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earleb Added a reply to Frame Design
11/14/2023 12:40pm Norco have been moving the main pivot to vary the CS length for many years now. Owen of Forbidden was a designer at Norco when they started doing it.
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earleb Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
11/4/2023 10:01am Yeti / SRAM - Gwin, Richie and Vali
earleb Added a reply to Frame Design
11/2/2023 5:14pm Pole dropped a bunch of the test numbers in this article on Pinkbike back in 2021. https://www.pinkbike.com/news/pole-voima-emtb-passes-efbe-tri-test.html
Great looking bike. Really like the coaxial rear brake mount.
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earleb Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
10/27/2023 2:32pm https://www.instagram.com/p/Cy6BCCuM5kY/ Shots fired. "It’s funny times out there at the moment, but contrary to the weapons on @vitalmtb we’ll see you in 2024! 😂 👀"
earleb Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
10/26/2023 3:43pm SRAM's "mtb brand team" is based out of a little office here in North Vancouver. Gwin to SRAM / Rock Shox for 2024.
earleb Added a reply to Compliant mechanisms in suspension frame design?
10/26/2023 3:23pm I've been down a whole bunch of rabbit holes looking at ways to apply compliant mechanisms to a suspension layout. Countless hours in linkage, numerous scientific papers read, and much daydreaming. Some applications. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cq2pj7SJ-Xb/ Two pivots replaced with the flex of a tube. https://www.instagram.com/p/CtPAC95p1qy/?g=5&img_index=1 3d printed flex dropouts https://www.instagram.com/p/CeT-oDVBcpN/?img_index=1 Possible application would be to replace the slider mech on Arc8...
earleb Added a reply to Frame Design
10/26/2023 10:03am No current plans to build for sale. MK5 is in the works. Take Mk3 and Mk4 and smash them together you get Mk5, I need to finalize some flat sheet metal design for the shock tunnel and get that off to Send Cut Send. When talking frame design for me the question is what are the design goals? I started...
earleb Added a reply to Frame Design
10/25/2023 1:51pm It's the pull link under the bb they are trying to patent, or rather the kinematics and adjustability they can get from it.
earleb Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
10/25/2023 9:44am Well we know where the trolls that get banned from other forums end up.
earleb Added a reply to Frame Design
10/25/2023 8:16am You could also be like Specialized and copy someone else's homework and the patent it as your own.
earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/24/2023 9:14am Why do you assume he can only have poppet valves in there?
earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/22/2023 11:42am It full freecoasts. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cqn8SRkviZx/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== https://www.instagram.com/reel/CvX2SK_pnRF/?igshid=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng== He has a pawl version and a DT Swiss style. He could do some better clips showing it.
earleb Added a reply to Frame Design
10/22/2023 10:01am How would you go about this when you have no fixed points on a clean sheet build? The number of variables seems like it would take much longer thorough out an idea. With Linkage you can quickly moch something up and see what your general kinematics would look like and decide if it's worth more time.
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10/22/2023 9:56am Tairin a little hub upstart here in Vancouver is making a silent clutch hub that disengages the pawls on coasting. The freehub can spin backwards thus taking up the pedal kickback slack. https://www.tairinwheels.ca/product-page/silent-shogun-rear-hub It has 5.5 degrees of float before engagement so less slop than OChain and without the sponge feel of an Onyx. Not many of them in the...
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10/21/2023 10:24am Fusion has free options for students and personal non commercial use.
earleb Added a reply to Frame Design
10/20/2023 11:20am All fabrication done by myself in the garage. I have small benchtop mill, benchtop lathe, and an oxy-propane brazing set up. Jig is also garage made out of cold rolled steel a design copied from a number of Colorado builders that use a similar design. The first single pivot frame was build with hand files, hacksaw and a vise. No...
earleb Added a reply to Frame Design
10/20/2023 9:49am First rule of frame design, ignore marketing crap. Compare a whole bunch of different designs in Linkage and realize that everyone is slowly converging on the same thing. The window of preferred anti-squat and leverage ratios is narrowing in on roughly 100% anti-squat at sag and a LR of 20-25% linear progression starting around 2.8 to 3.0. Anti-rise seems to...
earleb Added a comment about press release Lapierre Introduces the GLP III
10/11/2023 11:17am
Nope doesn't look like a regular bike. I kinda like it. I do like the philosophy behind why it looks like it looks. Centralize the mass to keep weight off the front end placing handing characteristic above looks.
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earleb Added a reply to All Things MONT-SAINTE-ANNE World Cup Downhill
10/6/2023 12:01pm Loic didn't hold back. Made his intentions clear.