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earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/17/2025 7:27pm Rocky just needs to step in and open the mold. Hahah 32's are going to be a big hit here on the Shore.
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earleb Added a reply to Enduro vs. Trail Bike - Pedaling Efficiency Measured
6/13/2025 3:28pm Without VO2 and measuring the metabolic work any comparison is just bro science vibes.
earleb Added a comment about bike check NAF BrokeR, home made high pivot trail bike
6/12/2025 12:51pm
Love how you have done a flex, split piv, and bearing fuax bar versions of the same basic layout. Great work regardless of what the internet tolls say.
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earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/11/2025 11:00am Wild guess here that nobody has made yet....but maybe it's a TMD?
earleb Added a reply to Top Choice World Cup Tracks?
6/9/2025 6:15pm I forgot about Whiteface this year. Hopefully it's raw AF and just a big wide channel in the forest for riders to develop lines.
earleb Added a reply to Top Choice World Cup Tracks?
6/9/2025 1:40pm I want to see a fully 100% fresh track. Like it's just a wide tape swath that swoops down the mountain, a couple of pre-built catch berms and a few airs. Full woods sections that have never seen a tire before practice starts, the sticks have been removed but it's all natural untouched ground. Maybe do an extra day of...
earleb Added a reply to All Things Vital Downhill Fantasy
6/7/2025 12:07pm Pretty stoked on how my team did. 64th overall in this round. I was on the fence between Jackson and Finn and picked Finn, should have picked Jacko.
earleb Added a reply to 2025 World Cup Downhill / EDR - Leogang, Austria
6/6/2025 8:05am Flip side is that Qualifiers rounds are getting more coverage than in the past. Lots more talk about Q1 and Q2. The competition level has gone up. From a pure racing perspective this is a much better system. Rides must perform in this new system. Maybe some of the riders consistently not making the cut just aren't worth the money.
earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/4/2025 11:29am Did anyone have Bilstein entering mtb suspension on their Bingo card?
earleb Added a reply to 2025 World Cup Downhill / EDR - Loudenvielle, France
6/4/2025 8:04am Five rider podium should have never happened in the first place.
earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/2/2025 11:56am DUB only.
earleb Added a reply to Silent Bikes - What tricks do you have to keep your bike quiet through the season?
5/29/2025 7:58am Another positive vote for STFU. I 3d printed my own from TPU and it silences the chain. I run a single one just a bit forward of center of the chainstay.
earleb Added a reply to E-bike talk: not tech rumor derailment
5/27/2025 12:06pm Is the Unno Mith not the current weight to power winner? Proper dh spec and 21.2 kg.
earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/27/2025 11:46am So they made it rely more on the air spring and less on the damper? Less of what Ohlins has been and more like RS/Fox? Thankfully nothing a tune won't fix. I love my RFX36 and TTX22M.2 coil.
earleb Added a reply to Modern Inverted Single Crown Forks
5/26/2025 11:03am You mean Darren from Push not Fox. I think Darren has shared that it would have been cheaper to have magnesium lowers made in Taiwan than go the inverted route.
earleb Added a reply to Fork chassis, axles, friction: burnishing, chassis alignment, etc...
5/24/2025 11:43am Hub width? Floating axle solves that. Aside from Ohlins is Fox still using it? Anyone else?
earleb Added a reply to Clipless Pedals Thread
5/23/2025 12:33pm Full side to side movement without resistance.
earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/22/2025 2:32pm Gotta save something for the 2026-27 frame update. They could do new molds with thinner diameter seatstays or chainstays. Offer the front end in two different layups in all sizes. A DH priority / heavy rider layup. Enduro priority / lighter rider layup. Just think of all the combinations you could do. Lighter rider layup front end / heavy rider...
earleb Added a comment about bike check Zoceli Narum
5/22/2025 10:05am
Beautiful bike.
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Skunk Works Suspension Liked a reply to forum topic Fork chassis, axles, friction: burnishing, chassis alignment, etc...
5/22/2025 9:10am
After 2 years in the trenches dealing with fork friction issues, this is what I have found: In hundreds of forks taken apart and checked for chassis alignment/bushing fit, tight bushings account for maybe 5% of the friction problems. It is almost always the chassis/CSU alignment causing the issue. In rare cases burnishing (or opening up the bushings) is the only way to get any improvement, even though the individual fit on each side is good. But in general it is the last resort (unless when testing each leg individually you find a tight fit). If the lowers are fully...
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