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TheSuspensionLabNZ Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

9/16/2026 10:08am

You can drop a Jade DH compression assembly straight in to a Voro so 99% of the shock is still Voro. Even the BV piston is the same, the main thing is a different low speed adjuster design and adding a High Speed adjuster to the shim stack

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sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

9/16/2026 10:08am

to everyone bummed on the discussions and derailment, there is that novel idea of starting unique threads for unique topics.

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j0lsrud Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

9/16/2026 10:08am

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdRn56HCRmw/?stkn=bHh1cmVxaWx4em9s Something new from Magura in a couple of days

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seanfisseli Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

9/16/2026 10:07am

There are like 3 completely idiotic conversations happening at once here.

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Bobsmothersbrother Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

9/16/2026 10:06am

I have loved vital for its community and often thought about the quality of the discussion compared to how dougal has burnt threads and almost whole sites to the ground other places. When I saw him posting here the other week I kept an open mind, wondering if he’d read the room. I guess it’s his choice and the mods choice. If he wrecks some of my favourite long running threads here, and pushes away amazing contributors like Darren from Push, I’ll be really sad. I can see that impacting the ability for vital to have such great discussions with...

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lickmycrinkle Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

9/16/2026 10:06am

Can we just cut to the chase and pre-emptively ban Dougal? I thought this place was the last safe haven from his bullshit. The schtick of poo-pooing everything on the planet is old as dirt and he ruins every conversation he butts in on. Doogs, you spend an awful lot of time on forums for someone who claims to be so busy. Go farm downvotes somewhere else.

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seanfisseli Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

9/16/2026 10:06am

This thread used to be good.

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Ride886 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

9/16/2026 10:05am

Noted. So as the in-house suspension engineer for your own small suspension tuning company, what expertise and experience are you drawing on to make such a broad, declarative assessment about large scale manufacturing and production and the brands that rely on it? Please spare us your tired feud with DVO. You've already poisoned the well in multiple other forums with that. Anyway, while I'm happy to share my own narrow experience with Taiwan based manufacturing I won't proclaim to be an expert or an authority, just a sample size of one. But I've made it a rule to show myself...

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Ride886 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

9/16/2026 10:05am

That's an awfully confident statement from someone with little or no experience operating a company with large scale outsourced production, overseas or domestic. Care to share a factual example? Also what and who is a 'marketing type brand?' Last I checked the bike industry is collection of honest brands, riders, and designers trying their best to make products of value or improve the experience and enjoyment of other cyclists. Of course they also have to market and advertise if they want to stay in business, but both realities can coexist. You're the NZ distributer for Hayes/Manitou and operate a suspension...

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Ride886 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker

9/16/2026 10:04am

The soft undercurrent of a few of these post seems to imply anything made in Asia or engineered by Asians is somehow of lower quality. Engineering really has nothing to do with nationality or ethnicity. You can find high and low quality products everywhere in the world. Quality is a reflection of the decisions made by the brand not the the citizenship or location of the engineers. If you are manufacturing at scale at some point you'll need to work with a factory and their engineers. And you'd have a hard time finding a greater concentration of institutional knowledge and...

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