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Phil Atwill is an AWESOME addition to hard league

here is the brake-specific forum thread to put useful information about current brakes into a place where it can be read by people looking for advice on brake setup. it has over 2900 replies about brakes.

ducks for cover

@sethimus @Evil96 @CascadeComponents I love, like love-love, that someone with an engineering background (and seemingly a degree) and a wealth of manufacturing experience provided factual mathematical evidence, and it has been refuted by "I believe the manufacturer of this shiny new thing I bought", like conformation bias doesnt exist or something.... There's a quote about facts and opinions that I'm trying to remember here...... it'll come to me....

The only way I see to have any meaningfull data from accelerometers to get suspension movement is if you have two accelerometers at each end of the suspension unit (fork crown and lowers or both shock ends) and compare the two. The difference between the two will be what actually moves the moveable part of the shock, from that you could get speeds and then movements. But you're not doing that with 25 USD BT accelerometers. You'd need a serious DAQ with synced channels to do that kind of measurements. As said, that website is full of red flags and...

String pot update... next iteration done and ready to ride. Testing duties will be delegated as I'm recovering from shoulder surgery but hopefully will have some results to share soon.

Im just being an annoying ME now but porous ceramics are a thing except they are sintered from larger diameter media, under much less heat and pressure, and make great filtration devices. Porous media has not only gas but at most times liquid permeability of which ceramic pistons that we are discussing do not. These are most likely manufactured via hot press method that results in a non-porous but poor surface finish alumina or yttria ceramic oxide that's commonly called zirconia. I work with high performance ceramics for both filtration and high strength hard on hard seal applications. But from...

There's a good amount of perspective/distortion in play. If you take the center of the tire instead of the axle, you'd get a 40mm difference. Not saying the rear center is 420mm, but I'm not sure it's actually a longer backend and not just a stronger rear triangle.

Back at it again with my horrendous image measurements, this time something actually bicycle related. I took the shock eye to eye of 225mm and zoomed in super close to align it to the centre of the shock bolts and scaled the image until the measurement was exactly 225. I drew a line to the middle of the shimano crank spindle and the middle of the rear thru-axle (also zoomed in until my eyes were bleeding to estimate the centre as best as possible). I then measured the horizontal distance between the two points (used construction lines to make this...

Something with more travel from Significant Other? Should be sweet..

crazy what a little bit of undiagnosed autism can do

warming up

I'm here to nerd out on brakes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Are we sure that's not a bottlerocket?

Looks like Rob Warner lining up in the 50+ class and Eliot Jackson in the Open class. Looking forward to the vid.

Our French-speaking colleagues at Vojo Mag reporting that Isabeau Courdurier is planning to come back to racing in 2026 (after the recent birth of her first child). She will race select enduro and DH events, with the focus mostly on the latter (coached by Cecile Ravanel).

I'm here to defend (good) trail associations. I was the first Executive Director of Evergreen MTB Alliance in WA State in the early 00's and then on the exec committee of the board for another 10 years. We (both paid crews and volunteers) built tons of tech trails, and yeah a lot of flow trails and jump lines for the masses. I think a good balance between the styles. Behind the scenes we fought HARD to keep open the unsanctioned areas - areas I rode and may or may not have spent countless hours digging at That fight wasn't...

here is one of many trail building / advocacy forum topics - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/The-Hub,2/I-dont-like-the-direction-of-… use it or start your own instead of talking trails in tech rumors.