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My money is on a new Manitou shock

I really thought the new sender was going to be a 6-bar. This design kinda goes against current choices from other brands. I would be interested to know the reasoning behind it. Looks amazing though, very similar to the Darkmatter:

unmasked canyon DH bike from ft bill pits washing area

Intend Edge carbon prototype on the latest Rulezman video

A chrome finish, while they look cool, pretty much have to be on steel stanchions. I had a domain in 2010, with those steel & chrome stanchions, and it wasn't that much heavier than the alternative for 180mm single crown, and even shared the same damping as the lower model Totem (the alternative). I beat the crap out of those lowers, but the steel stanchions could take a solid hit without even a scratch. I wonder if its possible to do steel stanchions, but somehow lighter, now that its been a decade.

Just posted by Chris, think he saw us chatting about it?!

Looks like FOX wont be the only ones with gold on the front of bikes this year 👀 the return of Ti Nitrate??

Chris Canfield has a new company coming, Vampire Bikes. Appears to be a steel front triangle, alloy rear. He said that it will be DH/"super enduro", not unlike the Canfield ONE.2

I was out at the Scottish National Champs this weekend and spotted Joe Connell on a prototype Privateer DH bike. Looks like a custom link?

Does it looks like like oval chainstay is on Amaury’s frame compared to rectangle? Also an axle mount to chainstay option vs stock is mounted to seatstay.

Vivid coil?

New session in the works. Screen grabs from team video. Looks like some kind of stiffness around seat tube/BB area. Maybe frame enclosure around shock for lateral stiffness? Chainstay, seatstay look the same.

ronan dunne's prototype summum bike check

Metallic pads aren't inherently more powerful than organic pads and quite often its the opposite. Metallic pads might work better in the wet and are more durable but organic pads like Galfer greens, Sinter greens and Trickstuff power+ are more powerful. Especially in lab conditions.

I've had almost all of them with ride time and the Trickstuff has a lot of similarities with Hope, the quality is just slightly more refined and better, but not by much. They also ditch DOT, which I know some people care more about than others, although it's a big issue in the US where Bionol is nearly impossible to find. I tripped over my bottle and nearly lost half of it, which made for a rough moment and a few bad words. I also feel at the price point they should include bleed tools, Intend does and IMO there...