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Jmhdh Added a comment about feature We Ride Coil and Air Shocks Back-to-Back

10/17/2017 8:57pm
Of course, since the progression curve of a coil shock (linear) is different than an air shock (progressive, flat in mid-stroke, then progressive again), you really can't go ride each on the same bike. If you design the bike for an air shock, you need to adjust the leverage curve to compensate. One of them is going to be kinda poor performing, or if the bike is designed to be a compromise between the two they are both going to be "meh". This review had good intentions, but just because manufacturers spec both coil and air shocks on the same...
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Jmhdh Added a comment about feature So British | Riding the Hope HB.160

8/24/2017 11:55pm
Wouldn't ride that horst-link POS in a hundred years. Reading between the lines, it sounds like it pedals like ****, like most/many horst-link bikes do. Combine it with a bunch of new standards and you got 100% fail. Yes, there are some good ideas about the standards, but such marginal improvements that there's really no point.
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Jmhdh Added a comment about feature Vital MTB Face Off: The Best Dropper Seatposts

5/12/2017 11:05pm
It doesn't contaminate that easily. If you carry it upside down maybe, but simply setting it on it's side is usually not enough to do it. Riding it hard over a 50 mile race last weekend (followed by a 65 mile trail ride two days after and a bunch of other riding) it was flawless. A few crashes here and there in Sedona too, again, no problems or sagginess during riding. You'd have to do something pretty dramatic to make that happen. If you set the bike upside down while fixing a flat, then yeah, it's going to sag, but...
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Jmhdh Added a comment about feature Vital MTB Face Off: The Best Dropper Seatposts

5/12/2017 11:02pm
I have the revive and the transfer. The revive is my favorite, much more sensitive to pressure to control extension and great ergonomics. My transfer with the wolftooth remote isn't far behind, but long term the revive seems to make more sense. It does get saggy easy if you turn the bike upside down or similar (like putting it in the back of a wagon), but it's also dead simple/fast to fix and it doesn't sag down on rides, even hugely abusive 50 mile races with 8,300' of descending, like last week I went in early during the kickstarter...
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