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"micro dyno" for your race truck or small shop. $6,800 USD. PR below LABA7 Launches MICRO Shock Dyno for Trackside Testing Built for race teams, service trucks, and workshops that could not fit a dyno before. VILNIUS, Lithuania - Racing teams can now test dampers at the track more easily, on a machine that occupies just 0.14 m2. LABA7 launches the MICRO Shock Dyno, a tabletop machine with lab-grade testing quality. It runs from a standard single-phase socket and holds velocity as low as 1 mm/s throughout the cycle. “Until now, a shock dyno meant a room. If teams could...

I would bet my whole fleet of bikes on it still being plastic bullshit that will break when a pixie farts 2 miles away. I think the only person more stubborn than the twinloc guy at Scott is the "maguras must be plastic bullshit" guy.

Yes that's what I wrote. It does not say what you thought it said.

You made your point and I agreed, no need to keep going on and on about it.

Give it a rest we get it. It’s a mtb site not a corporate HR class.

Sorry for the hate speech but I feel like the Brembos will be a huge flop. They've hyped themselves up for way over a year which has lead to the results you mentioned. Omakacycle has a set of GR-PRO's and the quality seems to be on par with Hayes (AKA disgusting), especially taking the price into account (paint runs, sloppy bar clamps and poor overall finish). Considering how many can't setup Mavens properly, I think there will be a similar problem with the GR-PRO's, especially when you need to buy the bleed kit separately and I'm 101 % sure there...

It’s weird - sram can release an ecosystem of groups with proprietary cassettes, derailleurs, chains, rings, that have stratospheric prices and persistent issues (speed, shift calibration limitations, QC issues, cassettes that need to be installed multiple times to settle, battery pins corroding etc etc), plus compromises they try and correct release to release. Maybe that’s ok, it’s up to the rider. At the same time, Shimano releases a new di2 ecosystem that uses their existing(and awesome) cassettes, chains, rings, has the industry leading shifter for ergonomics. A sealed battery compartment, but its perceived to be noisy on some bikes, but...

I was thinking the same thing. You could test this theory pretty easily by swapping the rear pads and rear rotor to the front, and vice verse with the front pads and front rotor to the back. If your noise moves, it's a contamination/chemical problem. If your noise doesn't move, it's a heat/mechanical problem.

Hi, that's a lot of words. Nice to meet you. I don't know why you take my words so seriously, I'm just a guy who likes to tinker with this stuff and share what I've found. I've also found the owners of some stuff get quite aggressive when I mention it might be less than perfect for every rider everywhere! This makes for some bizarre discussions. The GRIPX2 for example is firmer than every other GRIP and every other recent Fox damper. The square edge harshness was a known problem and that's why Fox redesigned the midvalve in their latest...

Before this goes the wrong way: Some commentators are plainly frustrated rather than hateful. It becomes clear if you allow for that perspective when reading the respective comments. To stay with the example: I would love the Grip X to be great for as many people as possible. After all, I guess everyone that is as deep into the matter as the people reading this are asked "What would you buy" from time to time. I think there were potential for this to be true. In my opinion, current fork offerings from Fox are much better than their Rockshox counterparts...

"it appears that DServy was banned from MTBR following some controversial or unkind posts. [ 1 ]" The plot thickens lol, havent seen anything dickish from Dougal here, just helpful advice (dont know the past).

I hate to break it to you, but both can be true. There can both be utter fanboys of anything (big suspension, tuners, products, what have you) and designs that are objectively really poor. Designs where you have to wonder how they passed any testing. Before getting into such issues, suspension setups of less experienced riders tend to have a lot of room for improvement. I think that's due to mostly two reasons: - A heap of "tutorials" are put out by people that are at least bad at explaining and maybe even bad at understanding the concepts behind suspension...

My Italian is a little rusty, but it seems this was made using a servo from the RC world, connected to some kind of stroke measuring device on the brake lever blade. The idea being to change the compression settings of the shock under different types of braking events.