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Eoin Added a reply to do you workout?
1/27/2025 2:02am Thought about it, but got an ebike instead
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Eoin Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
1/22/2025 4:19am Team rumours rule 16.2E: An athlete using a bike during an offseason training ride shall not be strong indicator of sponsorship changes. If the bike is not from the category of the athlete's chosen discipline or if the athlete is travelling, it will not constitute a rumour. Team rumours rule 24.6B: The liking and following between brands on social media...
TheSuspensionLabNZ Liked a reply to forum topic Bypass tubes on mountain bike shocks or forks? (Trophy truck tech)
1/21/2025 11:22am
Energy is proportional to half the mass time velocity squared so adding weight has less effect on the impact forces than physically travelling faster. So if the extra weight enables you to go faster then its more than worth it. Obviously there is a trade off in terms of acceleration and cornering, especially in a powered vehicle but thats separate to impact strength. The bump stop thing is pretty cool - you can definitely tune it much better when you aren't constrained by packaging it with the damper. Could be cool for frame designers to build this in which would...
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Eoin Added a reply to Bypass tubes on mountain bike shocks or forks? (Trophy truck tech)
1/21/2025 2:17am Obviously, I know what a hydraulic inerter is... But maybe you could explain it to sspomer here and I'll review? On the more serious note, is the RS touchdown tech purely for feel? I can't imagine unweighted bike damping bypass plays much of a role in suspension performance.
Eoin Added a reply to Bypass tubes on mountain bike shocks or forks? (Trophy truck tech)
1/21/2025 2:14am So trophy trucks are the ebikes of motorsports, got it
sspomer Liked a forum topic Bypass tubes on mountain bike shocks or forks? (Trophy truck tech)
1/20/2025 9:02am
Saw this cool video dissecting a trophy truck. when shocks are is discussed (14:37 in the video), they show dampers with bypass tubes in the shock body which provide increased shock tuning. has anything like this ever been used in MTB? i'd imagine the stroke of a mountain bike shock is way too short for this to be applicable, not to mention the springs and shock body being completely separate on a trophy truck compared to our one-piece units. could the idea apply to a fork since its travel is longer? i also figure if the system isn't used on...
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Eoin Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
1/17/2025 8:43am Nice, I was definitely interested as I find Oneup to have great design and engineering. But focusing so much on the "thinnest" aspect when my XTs are about 3mm thicker and thus have 1.5mm less clearance is a bit deflating to their argument.
Eoin Added a reply to The Mountain Bike Crank Length Discussion
1/17/2025 12:54am I only ride E-bikes at max assist: bent 3 sets of 155mm cranks on my Giant Reign e with its way too low 330mm BB. (Descending, not due to poorly timed pedalling, although it messes up technical climbing also) Currently on 140mm chineseum €40 cranks. I don't really find much negatives with short cranks, I would probably ride 155mm if...
Eoin Added a reply to The great Headset Debate
1/14/2025 4:37am Ever so slight off-topic: My new bike came with adjustable head angle via headset cup, sounded great! But it also comes with headset routing, luckily not the worst implementation and can mostly be ignored. Except of course if you would like to rotate those fancy headset cups, suddenly I need to take out all my cables and disconnect my brake...
Blake_Motley Liked a comment about Feature What's In / What's Out - Mountain Biking in 2025
1/1/2025 7:14pm
In: higher bottom brackets and higher stack. My wheelbase is 1300mm I don’t need a 340mm BB anymore
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RiderMikeCheck1 Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
12/20/2024 10:01am
It's safe to say Canyon pays Van der Poel 3-4x what they pay for entire enduro budget (riders, mechanics, travel, gear, marketing). But recalls can destroy companies if they don't have proper insurance/cash reserves.
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smelly Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
12/20/2024 7:42am
I doubt this will make a dent in Canyon. Aren’t they mostly a road/gravel/commuter brand? Reckon Van der Poel gets paid more than all of what Canyon spends on enduro racing. And the sponsor oodles of cross/road teams.
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Eoin Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
12/19/2024 2:13pm Anyone know how much of a cash safety net Canyon are sitting on, and what is their distribution of sales in terms of road vs mtb? Because they must be getting absolutely hammered on the ebike battery recall. They havn't been selling any full power ebikes for weeks, they are offering hundreds of euros in compensation to spectral:on and torque:on...
Eoin Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
12/19/2024 8:56am Just from a marketing point of view, GT have not been a cool brand for the past 20 years, their full sus bikes consistently had weird suspension layouts that never reviewed well, then they went a more traditional layout but some of ugliest frames ever. I can only think of one brief time GT bikes were cool, when the Atherton's...
Eoin Added a reply to What Are Some Things You'd Like To Tell Your Beginner MTB Rider Self?
12/17/2024 1:38pm 1) If you buy cheap, you buy twice. 2) Oracle mode: 90% of your big crashes will be due to a bike with too low a BB. Don't buy bikes with low BBs.
Eoin Added a comment about feature Shorter Cranks - Are They for You?
12/16/2024 5:36am
The BB on my ebike is way too low so I have been having major issues with crack/pedal strikes, bent 3 155mm cranks in a year. Now on some cheap Chinese 140mm cranks and very surprised at how "ok" they feel.
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Eoin Added a comment about feature Gravity Tire Shootout - Vital Test Sessions
12/3/2024 6:18am
Interesting how poorly the Schwalbe fared. I have the Radial Albert and for sure I would not put it out front, but it seems pretty good to me and very impressed by the hard wearing nature of it. It takes a long time to figure out the pressures, you need easily 5psi more than a non radial tyre.
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veefour Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/30/2024 3:26pm
I went back to 11 speed on all of my bikes about 4 years ago. I find it far less finicky than 12 speed to set up and spending less on wear items suits me fine.
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Eoin Added a reply to The Risk of Riding Mountain Bikes
11/26/2024 9:53am I haven't ridden BC outside of a day trip to Whistler over ten years ago when I was a complete beginner. But looking at the videos from Remy and other YouTubers there seems to be endless "pro" level trails that I would probably stay away from despite considering myself a very good rider. That said, I'm blown away with some...
Eoin Added a reply to MTB Podcast
11/25/2024 4:51am Ebike specific, but I find the Recharged podcast, from Rob Rides EMTB on youtube, to be quite good to know about what's coming up in tech. Obviously they have a lot of embargoes etc, but they manage to convey quite a lot good info about trends and upcoming tech.