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Added bike check Banshee Phantom V3.2
11/12/2025 8:08pm
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kc358 Added a reply to New EVIL Offering - Forum Hot Seat with Evil Bikes
11/11/2025 9:14am Yes, you can try more air pressure (or LSC) but that has negatives to it. Lose sensitivity and too much ramp. Going to a short stroke shock the idea is you change the compression ratio inside the shock as well as the starting volume. I think that if simple "more pressure/LSC" was the answer we would have 180mm XC bikes...
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11/11/2025 9:04am They say you can't long-stroke it, but can't find anything about short-stroke. There's no mechanical reason not to, long-stroke is a clearance issue at bottom out, short only improves clearance. It's more about how it is affected by linkage curve.
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11/10/2025 1:19pm Not sure if Evil is still around after this thread got derailed. But if so; can the bike be short-stroked (and still perform properly)? Would be interesting if it could be run as a 140R/150F trail bike for majority of use, then converted back to 150/160 or 150/170 when traveling to somewhere with bigger trails. Or is there simply no...
kc358 Added a comment about press release Superior Spring Curve to Coil? Vorsprung Launches the Secus
8/6/2020 11:28pm
I’m excited for these new suspension bits, but after reading that whole thing I still don’t know what this does. I don’t mean the claims, but what does it actually do? Is it a larger negative spring? High pressure additional main chamber like Runt just external? What’s this “Midstroke Support Valve”?
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kc358 Added a comment about press release Introducing The RUNT by Diaz Suspension Design
3/6/2019 6:09am
It’s certainly less beneficial for a lighter rider. Also, since this acts as idle adding 5 tokens, you would be increasing the spring rate a lot, which is likely already too stiff for such a light rider. Whcih you’d have to compensate for by lowering the pressure. Then you’d end up with a mushy initial stroke followed by a stiff mid-stroke and your kid would never see the last 1/3 of travel. That’s just my opinion based on suspension theory though.
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kc358 Added a reply to The Patent Thread - New and Wild Mountain Bike Inventions
2/28/2019 7:48pm Are you just referring to a bottom out bumper? Motorcycle shocks all have these and they are mediocre solutions at best. The extreme high spring force creates kickback after the initial slam. Similar to why the ramp in air shocks is bad. Hydraulic bottom out is much better. There are multiple solutions used currently. Fox, and a couple others, have...
kc358 Added a comment about press release Introducing The RUNT by Diaz Suspension Design
2/4/2019 8:39pm
This is amazing. I’ve been calling for this for like 5 years. Air forks have always been a compromise in setup and this is one of the best solutions. I remember when I first saw it on Fox’s snowmobile shock and new that was needed in mountain bikes. I can’t believe they have sat on the technology. It effectively allows you to properly set air pressure for preload while having midstroke support without horrible end travel ramp. Now this just needs to be incorporated into the original fork design so that the primary air chamber volume can be adjustable. That’s...
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Added bike check Maverick Durance: Chewmani
7/16/2016 8:39pm
kc358 Added a reply to The Patent Thread - New and Wild Mountain Bike Inventions
4/5/2016 8:17pm If that's their aim, then I wouldn't see the point. Sure, if they could produce a cassette competitive in weight with GX for $50 then great, otherwise, I would hope to see something around $100 for closer to XX1 weight, the missing segment right now. But, we will have to see what they do (if anything).
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4/5/2016 5:18pm I would think the point wouldn't be to make it cheaper than the (though still expensive) GX cassette, but to make something at the GX price that is at the X1-XX1 performance/weight. That's the tough thing right now. You can get an affordable 11-speed cassette, but it is very heavy compared to a cassette from 2 years ago, or you...
kc358 Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Dave Camp, RockShox Design Engineer
11/19/2015 6:57pm I'm more in tune with the motocross world I guess, where mid-stroke harshness is the biggest issue with the air forks. They start ramping up there and you get a spike rather than smooth, plush suspension like coil. Showa and KYB have both employed multiple air chambers, though neither have utilized them to control spring rate vs progression.
kc358 Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Dave Camp, RockShox Design Engineer
11/19/2015 5:08pm Ramp is much better controlled by frame design. Adding ramp to the spring and not the damping causes bad performance characteristics. It has been tried in motorcycle forks and shocks and abandoned for bad performance. In fact, some designs that have high praise now use progressive end damping with a straight rate spring in forks. Shocks work well with a...
kc358 Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Dave Camp, RockShox Design Engineer
11/19/2015 4:51pm With current tokens/bands both bottom out (progression) and spring rate are affected, so if you need a stiffer spring you will unfortunately suffer from mid-stroke harshness. Do you see Rock Shox making a system to separate these adjustments?
kc358 Added a comment about video Red Bull Rampage 2002 from Clappin' Yo Dome
10/13/2015 8:39pm
I love how raw and ungroomed it is. Red Bull should have done that when they switched to a new location, the first couple years, only minor grooming. The stuff now is gnarly as well, but raw big mountain would be just as awesome to see. Rotation between them would be perfect.
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kc358 Added a comment about video Top 10 Weirdest Mountain Bikes Ever
10/11/2015 12:02pm
I've been riding a Maverick Durance for about 6 months now and it works amazingly well. But it certainly has many unique, and some strange looking, designs. The welded dual crown forks with the fat mid-section, integrated shock and the slack seat tube. I do find it better looking in person than in pictures though.
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9/6/2015 10:08am
Maverick forks work just great in low speeds. The big issue with inverted is the sliders can rotate in the outer tubes. These use a keyway to keep them from rotating, so should be much stiffer. Also, the Revel has, by far, the best air spring design. Far above anything Fox/RS/DVO, etc offer.
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9/5/2015 10:27pm
This is a sweet idea, so long as they fix reliability issues.
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