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just6979 Liked a reply to forum topic BB-height, cornering and why mullet bikes might turn better.
4/26/2021 5:45am
"And if you, and then your weight, is connected to the bike through a point that sits below this point, you must push through some leverage to tip the bike." No. The "tipping point" is the ground. Even if the BB is below the axles, there is no "leverage" to push through. It's just lower, and this has less distance to move laterally for a given lean angle. A higher BB moves further laterally for a given lean angle, which could be good or bad depending on corners (bermed, flat, off-camber).
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faul Added a reply to How stiff are dual crown forks?
4/13/2021 1:28pm I was mainly answering the 2.5 factor mentioned in the "TL:DR part". But graphs are showing more than a factor two in torsion stiffness, for SC forks, so it seems a bit huge, as in real forks a factor 2 between a stiff 35mm SC and a flexy 32 mm SC USD fork is a big difference. That's why I...
faul Added a reply to How stiff are dual crown forks?
4/11/2021 1:39pm I'm skeptical about some results. A 2.5 factor between USD and no-USD forks is huge. More than in real life even with smaller tubes on the USD forks. Maybe your arch is a bit overkill as it seems plain. A single crown bike fork is about 20 to 30 Nm/° of torsional stiffness. Are your results in this range?
faul Added a reply to What's with high pivots?
4/4/2021 7:25am The santa cruz article tries to justify 2012 santa's rear suspensions, so it's all false. There is two ways about high pivot: either raising a pivot with a conventional drivetrain, that is compromising other things elswhere. Or rising the pivot so much you now need an idler pulley to adjust chain tension and other characteristics. This is another world and...
Primoz Liked a reply to forum topic Are Upside-Down forks really flexy?
3/27/2021 2:48am
There is some stuff happening... 
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kr4j Liked a reply to forum topic DIY mtb telemetry system
3/18/2021 3:20pm
Hey Alek, great implementation! I think the use of a LiDar sensor is brilliant, I didn't think of that in my bachelor thesis where I designed a similar system some years ago, also using an Arduino. My design uses a pressure sensor connected to the fork or shock, like the Shockwiz does, but connecting the sensor to the air chamber and precisely converting the pressure changes into movement of the suspension element was quite a pain at first. Like you, I also store the data on an SD card. After managing to achieve a maximum of about 50 Hz in...
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faul Added a reply to Are Upside-Down forks really flexy?
3/6/2021 7:57am Just found out this topic as I searched for an old article about suspension stiffness. (also found out I had a vitalmtb profile) Thanks for your work. I saw someone writing about Crconception. I'm a big fanboy of his products so maybe biased. I can translate some things for those interested, just ask me. (but I don't know if my...
