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As suspected, the leverage ratio is regressive to start, then progressive once the link and shock go beyond 90 deg.

Your progressive and regressive zones are backwards. In general, and I mean very general because millimeters can have large effects on the outcome, link-shock angle 90 degrees or more produce a rising progressive rate, and any portion less than 90 degrees will produce a regressive rate. So just eyeballing that image and assuming 40mm stroke, the kinematic would be regressive...

2 possible reasons for this: the longer i2i allows the rate curve for that suspension design to be more linear, or they made room for a 210 shock for the EVO version. My guess is the first given that both the SIDLuxe and Float SL shocks have very progressive air cans.

Props for the Sheldon Brown reference.

These segmentation activities are just what the bike industry needed after emerging from post-covid inventory challenges and begin to enter supply chain pressures caused by the gulf war.

Happy to be corrected. I was doing some research on tabless battery types and 4680 cells were the latest ones I could find. However the math wasn't adding up for me because the FP700 could only fit 7 of these cells, leaving no room for any of the extra hardware and only giving about 600wh of capacity. This new 50480...

Correction: Avinox actually designed their own cell. I'm kinda surprised, but maybe not for a company their size. The 5048 cell they used in based off the tabless 4680 design that Tesla came up with, but appears to optimize the shape for the "right size" downtube. I stick by my take that the automotive industry will keep driving the future...