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Yeah I’ve heard the same. Just the demo vids show this thing to be worth the money though! My tire changing tip is to do it the night before, not the morning of. (As with 75% of bike maintenance needs) Making sure the first bead is all the way in the trough of the wheel before getting the other side on has always been an issue for me. I’m too impatient…having that extra bit of slack is very helpful and usually enough to get any tire on without tools. As for seating tubeless beads, I don’t have a compressor but...

Must we, every 3 months, have this same tired drivetrain discussion. You like what you like, I like what I like. No one cares. Start a new topic if you guys want to duke it out about how terrible the wireless world is. Back to the rumors: 30T ochains on more builds in the future from a few brands.

bro's gonna get murdered by big drivetrain illuminati after that one

It’s weird - sram can release an ecosystem of groups with proprietary cassettes, derailleurs, chains, rings, that have stratospheric prices and persistent issues (speed, shift calibration limitations, QC issues, cassettes that need to be installed multiple times to settle, battery pins corroding etc etc), plus compromises they try and correct release to release. Maybe that’s ok, it’s up to the rider. At the same time, Shimano releases a new di2 ecosystem that uses their existing(and awesome) cassettes, chains, rings, has the industry leading shifter for ergonomics. A sealed battery compartment, but its perceived to be noisy on some bikes, but...

Worth noting- broadcast pricing is planned to start at ~$10 USD (depending on exchange rate at the time). This won’t be a normal race broadcast as you know it- we are building out a full show, and when racing goes live we’ll have 40+ cameras on course.

I was thinking the same thing. You could test this theory pretty easily by swapping the rear pads and rear rotor to the front, and vice verse with the front pads and front rotor to the back. If your noise moves, it's a contamination/chemical problem. If your noise doesn't move, it's a heat/mechanical problem.

Oh and the data card at the back of the machine - Typical peak speeds are about 6-8m/s on downhill bike forks, and shocks will be up to around 2.5-3m/s. Most dampers "should" be fairly linear up to those max speeds - some aren't by design, but its rare for the ports to "choke" and start generating excessively high rates at those speeds (despite what some people think). It's more likely that high acceleration causes issues (so very high frequency but relatively low speed) which is why the linear actuator dynos exist.

The machine is basically a motor that turns a shaft, which is turned in to linear up and down motion. The software runs the machine faster and faster, and measures how much force the damper is producing at every point and speed in the stroke. My machine is a CTW "rotary" type dyno with 2 HP and one of the more basic, lower power machines on the market (I think about $15,000 USD today). CTW was born out of a company called Roehrig who pioneered workshop damper testing in the early 90's - many of the older racecar and motorcycle...

Here's a dumb question, but when we talk about dyno charts for suspension components, what does the actual dyno machine look like, and what does the typical dyno test look like? Is a dyno test always necessarily an automated machine process, or can it be reliably performed manually in a hand dyno? Are there different types of dyno machines, or is every suspension brand and independent tuner pretty much using the same machine? How much do dyno test protocols vary between suspension brands and tuning shops? And if there are different machines, is data from one machine or test protocol...

When is everyone going to drop the poles vs tape debate?

To really level the playing field any top level racing should be limited to 20" wheels.

Took the below photo of Asa's bike with what I think is a prototype TRP caliper, cant recall if its been posted before apologies if it has.

Dude you came in with the family planning stats completely out of nowhere. That’s wild. If there’s been a reference to an interview with Tahnee Seagrave about her future life plans somewhere that’s one thing, but I see nothing like that in this thread. You decided your info was germane to the convo. It is not. If, tonight at our 8th grader’s meet-the-teachers event, the gym coach mentions when it makes sense for said 8th grader to pivot from standing broad jump to being preggo, I’m going to make a note of it. “Yeah so we’re all about getting the...

And many folks don't want children at all. I think the real problem stems from discussing non-athletic, personal life things when the person being discussed is a dedicated, lifelong athlete and the discussion is happening in a space dedicated to the discussion of that athletic pursuit. What if your coworkers at every meeting brought up how fucking inept you are at home and that time you threw a tantrum because the sink nozzle was still set to spray rather than stream? Has anyone talked about Finn retiring to become a father? He probably only has a few prime years of...

Hey DH community, We are working to add some west coast events to USDH by hosting a few casual UCI C1 races at our ranch this October. I put a blog post together and you can find it here: https://www.vitalmtb.com/community/judd%20de%20Vall/blog/08/15/2026/ent… We have more than $17k and 1,500 UCI points on the line for Elites this year. It’s fun (and challenging!) to put these together and we hope everyone is excited to come camp and race and support the series. Please spread the word. We will also be doing a C1 the week before Sea Otter in 2027. Hopefully the ranch...

@SIMONS.LAB really cool offering! Any possibility of developing some dampers compatible with dh forks? Would love to try one in my DH38

First up, thank you to the Vital team for presenting our product here! Since a few questions came up, I wanted to chime in and clarify a bit what we mean by the Tune Adjusters. As @Slavid666 analyzed pretty much spot-on, the High-Speed Tune Adjuster changes the port configuration underneath a non-preloaded tapered shim stack. With each adjuster position, one additional port is closed off, changing the hydraulically loaded area of the stack. The shim stack itself stays exactly the same, but the way it is loaded changes, which therefore changes the slope of the resulting force-velocity curve. That is...

A 4" x 0.7" diameter rod of tungsten would weigh about a pound.

Water is pretty heavy