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Bar choice- the taller, the more compliant the bar is. I’ve found great results with One Up Aluminum 35mm rise. I use ODI slip on long neck grips. I’ve found the lock ones are more rigid Tire pressure- on Continental I’m 24/26 Suspension setup - I’ve done lots of suspension testing that can transform your bike. If there is a local tuner to help you, or YouTube has tons of great videos from Fox about suspension set up.

What really worked for me in getting rid of hand pain/arm pump/fatigue: bar roll and brake lever angle. Bar roll actually makes a bigger difference for me, espeically in terms of hand pain/fatigue. I roll my bar forward probably more than average. Also, the flatter the brake levers ar set, the less arm pump I get, but it's then a threshold between getting rid of arm pump vs correct body positionig for me. Also, surprisingly, I prefer thinner grips to reduce arm pump, even though i have big hands. You lose a bit of damping from the lower thickness but...

Hang from overhead bar as long as possible. Do it as a training regime. You all can thank me later.

I suffered with Sore hands/fingers for ages The two biggest helpers were: Oneup bars Not death gripping, and this is where good grips like the new odi reflex come in - these are amazing IMO. (not death gripping also elimated arm pump for me) Next was brakes... You need to look at braking efficiency and not 'bring to a stop' - Brakes like shimano Have poor Braking efficiency and because of this many people Drag their brakes which will kill your hands. I started running hope tech 4 v4 brakes and they were basically the end all issues deal, They...

On the fork set up note - friction is king. Or the lack of it, more specifically. Fresh oil, good bushing clearance and good seal design (or a coil spring) make the biggest difference. Then an overly broad rule of thumb is to start with minimal tokens and find the highest pressure that doesn't compromise grip or comfort, then add tokens if needed after that. Because air springs are progressive, the instantaneous rate at the point of sag doesn't exactly get lower proportionally to how much air you remove. Sitting higher in the travel gives you more available travel to...

So many good suggestions above! Things that have helped me: tl;dr - there's no magic fix, try lots of things, starting w/ the easy/cheap ones first. - OneUp bars (both the alu and carbon worked for me) - Hayes Dominion A4s w/ the SFL lever option - Fatter grips (this was surprising to me for some reason, I guess because I have small hands it didn't occur to me to try) - Chin-ups/pull-ups - Messing around w/ bar roll and lever angle (REALLY wish there were standards for bar/stem markings for this) - Trying to be conscious about my grip...

Figured it was edited as the exclamation sure felt out of place 😂

Maybe its fluid filled.... Imagine a h-bar filled with a magnetorheological fluid, that can be activated by the push of a button to increase/decrease vibration dampening.....cause its fluid filled, so dampener....

Some actual tech rumors, proto high pivot Devinci Wilson out now. Saw him riding this in Whistler today and it looks sick

Telemetry systems are banned under the UCI rules. i wish news articles would call it the proper name data acquisition NOT telemetry! telemetry broadcasts to a third party location, ie you sat at home at a computer this is banned recording data that is collected on the bike is not

(Remember when Willy Wonka sent candy over radio? I'm kinda hoping to learn that telemeatery is sending meat.) Well technically cell phones and WiFi both are radio waves. So wouldn't "sending meat over radio just be a dick pic?

teamrobot set a record for forum thumbs up, so here's a preview of what's to come (unlisted, only for the special people in this forum topic) regarding taking out pawls and testing ochain.

Would be cool to include an older/less modern bike (compatibility considered) that has a ridiculous amount of pedal kickback. Or a budget bike.

least conspicuous way to say „hey look we’re riding proto rims (which have a massive flat spot at 9:10 o'clock)" Can be conspicuous some of the time, just not all the time.

Would y'all want to see a 15-minute VitalMTB video with back-to-back testing on a section of brutal rocky chunder with different pedal kickback theories to see if the Ochain really works as advertised?

What advantage is there to wetting the fork in a certain travel range?