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Wasn't she in Transformers?

I'm contemplating locking this thread simply for this mic drop moment.

Oh my god no. I found my Hydras to be reasonable when we'll greased, but I've been happily on Onyx for two years now.

The tensioner is just behind the BB, tightening the chain behind the chainring on the cranks. The pulley on the rear just guides the chain and enables gear selection. The way they did it enables them to use standard cassettes which makes the system much easier to make for a small company. To make a gearbox you need a lot of money.

Remember Lal Supre Drive? It only ever reached the Nicolai Nucleon 16 Supre, but that partnership was stopped last year. The Lal Bikes guys are now moving in a new direction and developing a steel/carbon frame built around their drivetrain. They hope this proves their drivetrain to the world, and that more manufacturers will show interest. This is a screenshot from their latest Instagram reel (6th March).

Horst Link is the name for the whole package, not the pivot on the chainstay

If recognizable athletes are "testing" gear out in the open at popular spots, theyre doing it to get noticed. especially rolling in with an entourage......

Can we stop with the pipe dreaming, people would be more likely to glue their head to the table than properly use industrial adhesives in a frame jig. Most people struggle with IKEA,

It's because most of the dirt is flung from behind by the spinning front tire and the reverse arch blocks the seals from that.

Manitou owners don’t seem to have any issues with the front of their seals being exposed.

How so? Won't those allow dirt and mud that would normally get stuck on the back of the fork arch to be able to push through rather than building up as much on your seals?

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.

One piece is not necessarily stiffer. The steel bolts keeping the two halves together are stiffer than aluminum.

Bs. Shigura is best bang for the buck if you know how to set it up with plutonline and like the hard bite point.

Getting a bit off topic here...