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ebruner Added a reply to Coil Shock Shootout
9/11/2025 9:24am Transition Sentinal, Gen 7 trek fuel ex/mx and several more.
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ebruner Added a reply to E-bike talk: not tech rumor derailment
9/9/2025 10:10am 48-49ish pounds for a full power ebike with dh/dd tires is my sweet spot. If it's an SL ebike, then 43-45 would be the target. The problem for me is that I need to run the same tires (within 100 grams at least) on an SL ebike that I need to run on a full power ebike. That means that...
ebruner Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/4/2025 1:20pm I would just interject that potentially, not all HBO system designs are appropriate for all consumers. I find the HBO system in a smashpot effective, but pretty easy to setup wrong, impacting fork performance. Some rebound systems in forks I think are a bit more idiot proof, Manitou's HBO setup works well with a pretty trick rebound check system, so...
ebruner Added a reply to Modern Inverted Single Crown Forks
9/2/2025 12:29pm Regarding the usage of mid valve and avalanche... Avalanche is using an open bath damper and not a closed cartridge. That in and of itself, is not relevant to resulting damper performance... however how you get there is greatly impacted. I digress, when dealing with an open bath damper, you're banking on foaming and aeration of the damper fluid. This...
carlinojoevideo Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/2/2025 10:37am
Creative bb weight packaging on Jackson’s bike
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ebruner Added a reply to Antique Specialized Pitch Comp
8/29/2025 12:56pm The recommendation to save money and buy a stumpjumper is the absolute smartest thing you could do. I'm also a car guy tinkerer and I am too generally too stupid to take my own advice, or general advice like that. In this case however, ride it, fix what breaks, and buy something when the time is right is the answer.
DocLG88 Liked a forum topic Antique Specialized Pitch Comp
8/29/2025 10:51am
Hello all! New here and didn’t see much in the search results.. Bought a 2011 pitch comp full suspension bike today for 350 bucks. Am pretty mechanically inclined in cars tractors welders and the such but haven’t touched a bike much in 20+ years. Trying to see if there are any upgrades to make it semi relevant in 2025. Plan to ride it how it is. Maybe take it in and get it looked over once real good to make sure I’m not missing anything. Plan to ride it and upgrade it as I go. Anything I should be aware...
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ebruner Added a reply to Antique Specialized Pitch Comp
8/29/2025 10:55am I had one of these back in the day, I picked it up in my shop rat days. These were good times, where niche bike shops were still specialized dealers. When this released, this bike was sorta the sleeper as it had largely the same geo and similar kinematic to the top of the range enduro, at half the price...
ebruner Added a reply to Suspension Component Technology/Functionality Discussion
8/27/2025 12:55pm Validating you have the correct spring rate is important. Achieving that with a repeatable sag measurement, data acquisition, gopro recording however you want to do it is not important. What is important is that you have a repeatable process that isn't just based on 'feel'. the various methods for setting sag are a great starting point for consumers to take...
ebruner Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
8/27/2025 8:43am Yes, but it involves using a funnel on the lever side. I essentially bleed maven's like you'd bleed a car. I put the funnel in the lever side and fill it, I think put a syringe on the bleeding edge port 1/3 full. I put one hand on the bleeding edge port wing nut and another hand on the lever...
ebruner Added a reply to Modern Inverted Single Crown Forks
8/15/2025 1:21pm You guys should take the arguing to PMs so you can effectively yell into the same echo chamber. In here, we should discuss upside down suspension stuff. You know, "Stranger things, season 4, forks and stuff"
ebruner Added a reply to Tire chat (nerds only)
8/14/2025 9:04am For context, I can (and have on previous trips) tear through a maxx terra DHR 2 in 7 days in whistler with 3-4 days in the park and 3-4 days pedaling. That same DHR 2 would last me ~300-500 miles in socal with the low end being my enduro bike and the higher end of that being my trail bike...
ebruner Added a reply to Modern Inverted Single Crown Forks
8/13/2025 2:54pm it's all good, rhetorical questions asked into the ether are not off limits. Either the hive mind answers them with knowledge, they get ignored or someone has a bright idea or question that stems off it. 
Skunk Works Suspension Liked a reply to forum topic Modern Inverted Single Crown Forks
8/13/2025 1:04pm
I agree that DT Swiss hubs, due to how the end caps simply rest on the bearing face, are the worst in terms of helping torsional stiffness. Any hub where either the axle or the end cap goes all the way through the bearings will be better. I don't know if the I9 1-1 system (where the end cap goes through the bearing and into the axle) or the CK/OneUp/Hadley system (where the axle goes all the way through the bearings and the end caps then go over the axle), is better. I would assume the latter would be stiffer...
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Skunk Works Suspension Liked a reply to forum topic Modern Inverted Single Crown Forks
8/12/2025 11:49am
Interesting timing as I have been going through some hub/axle stuff as well. Fully Floating System What is found on inverted dirt bike forks; the fork axle can pass competently through the non-disk fork lug, and the hub end cap does not make contact with the ND fork lug. When the axle is tightened, the hub is pulled against the disk side fork lug, just like the Cannondale Lefty. Hub width has no effect on chassis alignment. Non-Floating System A system where the fork axle bottoms out on the outside of the fork lug and squeezes the hub between the...
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ebruner Added a reply to Modern Inverted Single Crown Forks
8/12/2025 11:49am That's a pretty damn informative post, thanks. I only know just enough to be dangerous here... so please bear with me. Question, I have to assume that there is an impact to stiffness based on how the front hub axle/end cap interface works? I've long thought that the end cap design of the dt350 is a standout weak point of...
Dave_Camp Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/11/2025 1:19pm
The non-vpp e bike was in the works years ago. They realized vpp with a shock tunnel, battery and motor basically impossible to get a good frame package (long seat post insertion, water bottle etc)
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ebruner Added a reply to Modern Inverted Single Crown Forks
8/11/2025 9:40am I had typed out a big post to this thread... and somehow hit refresh and lost it. So I'm going give the abbreviated version... I have been testing a 170mm push 9.1 (v1 with the air hbo) for the last week and have 4 rides on it. I have been testing it on my SC bullit so that I could...
ebruner Added a reply to What's the best 10-14 liter hydration pack for long days?
8/6/2025 4:42pm I am a vest guy myself and I have a 1.5L (2.5L gear) camelbak chase vest (the original one, which is slightly better then the current one). I recently got a camelbak chase 8 vest as a replacement which is a 2L bladder (6L gear). I use either depending on the length of ride, combined with a water bottle on...
AndehM Liked a reply to forum topic What's the best 10-14 liter hydration pack for long days?
8/6/2025 3:08pm
If you don't need 3L of water in it and can make do with ~1.5L of water, vest-style packs are awesome and don't move around at all. You may or may not have noticed that as EDR has gone back to long-ass days on the bike, a number of the racers are running these now. I like the Evoc ones (actually own 2 sizes for more/less storage capacity). I previously owned a CamelBak Chase and didn't like how only 1 side had zippered chest pockets and had issues with stuff falling out of the non-zip side.
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