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Showing up to a federal land agency meeting with heat maps printed discussing decommission was an eye opening experience. It’s a great tool for them to identify and remove any trail that was a significant amount of time to build. Your 2 minutes of enjoyment likely was 100 hours of work or more. And it just put a bullseye on the trail when you published your ride. You can remove sharing heat maps on your settings, not make rides public and hide your maps. Or just not strava those trails.

I like "emotional support vehicle". Regular Car Reviews once referred to them as "men's rights trucks".

"Designed to push the limits of what's possible on the roughest terrain..." Spec'd with EXO casings 🙃

The holes let oil up to the upper bushing… those are already on current 38 boxxer. Someone patented the channel around the bushings. I’m sure fatigue is been calculated and tested. RS didn’t mess around with fatigue. Also curious how they’re making the dimples.

An extra 1-2#'s of CF reinforcement on a DH bike just makes sense.

It is my opinion that 3% "added" friction because fork misalignment is probably negligible because 3% is. Let's be honest, in a dynamic ride situation, the various level of twisting and buckling forces applied to a fork is going to misalign it. You referenced fox's floating air piston and the whole goal of reducing friction in an air spring; stating how somehow that goal is diminished due to fork misalignment, and I strongly disagree. As I mentioned before (somewhere on vital), air springs are particularly vulnerable to added friction issue due to the issue of needing to seal air AND...

That was actually a really good article - well done Jessie for taking that step, I wish there was more of this from media sites I would roughly guess the friction from bushings and the air spring are 50/50 - there is potentially a ton of bushing friction under high loads/bending, and the air spring has a big impact on smaller, high frequency movements. I believe there is a lot more bending on the air shaft than you would think - my theory on buttercups has always been that they do more for allowing the air shaft to stay properly...

Yep... https://thelostco.com/blogs/blog/fox-na3-glidecore-upgrade-and-overview

“RLS is first and foremost designed to protect what makes you, you”, says RLS founder and CEO Jamie Cook. --->Image from RLS site 😆

"We heard you. We just didn't care"

These guys learning from the likes of NVIDIA how to make a graph look impressive. "Start the X-axis at, say, 170 so our bar looks 3-times as long as the competition's"

Personally a bigger fan of just bracketing my settings on a repeatable section of trail. It gives me a better idea of what all the adjusters do and I can apply that knowledge to later rides when I want to change something.

Not very original, i'll give him 76/100

It is not Delrin, and is in fact something very fancy. The red material we use is fundamentally a bronze-filled PTFE product that is designed to act as a bearing, supporting very high loads while having an extremely low coefficient of friction. We machine the material in-house very carefully, as the material alone costs us $278 per foot! 😒

New Transition soon? Spotted in the Woolley Fest highlight video.

Got no figures to back this up but purely from my memory, Bruni has crashed while being: a) last to drop and b) ahead on split time more than any other racer in history. Thats more of a compliment of how often he actually gets himself into that situation (and that he is so close to the edge of whats possible), rather than a critisism. I don't think he's ever blamed the team, the bike, the components, the mechanic or anyone but himself.

And here I thought it meant cutting corners

Can we officially rename this thread to "The Derailleur"?