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fluider Added a reply to Kinematics
5/20/2025 1:29am Od course the Linkage can calculate this arrangement. I haven't follow the very last discussion but chain routed under the idler instead of over it (as is generally used) increases the required chain growth hence pedal kickback.
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fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
1/30/2024 9:47pm Wau! That is interesting video with Banshee frame. I'm sure, for this time it was human force who very cautiously put all frame tubes and fixed into welding jig. But in 10 years maybe robots will do that as well :-). Imagine, if small brand like Banshee can use this method which in my opinion isn't cheap, then for bigger...
fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
1/30/2024 1:28pm OK then. But Giant and Merida are manufacturing like for entire cycling industry using robots because quantities asked from West are so vastly huge that robots may be viable option. But there are small brands like Banshee, or RAW, who get their frames manufactured in small companies.
fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
1/30/2024 1:11pm Workers in China, Vietnam, etc who by their gained welding skills stand over those hydroformed tubes and weld them each day for few hundred dollars into bicycle may not be human to you, while guy putting glue in a lug and then tube in that lug may be human to you, But, yes, this weird world has always been like...
fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
1/30/2024 12:35am I bet, entire swingarm is made of 3 parts: 3d printed sides/triangles and one tube permanently connecting them behind BB. https://p.vitalmtb.com/photos/inline/basic/whatisthisbike2.jpg?VersionI…
fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
1/30/2024 12:28am Yes, to me it seems they printed entire side of the swing arm. The chainstay is hollow from its bottom with ribs inside. However, the L shape on seatstays seems to get narrow toward the seat tube and I can't see any L near the rocker.
fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
1/29/2024 11:43pm Based on shape and orientation. It seems to be pretty thin, at least from those pictures. But maybe it has some 3d printed super clever ribs inside.
fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
1/29/2024 9:39pm That seatstays on new Atherton must be flexy as a sheet of steel.
Martin_Prophet Liked a bike check Nicolai Nucleon 16 Supre
1/25/2024 1:42am
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fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
1/17/2024 11:37pm Interesting, that he is grasping for the saddle while airborne. Just like there was a lever between his middle finger and saddle
fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
1/5/2024 2:00pm Finally a damper with ball joint instead of plain bushing.
fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
1/3/2024 4:42am I bet it's Darkside which will be updated with current suspension platform. And it'll be end of an era of traditional Banshee layout with shock horizontally placed into the middle of downtube. I'm still rocking Banshee Rune ... V1.5, with custom ballbearing suspension links, slackened HA by -2°. Changed drivetrains, forks, wheels but that thing can't get broken. How am...
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12/14/2023 5:45am I'm no expert at carbon fiber and resins used but corrosion appears on carbon to resin interface if there is aluminum on the other side. Leading to loss of bondage. How would you disconnect entire lug when one of its connections need repair?
fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
12/13/2023 2:34am Why would there be big hole right behind the upper headset bearing, where high impact loads are transferred? Anyway I love the looks of that frame. Pitty it's not DW6 layout but still very interesting.
fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
12/4/2023 10:20pm No, I just compared electro signals in one metal thread to another metal thread.
fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
12/4/2023 1:45pm I think Brembo, or Bosch?, developed brake by wire braking in their electro wheels. Why are so afraid? Your fighter jets are totally drive by wire almost 30 years. And US techno is top of all, isn't it?
MTBrent Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/28/2023 5:34am
I swapped elevensix for sveight in the URL... https://www.pushindustries.com/products/sveight
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fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/17/2023 11:08pm What is this USD fork? Very interesting. I can't recognize the white logo on right leg.
fluider Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/16/2023 1:46pm So the 6-bar suspension is the new AntiSquat. I remember the beginning of era when Dave Weagle introduced this term into MTB and had spent many years explaining it. That time a ridemonkey.com used to be my first-to-open web site each day. I think 6bars will receive big development and testing efforts. 6bar is even more important/potential up front than...
