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I much prefer DC forks for burly enduro trails, lift assisted dh or bike park runs. If the daily uphill ride is over 500m vertical, then I’d rather take another bike or modify the bike for these long, one day epics, w/ a sc fork.

I feel like this could work on my ebike: Looks super wide

This is a non-issue. You simply buy a race for your dual crown (its different) and you leave the race on your single crown. When you switch, these should stay put. I see no reason you should be swapping entire headsets. Maybe I'm misreading?

More pics and info about Kayaba fork. Coil + air spring (like in old Marzocchi?) 20mm axle, weight 2900g, price ~1650$ https://mds.co.jp/news/2025/07/18/24687/

The Entourage was one of the funnest bikes I ever owned. The "mini-DH" bikes of that era, like the TR250, were so rad. Probably too niche to make it back into bike brand lineups, however, especially in these times and with many in this demographic moving to ebikes.

Kind of sad about this While I’m waiting for the release of a bike to put an Intend fork on I noticed they replaced the travelizer with the Travel Ranger, I loved the idea of running the fork lower most of the times and bump it up 10mm for trips like Whistler and similar

Respectfully, it's more accurate to say " Pro tip, your super enduro will absolutely be acceptable for DH trails." No matter how good long travel single crown bikes are these days, there's still no replacement for displacement.

I suspect we'll see more of the one frame Enduro/ DH bike moving forward. Orbea proved the concept can work, and it spreads the development cost over a larger amount of bikes. It's better for the manufacturers. Riders like the concept of being able to swap out the fork and shock for the once or twice a year park day, even if most riders never do it. It's the same as flip chips, most riders find the setting they like and stay there. I'd bet a good bit of riders never change the flip chip from the out of the...

This might be of interest to some, this is how rolling your bars 10 or 20° backwards affects the geometry of the bar if you have a 35 mm riser bar with 8/5° of sweep. The stack and setback (negative reach) are somewhat specific to the case, but it still gives some good insight on how some values are barely affected (backsweep), while others are greatly affected (the setback basically makes your bike almost a size smaller reach wise): More backsweep and less upsweep both contribute to pushing your elbows inwards, giving you a less attacking position. Is this part...

Not exactly an innovation per se; but Raaw has started offering the option to rent a toolbox full of all their adjustments included. You get it for two weeks so you can decide if any of those adjustments make sense before you buy. And, get a discount when you do decide to buy something afterwards. Pretty cool idea. https://raawmtb.com/en-us/collections/parts/products/raaw-factory-suppo…

Actual Knolly prototype, or just Knolly stickers on a Santa Cruz/Crestline/similar? Would be quite surprised to see Knolly make such a drastic move away from their existing suspension platform, design language, materials, etc.

Damping needs to be adjusted to compensate for the change in leverage ratio regardless of what shock is being run.

Tapered steerer to show that it’s a direct 1:1 replacement for a zeb or 38 whatever. I think a lot of people don’t understand the reducer crown race. Agree you don’t need it, and it’s probably worse.

I pushed the rock shox product manager to keep the 35mm Boxxer and update with a tapered steerer and 15mm axle for these bikes. Shot down.

Felt this was a fitting place to post my thoughts on running a Boxxer on a Spire. Spoiler Alert: Its the best setup I've run thus far. I genuinely don't understand why we don't see this more often, from ~160-170mm on up. Especially on e-bikes. I suppose price is part of it, but my real guess is what I'm going to call "mimesis"; we all broadly follow more than we lead. And breaking convention is hard.

It's okay though, the Tariffs will bring Hope back to the US where they so clearly belong, after they outsourced their engineering to Lancashire to make it cheaper 😂

wrong, you got hit hard by your government