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I think this is a great valid question. Here's my two cents on how to make a bike flickable/playful/poppy/unstable (four words that mean basically the same thing in MT : 1. Shorter chainstays. This has been beaten to death. 2. Higher BB. As others have said, your bike is more stable front to back when your feet are below the axles, and less stable when your feet are above them. 3. Smaller wheels. A mullet is more "flickable" than a 29" bike, and a dual 650 bike is going to be more unstable than a mullet bike. 26" bikes are king...

But the fixed point is the rotor contact. The pads will then retract from the rotors, as determined by the amount of fluid the master cylinder pulls back. A bigger caliper piston will roll back less distance but the same amount of fluid will be pulled back by the master cylinder. The pads stop moving when the timing port in the master cylinder is open again.

Personally I don't bother with 4 bars. I just find one good one with cheap jugs and stay there until it's time to go home. If they serve crab then it's definitely a bonus. Gotta get messy when you're getting messy.

And this is why we can't have nice things. "Four bar" is a generic term for a linkage system with... four bars. Axle location has nothing to do with it. Suspension has nothing to do with it. Bikes have nothing to do with it. If you want to call a tire a wheel, go right ahead, it's just not clear what you mean when you say it. Mountain bikers hate that four bar doesn't mean what they think it means after all. Mountain bikers use the term differently. Apart from some. And some others think it's just horst... and some...

I understand. You can use that to calculate the rotated back- and upsweeps based on original back- and upsweeps only. But I had to do this calculation anyway, because I added a separate calculation that gives information about reach and stack values for a trimmed bar, e.g. if you trim your bar from 800 to 760. The additonal trim calculator gives you trimmed reach and trimmed stack and also rotated trimmed reach and trimmed stack. You could then key in those values from the lower trim calculator into the upper cockpit calculator to see how a trimmed bar will affect...

Chain guides have most certainly not disappeared.

More or less the same (upgrade on the cheekbone instead of the arm), except that over here we're not complete asses to people with a different government setup neither are we jealous of them...

I was genuinely intrigued and was thinking of buying one of his stems because the BMB ones are so damn expensive, but an advertisement that calls people who disagree "haters and low IQ" immediately kills any chance of sending money his way.

That guy continues to strive for the asshole of the year award. Any validity of his opinion has been removed by that kneepad/short gap and that’s even before we talk about his “low IQ” dismissal of everyone who dares to disagree with him 😂

Do aero fairings on downhill bikes really make sense? Considering that on road bikes, 80-85% of aero drag comes from the rider. On the bike, a large part of the aero drag are the wheels, where we have large and knobby tires, so how effective deep rim aero wheels would be needs to be tested. Considering the issues with cross-wind stability on these deep wheels, it could be outright dangerous to go over larger jumps at any kind of side winds with them. I think that the easiest aero gains are to be had in clothing (aero socks, skin suits...

As someone who was there from the very beginning (okay EWS #2), I think the story arc of EWS/EDR is a bit more complex that people think, and that Chis Ball is not the boogie man some make him out to be. EWS was not just Chis Ball, it was a run by a board, with Chis as the most public facing member of the organization. Keep in mind that in 2013 enduro racing was seen as an exciting new sport (yes I know, it wasn't new in France and Italy) and the timing was perfect with new wheel sizes...

When I refer to "manpower" I am talking about our in-house capacity. We manufacture/assemble our posts in Taiwan in our own facilities with our own team of now 13 people. That means every single post is assembled by ourselves, not, as it is otherwise often the case, by a "partner"/factory/assembler who is contracted to do all the sourcing, manufacturing, assembly to get the product ready in the box to sell. We draw every single part, source the suppliers, have them made, get them to us and then put everything together in our own facilities with our own machines. No post...

Drink El Tony mate trust me 😁