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I'm a huge fan of DOET by Dan Norman, and tell people about it all the time. I think I read that whole book in two days. I hurt my neck from nodding along in agreement as I was reading.

Yes, reading torque specs is helpful, but I think that's a pretty high bar to expect for every one of the hundreds of bolts on a bike. Deiter Rams is a pretty smart designer, and he said good design is honest, and it should make a product understandable and useful. Speccing a big tool interface with a low torque spec doesn't seem very honest or understandable, and stripping the threads of your master cylinder doesn't seem to make the product useful, either. Another smart person, a park ranger who was teaching my group of friends about trail design and maintenance...

Agreed on this one, though having one tool to handle everything is also a good design choice from the user's perspective. The thing is, even with a T25 bleed screw, you won't do much damage if you have an aluminium body and a steel screw. The problem lies in having a plastic screw and a plastic body and speccing a tightening torque that is easily achieved 'finger tight' by only tightening by twisting the round stem of the T25 torx wrench without using the perpendicular extension(s). Screwing plastic bolts in plastic threads is just not a common thing and I...

Indeed. As I said "I've never stripped the threads from a Magura master..." but this seems to be a pretty common occurrence. It strikes me that having the torque called out in the manual is often insufficient which is why said perhaps it would be helpful if they they offered some visual cues on the parts such as having "...the torque spec debossed on the clamp." They've been making these brakes for 10 years now so if it were costing Magura too much in warranty replacements or bad press I assume they'd revert to their previous design where the carbotecture...

fwiw, last year was the first year we ever had to pay to get lawlor his creds at a world cup. $3k for the races we attended. it's not a budget killer for us, but $3k goes along way on other projects for us.

Hi, long time WC media guy here (14 years long).. I'm also very curious to hear some names and facts about this from you But in the meantime let me share some of my own. Each team is allowed to register photographers and videographers (each team then receives a set number of photo and video bibs for the season). if someone doesnt work for a team they can register as independent media once they have letters of assignment from a verified media outlet. there are little to no restrictions as to what can be shot/posted. This hasnt changed since the...

Possibly a Mondraker, the shop he rides for is a Mondraker dealer

New Ohlins

He’s got one, part of it anyway, and that’s Evil Bikes Co owned with Kevin Walsh

i immediately thought its an Alu mule for the firebird. I dont imagine another bike company, no matter if its affiliated with DW-Link will blatantly copy the Pivot Phoenix layout, down to the flexstays. but hey, its my best guess. the dual idler gave it away. So now it got me thinking, The Devinci Spartan hmm....that high pivot setup is a little dated now. ++hint hint, im also the one that spy shotted that proto several years ago on the same mountain++ And also the norco range haha

Nope, still wrong.

Tim at Esker here. You are correct sir, it's not us. The only thing I can say is that every guess in this whole thread is flat out wrong.

To jump on this having dealt with spec'ing and getting bars to market, the 35 is stiffer than you will get out of a 31.8. Strength, at max strength 35 may be stronger, but trust me, we aren't getting near failure for either, at the end of the day, weight and flex are bigger issues for the industry than brute strength. The combo does play in. but with the increased need for better ride quality across the industry, 31.8 is very much a viable standard and what most of my riders actually want out of a bar. This includes many...

If designed to the same max load, a 35 mm bar is approximately 10% stiffer. The required cross sectional area of the 35 mm bar is also smaller, so it would be lighter. Below is an example where the bar is evaluated as a basic cantilevered beam where the length is 400 mm and the load is 450 N. r1 and r2 correspond to the 35 mm bar and r3 and r4 correspond to the 31.8 mm bar.

Yikes: Canyon to lay off up to 20% of its HQ staff