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they are about to, but Conti will call it xyzzy or some shit

Shut the fuck up about drivetrain efficiency. Holy shit. Go find a different thread.

I typically use the climb switch once per ride. I like to turn it on halfway up the climb when I remember I have it and might as well use it. I tend to turn it off halfway down the descent when I’m puzzling over why my suspension isn’t working. I suspect I am not in the minority.

My guess is they’ll phase out the aluminum Reserve products to position Reserve as the premium product with a premium warranty. It would be a sneaky way to quietly stop offering a lifetime warranty/replacement on aluminum wheels too.

Given a long enough timeline, everything regresses to the mean (crab.)

So in essence you're telling me we are witnessing the birth of crab wheels, to go along the new generation of crab Santa Cruz bikes?

The electronic suspension/high pivot/stand up and pedal convo is the dumbest thing to happen to tech rumors in a long time. Banal, illogical, myopic.

In a regular bike you have one big bearing for the crank. Using an idler wheel means you have a second mounting point including additional bearings that have a certain resistance when spinning. So the resistance from bearings is roughly doubled compared to a non-idler-bike. I really don't see how an electronic suspension could improve this.

The reason flight attendant has a huge uptake in XC is because SRAM sponsored teams are required to run it. I know four different world cup athletes and they have all said they would just prefer a manual lockout. When it works properly it's alright but it's heavy and frequently has connectivity problems between all the components. It seems more casual users like it with one less thing to think about while riding and the weight doesn't matter to a more casual rider. As for trail/enduro bikes, ever wonder why every single SRAM EWS athlete stopped riding LYRIK and started...

Yes, but I think other people in this thread have clearly explained why those efficiencies don't offer any unique benefits to high pivot, gearbox, or idler-based designs. Yes, electronics would make high pivot, gearbox, and idler-based bikes more efficient, but at the same time they'd be making all the other bikes more efficient, too. If Dave has four apples and Lisa has six apples, and you give them both four apples, Lisa still has more apples than Dave. Now, I guess if you're saying that electronic lockouts give them both the equivalent of 100 additional apples, then I would concede...

77° effective STA and 70° true STA

In short to your question, no. What electronic shifting will do is increase the efficiency of a given bike by adapting to the behaviour and lock out while pedalling (if we're talking flight attendant). For an already efficient kinematics design (around 100 % antisquat), the change will be miniscule, in my experience more or less related to added ride harshness over an open shock with a minimal change in the amount the bike bobs. For an inherently inefficient suspension design, one exhibiting a lot of pedal bob, either due to not enough antisquat (suspension compressing under power) or too much...

Ck out Amuary's setup, his mechanic just used some felt. I don't think foam would be a good application, probably get ripped off very fast. I use gloves, rubbing friction issues haven't been an issue for me.

I got my first ride on these today. I'll get more in the coming week I'm sure. I paired them with a grip change to Wolf Tooth's lockon grips. For a little background, I have pretty significant neuropathy problems in both of my arms due to long running Cubital Tunnel syndrome. I've had surgery but the pain still exists when I ride and sometimes it still lingers after. My problems are somewhat the opposite of Joe's, his seem to stem from being highly athletic and having forearm pump, mine stem from sitting behind a computer since I was 8 years...

Statement from the founder of VHS who sold the company to RideWrap. TLDR: owner of Dyedbro is a scumbag To the MTB Community, Back in February, when I first saw the Dyedbro "SHUSH" hit the market, I made some heated comments on social media. I was operating on raw emotion after seeing a product I poured my life into get repackaged by the very people who actively sabotaged my company. Today, the dust has settled, I have the documented receipts, and I want to lay out the exact timeline of what happened. I started Velocity Hucking Systems (VHS) to solve...

Clearly this SHUSH product doesn't work great, it failed to keep Ridewrap silent.

I'm running one for almost three years (not that many vertical on this one though, so can't comment on the durability) with a full Eagle drivetrain otherwise. What others have already told holds true. It doesn't shift as fast as an original Sram one, it really likes to be shifted one gear at a time, otherwise you'll lose the meshing and drop the chain to the bottom of the cassette. Other than that, it works. It's light. And it is the only cassette with the sensible 32 37 44 52 sequence of gears without any weird jumps.

Thanks Vital + Deity 🤙