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Disregard, apparently it's a charging cable for the pinion. Surprised it's the best place to put it though...

Anyone got a better picture of a Gamux proto with those new Dominions? What's interesting is that there are two hoses getting out, and I don't really see a shifter or something else mounted on another photo:

Replacing the Strive? That’s crazy So you have to either choose more of a trail bike or a freeride bike as an enduro, not a 160mm bike

The rims on Calebs bike are aluminum, I saw them in person. There will be carbon wheels too. Should be released within the next weeks from what I was told.

It's not, thankfully, Blister has a photo of it on their review below. It looks like it's a short spring (5mm) that preloads the piston to get it moving https://blisterreview.com/gear-reviews/manitou-mezzer-mezzer-lt-gen-2

The anticipated updates to the Manitou Mezzer are finally being uncovered. https://road.cc/offroad/tech-news/manitous-updated-mezzer-gen-2-suspens… Edit- PB also has their photo album up. https://www.pinkbike.com/u/HayesPerformanceSystems/album/Manitou-Mezzer…

Regarding Oneup wheels, there's a design engineer job opening with them that mentions designing wheels specifically...

Look weirdly tall to be a new product by today’s carbon rims standard

OneUp Rims? On Caleb Holonkos Bike

Forbidden also messing around with the e-bike without a motor to test out some DH stuff with Laurie. 'The bike Laurie rode during the week was an early proof-of-concept acoustic DH build using a Dreadnought E front triangle and a number of custom parts. It was built to get the gravity project moving in the real world, giving the team something to ride, change, measure, and question while putting early ideas underneath a rider who can give accurate feedback at speed.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLJAPe6Hl3s

I’m dying of thirst over here

It depends on the shape of the spring curve for the air spring. The curve has a vague S shape to it. Initially it will be stiffer than a coil, then softer, and then stiffer towards end of travel (or not in some cases). A small volume air shock can have an insane amount of ramp to offset that mid-stroke range so the bottom out resistance from one of those is hard to beat. Meanwhile large volume air shocks often have worse mid-stroke and bottom out if they don’t have volume spacers installed. See the Vivid below.

Some interesting thoughts from the guys at Spot about chainstay length in a podcast about their new bike on the Bikes & Big Ideas podcast with Simon Stewart. https://blisterreview.com/podcasts/spots-ryan-palmer-on-their-new-light… Geometry talk starts around 29 minutes in but the whole podcast is a great listen! Side note: I really dig both Simon's episodes and David Golay's episodes of the Bikes & Big Ideas podcast. I know the pacing of the speech in the David-hosted episodes is challenging for some folks but if you can hang with those episodes there's a ton of cool info and cool people to learn from/about!

Shockcraft Bomber CR kit teaser. Converts all shims to 8mm ID with a new piston bolt for the base valve as well.

A bunch of comparisons mainly looking at wheel force because that's what you really feel not the leverage curve. 160 mm bikes with different progression amounts normalized for identical sag at the wheel. Including -4%. The wheel force plot is purely looking at wheel force due to the spring. As you can see, there is a very significant difference at bottom of travel. If you were to zoom in on the sag point, you can easily see that a more progressive bike has a lower force at all points before the sag point and a higher force at all points...

I am not seeing how the last 4 pages of this thread have anything to do with rumors or innovation.

@Shinook copying this over to here so as to not continue blowing up tech rumors... This doesn't match my experiences. I tried both air and coil shocks on my Murmur and preferred the coil by a very wide margin. It felt absolutely horrible on air for me. I had 0 issues with bottoming out on rocky sections and pretty much the only time I got close was on drops to flat. Even then it wasn't harsh at any point. I ride mostly natural trails and tried it a few times at bike parks, never had this issue there either. OTOH...

Jesus, sorry I asked about a coil shock on the new Tallboy.

I recently read an article by the enduro mag. They made a survey and found out that 70% of their readers that took part in the survey never changed their rebound from what the bike came with. The amount of people riding bikes that dont have a clue about basic setup is very high. For them, something like the progression rate is not relevant. We are all so far off the average user that we are not who brands have to engineer their bikes for. https://enduro-mtb.com/performance-gap-das-dilemma-moderner-bikes/