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For years people have been asking for MGUs from SRAM and Shimano and there has long been speculation that those brands didn’t get involved because they didn’t want to undermine their own market share of expensive, high wear components. In doing so they’ve left their flank wide open for a Chinese company to swallow up the drivetrain market while solving issues riders have complained about for decades. Horrific miscalculation from the drivetrain cartel.

Turns out it's a dropper post, pretty much.

Lee from Ride 886 here. A primary goal when designing the TopHat was to address what we felt were limitations with the products currently available aftermarket. Namely, reducing unnecessary internal volume as much as possible, adding additional tuning option that are decoupled from the pressure ratio, purposely not designing around a predetermined ratio or theoretical spring curve, creating a modular design that can be adapted cheaply to a new fork purchase whenever possible, adding value for customers by manufacturing and including a quality installation/removal tool, including replacement seals and publishing all other o-ring specs, building a robust website with easy...

You can change the effective piston stroke, the initial volume it takes up in the fork, and the internal volume of the unit itself (to alter the ramp characteristics). It is not limited to a specific travel like the other options are if you want to change air springs. And it comes with a top cap socket tool. A true puzzlers delight! 😊 I'm hoping they'll make one for Intend forks at some point. The Linearizer option Intend makes is quite limited in comparison.

As a person in the bike indusrty for 30+ years, Owned a bike store for 6 years, And has owned 5 Yeti's one of which is still my favorite bike my 2021 SB 160E still going strong. Today was eye opening! The MGU and CVT is real. DJI is not a copycat, And will eat the big 3 bikes brands lunch now. And the sixfinaty Yeti pedal bike is around the corner. Weird day..

I think Avinox reached out to the brands that showed bikes today and asked them if the would develop some frames to showcase it. It sounds like there's still a bit of work to be done to have it market ready but one of the main Avninox guys expressed a desire to have it to market in 2027.

Big fan of this... anyone else notice the dropouts? Looks like they're modular like on the Forbiddens so assume wheel size changes wiith these rather than a flip chip on the ebikes.

coming July I heard

A lot of companies will ship internationally but pass the tariff bill on because the actual invisible cost is so high. Let's say you have a $50 part imported into the US direct to consumer and you want to cover the costs by sending it DPP (delivery duty paid). UPS will pay the $10 fee and invoice your account. For this service they charge a disbursement fee of 2% of the tariff bill or $17, which evert is higher. So the actual cost of import is $22. No matter how cheap the imported item is it will get hit with...

US orders are shipped both from the US and direct from the supplier in Taiwan. If stock in the US runs low we can switch to fulfilling orders direct from the factory. In either case you will never get a tariff bill or have to deal with customs in any way, that is all paid for and handled on our end in advance. No surprises, no extra fees for customers later on. The same is true for international orders, we handle the customs and import procedures rather than passing that burden and the cost on to you.

MGU = motorgearboxunit meaning electric motor and gearbox in one housing without the need for a derailleur and a big cassette. Regenerative braking would be a cool feature but I don't see that in the near future due to the necessity to transport energy over the chain/belt the other way around than normal. And I think the effect wouldn't be that big either as you can only replace the braking of the back wheel and most braking should be done in the front.

Stay away from trees 😀

Yeah, with the opportunity to change air volume and travel in the secondary positive air spring, this appears to offer a lot of tuning parameters that simply don't exist with the other comparable products. I'm not sure of any other company (DSD, Ohlins, Manitou, Chickadee Hill, Formula, etc) who offer the adjustments that the Tophat does. Does the average customer need that much adjustment? Of course not, because the average customer doesn't need any of these extremely niche products. But I definitely think there's a customer who would benefit from it. I'm excited to get one and try it on...

On the flip side Frameworks bikes are a beautiful exercise in refining, exploring and taking the 4 bar design in making as uncompromised as possible. Both are awesome in there own way.

I've been running one for a couple months now on a '25 Fox 38 and it really opens up the ability to change the character of the fork without cracking it open. I haven't messed around with spacers yet, just pressures and ratios and am very satisfied. It does what is claimed; more top end sensitivity. I find I'm running less compression damping than with my previous 2 spacer setup at Fox recommended pressures. Messed around with some very progressive ratios just for fun and you can get to very supple top end with bottomless feeling, however it sacrificed too...

No need to invade if you can just soft power annihilate every industry they have.