were learning how to manipulate the laws of physics. Some of those kids grew up to be members of Specialized Science Club and helped make the Vado SL 2 an unprecedented combination of power, speed, and light weight.” Gross. Now I want a Rivendell.

more like lewis doing 5dev things

The value gap was too narrow between Deore and XT. Deore did everything SLX did at a lower cost, and XT spec kept getting pushed down because the name (and product of course) holds a ton of value for customers.

I can't help but wonder if getting ride of SLX was based on SKU reduction or if the production costs were too close to XT to justify having both....

It's sad that as soon as SRAM purchased shockwiz they consigned it to abandonware. The tech was so cool and it certainly succeeded as a proof of concept, it's a shame the sole major update the platform ever got made it significantly worse for nerd users, which, let's be honest - that's who was actually going to buy the thing other than shops as a fun add-on to bike setup and demo programs. My one sentence review of the Shockwiz is "If the sticker on the back of your fork can get you 80% of the way to properly tuned...

I'll be straight with you, a lot of the explanations don't make any sense. They kind of give me turbo encabulator vibes. It's impossible to have chain growth and no pedal kickback. The chain tension is always resolved by your feet. No way around that. Whether or not your cranks get rotated by that chain tension or the rear wheel gets rotated forwards depends on whether or not your feet can react that chain tension entirely.

That paint is sick but the black bit of the front triangle looks like a repair job where they couldn't be arsed matching the paint.

Last page or two is boooring 😏 Wasn't there a dedicated topic for chainstay lengths etc? Here you go: https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/modern-geo-talk-chainstays-stack-re…

English isn't a real language, it's 3 languages in a trench coat pretending to be a language.

This is how essentially all normal suspension bikes behave. The only bikes with continuously extending chainstays are high pivots, and even then they have to be pretty up there for that to be the case. Switch infinity has similar characteristics to VPP and DW-link.

The best explanation of SI I've heard (or visualised) is that it's a "DW"/VPP/Dual link design, where the bottom link is infinitely long (since it can't rotate at all). Which since it can't rotate, forces that oscillation in movement through the travel of the sliding part.

That's exactly how sliders are evaluated kinematically, draw a perpendicular (infinitely long) line through the pivot on the slider carrier and see where it intersect with the line on the other link. That's how you get the IC. It's literally like having an infinitely long link.