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We’ve ridden every version and evolution of the RXF38 fork from Öhlins, and we’ve always been very impressed by it. Not ones to ever rest on their laurels, Öhlins dropped the m.3 generation of said fork in 2025, and we were of course eager to put it to the test. It came with the classic promise of “revised internals, less friction, and a new damping tune,” but what would the story be out on the trail? Keep reading to find out! Öhlins RXF38 m.3 Air Highlights TTX twin-tube damping technology Independent spring and damper system Retuned air spring system...

I worked on advocacy for the 15 minute city concept, and can tell you that literally no one has actually proposed restricting travel. That idea is a "bUt OuR fReEdUmB" talking point aimed at people who do their own "research".

A bit of (very) good news for enduro racing. It seems that one of the series that was a pillar in the creation of the EWS is coming back. Something tells me this could end up having a big impact on our sport. https://www.instagram.com/superenduromtb/

Ok here is the first example of pressures inside the shock and what changes when you tune the base valve VS changing the main piston. The first picture is the compression damping of the 2 different arrangements - Both are quite firm tunes, that are similar-ish in overall damping rate. The blue line has a firm tune on the main piston with a softer base valve and lots of free bleed and the turquoise line has a firmer base valve and moderately stiff main piston. This is a pretty extreme case but it shows the best difference in what happens...

I'm sorry this is pedantic but every VPP and DW link suspension design is already a four bar linkage

https://www.crankbrothers.com/products/plug-mate-tire-plug-anchor-kit 👀 No more blowouts.

I believe they can be from the photo and what's in the text. Looks like maybe 15mm of adjustment up and down.

bought new forks the other day

Apologies if this is too far off topic, but Escape Collective just announced they're now cash-flow neutral (they've been running a deficit since they launched). Pretty impressive when you consider how much high-quality content they put out and and doubly so that it's funded entirely by member subscriptions.

When I started diving deeper into all of this bar and stem geometry when I designed our bars, I built myself a handy little tool to play around with cockpit geometries that takes bar roll into account. Stack and Reach is taken into account, depending on bar roll, but I have not yet found a way to calculate the sweep angles, as a function of bar roll. Either it's very complicated or I am just not seeing the forest for the trees. Brain gets mushy after some time of trigonometrics, espoecially in excel. But it's quite fun to play with.

Well, I watched the video linked in the first post and I felt I needed to correct some things. In the video it is being said that you "sverve" around the steering axis rather than rotate around it. This is just plain wrong, hence my picture in my original post. Maybe this picture makes it more clear. It does not matter how long your stem. Any given point on a handlebar rotates in a perferct circle around the steering axis. It's just that simple. Again, I am not saying that different stem lengths can not feel greatly different on one...

More on the topic here, too: https://bikeyoke.com/media/6e/59/d6/1741646748/Handlebar%20geometry%20e…

Here is your difference in steering bwetween a 70mm stem and a 35mm stem with straight 800mm bars. A video to make the scribbely lines more understandable: https://photos.app.goo.gl/bYf6TE4obQUwvhJG7 As you can see, the rotation diameters are virtually same (406mm vs 401mm). That's about a 1% difference. Your hands will travel about the same amount: 212mm vs. 210mm for a 30° handlebar turn. That's less than a 1% difference. What is slightly different is, of course the the "angle of attack" from which your hand will start moving, but that is because a longer stem will stretch your upper body position...

New compression block upgrade from Fast Suspension for the RockShox ZEB R, RC, and Select just launched: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/fast-suspension-introduces-….

DragonSpeed is doing sportscar/endurance racing since about 15 years. 24 Hours of Mans (1 class win), 24 Hours of Daytona (3 class wins) and other major races (+ 3 participations at Indy 500). European Champion in Prototype, doint World Endurance Championship, last year runner-up in GT Pro (USA) with a Ferrari, this year with a new Corvette Z06 GT3.R. Why MTB DH. The team principal (former pro driver) and myself, we are passionnate about MTB DH first (I did at low level when I was younger). Then, of course, all the technical aspects - suspension, brakes, tires... - and all...