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earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
6/2/2025 11:56am DUB only.
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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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earleb Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
5/21/2025 10:40am Sell it at peak COVID, buy it back for pennies on the dollar in peak tariffs. The only way to make money in the bike industry?
earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/21/2025 9:25am RS probably flows 5x more free product to bros than Intend sells in a year. Scale not even on the same planet.
earleb Added a reply to Trail Recommendations Interior BC/Montana/Idaho
5/20/2025 3:29pm Mt. Abriel in Nakusp. Rec Site camping right at the bottom of the trail network on Upper Arrow Lake. The rec site is run by the local trail organization so the camp fees go towards trail work. Full climbing trail to the top just finished last season. Full variety of trails.
earleb Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
5/19/2025 9:00pm She had a crash before the guy was on course. No rerun is the right call. Clean run before the guy and re run certainly needed. IMO.
BGoldstone Liked a reply to forum topic All Things Vital Downhill Fantasy
5/17/2025 9:28am
I think picking after qualies is great and I have always felt that way.🤥
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earleb Added a reply to 2025 World Cup Downhill / EDR - Bielsko-Biala, Poland
5/16/2025 10:35am Tensioner would accommodate any change in belt length. How long are these in the cold? Trip up the gondola and some time at the top before drop in. Once they start moving there is some friction that will warm it back up some. Not like these things are sitting in sub zero temps for 10 hours before drop in.
earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/16/2025 10:30am Just another crab link. Main pivot appears to be low af. Other teams going high AR, Orbea go really low AR.
earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/15/2025 2:51pm Forgot that Starling has basically done this already. https://bikerumor.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/freeflow-ff60-ebike-mo… https://www.starlingcycles.com/starlings-prototype-ebike-on-embn/ They used a FreeFlow drive (basically same as TQ) mounted to spin non drive side and ran a jackshaft across to dive side.
earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/15/2025 2:39pm The 2nd chain allows you to use larger size sprockets and get better efficiency. Traditional idler it's a packaging problem to get a large size idler in without going super high on the pivot location. By using the 2 chains you can run ratios that would allow a mid pivot and avoid a 11/12t sprocket anywhere in the system. With...
earleb Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/14/2025 4:43pm What if we venmo you $3.76 to keep them up? Bidding war over spy shots, community vs brands.