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In a world of diaper bikes, be a norco. Rad industrial aluminum protos fully exposed in the wild.

The 29 and 27.5 crowns on the newest 38mm Boxxer are interchangeable. I've got a 29er 38mm Boxxer setup with 44mm offset crowns and reduced down to 190mm travel on my enduro bike. Pretty sweet setup, but a bit heavier than a single crown fork (can't say I noticed that). Also, only 8mm longer axle to crown than the 170mm 38 it replaced!

First of all, ‘bout damn time. Hearing Chris Porter talking about this fork three years ago and now finally seeing a release date… When the prototypes were out there, Formula was saying that it would be closer to the Zeb and 38 in both price and weight. Hopefully they’ll be able to stick to those claims.

Giro & Bell have a similar system (MIPS Spherical), and the Fox Proframe RS also has something like it (and is quite light). While I agree that intuitively this sort of system makes a lot of sense, for whatever reason the 6D ATB-2T and Giro Manifest don't score particularly high on the Virginia Tech rankings. They both get 5 star ratings, but are beaten out by other helmets with more traditional designs. I can't speculate as to why that is. The Manifest is very light too, so it's not a matter of weight.

The full 200mm. Static geometry is a bit wild. The HTA is below 62⁰. However, im running ≈45-50mm of sag (25%) so the dynamic geometry still feels normal. I'm using all 6 volume reducers for bottom out support. Its kind of a weird set up, but it feels really nice.

Bernard Kerr just snapped the front off of his prototype Pivot at Crankworks. I couldn't see if it was the lug or the carbon.

photo looks like epoxy failure between the two materials

Pic of BKs bike for anyone that didn’t see the replay

I think the tapered steerer pretty much confirms that it will be.

Looks like Formula have some new dual crown forks coming

Nigel Page posting what would have been a new reactor frame. I wonder what will happen to all their tooling as it sounds like Mike Ashley only bought the name and I.P. Could a smaller brand swoop in and buy up the tooling from the liquidator?

Other color besides the green/black

Not specific but JUNE 2024 red zeb and charger 3.1

Spoken like someone who’s never had to “declaw” their fingers after multiple Dirt Merchant to A-Line runs… There are just some instances where you don’t want your brake levers to feel like a clapped out 80s ATV...

As someone who has iterated full suspension bikes with Dave Weagle before- the design matrix he shares with his customers to iterate kinematics is more sophisticated than a few graphs, there are a few more integrative rider-focused parameters that I don’t usually see people talk about on message boards he likes to use to relate feel and function. Dave will tell you those unspoken variables are actually the things to look at to compare bikes. Dave’s customer service Special Sauce, if you will…

The lack of graphs isn't due to the Athertons, it's coming from Dave Weagle. I've asked Ibis for graphs before when considering their bikes, and they told me they aren't allowed to share them due to the agreement with DW.

I’m not sure I see a downside to progression in the mid 30% range other than small volume air shocks not being good and some people not being able or use full travel. Some of the most well received links we make are around 35%. To date my fastest lap time on predator is on a bike that’s 36%. The thing I see giving people a hard time as of late is anti rise. There is still a very wide range between different bikes here. Sometimes I get the feeling that people perceive no downside to super low anti rise...

Hear what you're saying but I respectfully disagree that the widespread adoption of public kinematic graphs has been a net negative impact on MTB or even on brands. Yes, there are tons of people who suffer from confirmation bias while bike shopping or bike testing. Most people, in fact. But I think public kinematic graphs have helped make bike design better. Suspension designs are converging in a big way in the last five or so years, corresponding to the same timeframe when graphs have become widespread in product launches. We're mostly in agreement that wild curves in a kinematic graph...

I hope they're a bit more transparent and release the suspension data/graphs with this frame. Pretty disappointing with their DW6 bikes for the price they cost they don't release the leverage graphs etc.

Looks like a Canyon OEM stem, G5 Enduro