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Automotive has done it for decades. Blame the user, not the equipment.

Love this survey! Thanks for asking the questions we're all wondering.

The remaining RockShox forks and shocks are finally officially live: Zeb - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/2027-rockshox-zeb-fork-tech-info-im… Lyrik and Super Deluxe - https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/first-look-my27-rockshox-lyrik-fork-a… Vivid - https://www.vitalmtb.com/product/guide/rear-shocks/rockshox/vivid-ultim… There is a lot of trickle down tech that was first released with Boxxer and Vivid Coil. My time has been most spent on the new Zeb, and it's been really really impressive. So much grip, really light off the top and easy on the hands, new ABO adjustment is really useful and impactful, and the fork has felt the same day in and day out. It's definitely linear, so has a different feel. More muted and calm...

After my MS diagnosis and symptoms caused me to stop riding, I got a job at Art's cycles doing bike building/packing and I started a list of new bike tech that would come up that I've never gotten to use. Some of it was from before but I hadn't been able to afford. Inserts are on that list. Along with 27.5 and 29 inch wheels and many more. But I got So good at installing them. Experience installing motorcycle tires helped immensely. But most installs at the shop usually came back to me. Rims have that deeper section for a...

Used to not run them till I gained weight and started denting rims, ran them after that for a long time but thought I would try running DH casing tires on the rear, within a few weeks of that I dented my rim really bad and so I'm going back to them on the rear. I run the Tannus Tubeless Armor

I've had mixed luck with carbon wheels. I had a set of Enve DH rims a long time ago that I broke a lot of (pre-Cushcore), but I've got a set of carbon XTR rims on my current lighter duty trail bike that have been fine. I've wondered how a DH tire/carbon rim would work for me on my long travel enduro bike, but haven't been a-thousand-dollars-curious yet. I also really like the flex of alloy wheels, and while I imagine the current crop of carbon DH and enduro rims are better than what I rode back in 2013, I'm...

Like a lot of people, I am not very smart. Also, I have been riding tubes quite some time and when I switched onto tubeless back in 2018, on my Intense Tracer VP, I thought that will protect me from flats. I only knew DH tires, I didn't care much about wall thickness, soft compounds etc. But I learned with or without my will. The next year I got a 29” Foxy and kept flatting with tubeless. I got sick of this, after I ruined what should've been a good enduro race at the beginning of the season. This involved...

I've had very good results with cushcore, and the Trail version is the goldilocks version for me for the rear tires on my Trail, Enduro, and DH bikes. I run the XC version on my XC bike as well.

last two bikes i had the vittoria airliner in the back, new bike gets the new airliner enduro.

No insert guy here. I'm around 265ish and have been on WAO Strife (dh) rims on dh casing tires for the past three seasons and no rim failures and no flats. I'm a pretty smooth rider, but ride pretty hard and live in the rockies and terrain can be pretty unforgiving. If that ever changes, might look into them, but for the time being, life is fine without them.

I run Cushcore Pro F/R on my park bikes in the summer. North east rocks EAT wheels alive, and they seem to help save the rims from this. I'll still get a good ding here and there, but the rims definitely last longer. The downside is slower acceleration due to the heavier mass, but that's somewhat compensated for by the extra mass helping to carry you through chunk.

Team Robot is spot on with why you might need them. It's interesting reading everyone's different uses and setups. Particularly Storm Racing with the thicker with skinny tyres and thinner with DH tyres. I get that, even if at first it makes no sense, especially as now my use has changed. Also interesting to note that many DH pro's don't use them these days after the initial buzz, but I think almost all XC pro's, even some cyclocross and roadies use them to allow them to keep going until a replacement is available on the course. Cobbled classics season, perfect...

Huge cushcore fan and user here. Absolutely must have a Cushcore pro in rear wheels otherwise I will destroy them. The tire support for cornering is a nice benefit. I think I like the damped feel too, but that's definitely not the main reason I run them. I used to go through multiple rear wheels a year before Cushcore, which got really old. As others have mentioned, when I take a used Cushcore Pro insert out of my rear tire, it's completely knackered, covered in knife slits from the rim, which leads me to believe it's really doing it's job...

I was an insert denier until this winter... I've destroyed a freshly built-up FR541 (which I put on a rear wheel to replace an EX511 that lasted maybe a year and never survived Northstar season) by hucking into a root on upper Jugs. That somehow didnt impact the sidewalls at all, but made a big enough well on the bead shelves so the system wouldnt hold air. It did not help to put tape pieces or rubber repair thingies to smooth it out too. Given the NA prices for DT Swiss, I figured I can eat the cushcore price. It...

I originally got cushcore back in the day right when it came out because I had just got a new to me used DH with Enves on it and wanted to protect them since I didn't have warranty and no money after that purchase. Since then, I have been a user on every bike. What is interesting is that I use XC on my DH bike and Pro on my trail bike. I have been considering going down to XC on my trail bike recently but I certainly smash way more unexpected rocks on my trail bike whereas I know...