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Evil96 Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
2/10/2024 6:46pm
i see that the new dreadnought post got removed, that's not fair
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smelly Liked a reply to forum topic influencers on Geometry & Suspension
2/9/2024 9:57pm
And how has Horst Leitner not been mentioned? DW and Horst link are used on like half the suspension bikes that get sold (since a Giant is a DW link). there were plenty of people who made good suspension for the era, or made something innovative. But these two guys have made something that lasted.
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Digit Bikes Liked a reply to forum topic influencers on Geometry & Suspension
2/9/2024 9:57pm
As founder of Rock Shox, Paul Turner had a very significant influence on MTB suspension. After Rock Shox, Paul founded Maverick, the Speedball was the first mainstream dropper post, modern geometry would not have developed as it has without dropper posts.
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Maxipedia Liked a reply to forum topic influencers on Geometry & Suspension
2/9/2024 9:57pm
Dude, when the man said ”influencers”, he actually meant the people who PUT IN THE WORK and changed our bikes for the good, not some guys from YouTube, who turn some knobs and are all in for the news. Before there were influencers of today, followed on social media, the people who were influencing stuff were the ones who worked in certain domains, mostly behind the scenes, and used their work to change their respective industries for the better. There is a misunderstanding. Pilgrim and Boostmaster are probably nice people, but they are definitely not bike or suspension engineers, just...
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Big Bird Liked a reply to forum topic influencers on Geometry & Suspension
2/9/2024 9:56pm
I don't remember what bikes they were riding at the time, but I have a few frame design drawings with more modern geometry that I labeled "Atherton Edition."
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Maxipedia Liked a reply to forum topic influencers on Geometry & Suspension
2/9/2024 9:54pm
As far as I know, Gary Fisher has influenced MTB geometry twice: once in the 80's and then exactly in 1998, when Fisher bikes were the first to have longer top tubes and shorter stems plus shorter chainstays. They called it the Genesis geometry back then. Bikes typically had 120-135 mm stems on medium/large sized bikes, Fishers sported 80 mm. I think they also had custom crowns with different offset on the forks. Trek bikes had a toned down version of the geometry. And don't forget about the pioneering of 29” wheels, as it is also a geometry thing. Fishers...
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Nic Cotton Liked a reply to forum topic influencers on Geometry & Suspension
2/9/2024 9:54pm
Don't forget the racers either: Nico Vouilloz, Fabien Barel, Greg Minnaar are the ones that spring to mind first but I am sure there are others that pushed the envelope too!
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big b Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
2/8/2024 7:15pm
Feb 22nd Sram has some new products being released. I bet the brakes will be part of that.
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JVP Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
2/5/2024 4:02pm
I hope you're right. But again, 55mm chainlines aren't ideal on 148, and very few consumers even know what a chainline is or how to optimize it. Brand managers are now incentivized to go to 157 in order to have better OEM SRAM Transmission shifting on regular bikes. E-bikes are mostly fine on 55 and boost 148 since they'll spend less time in the pie plate... except when they do use the 52t, ugh. I'm sure SRAM went 55 as a standard to reduce SKU count for chainrings and a focus on e-bikes. I prefer boost and 52mm chainlines even...
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acambo Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
2/4/2024 6:47pm
My guess is that its just a Titan with dorado's and his idler chainring. To run his short stems you need to size up and so it would be an xl frame with a 490mm seat tube. This forces Rulezman to run a 125mm dropper post, which created the funniest excuse of "125mm dropper to save energy from squatting a smaller distance".
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