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Let's stop arguing about boiling points and get back to rumors. I go by which mineral oil tastes the best anyways.

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At 70% travel there is a singularity which allows your spring force to simultaneously be three different values. Some hypothesize that if you can push past 70% travel you will bridge spacetime and land in a parallel universe.

You need to run a Works components lower split race, that has a rubber seal built in. Been running one on my Patrol for years and have cleaned the headset twice. Those FSA headsets that come with bikes are junk. The one on my Stumpy Evo would get dirt in it after 2 rides and the Works crown race totally solved the problem on that bike too.

I hate being that guy... but my experience with zs56|zs66 headset standards on my transition relay has been horrible. The FSA 55r headset that came in the bike is bar none, the worst headset I have dealt with since my days dealing with threaded headsets. Both crown races are terrible designs and are a constant source for noise. The lower split race is a terrible idea, it lets dirt get under it, which causes creaking between the crown race and the crown. The upper race has some terrible tolerances and is both hard to get onto the steer tube and...

You're right, I wrote that like it was a comparison, didn't mean it to sound that way... And even if I did, you're right it's not valid. I haven't been able to find photos of the system you guys were using. I did assume here it was zs56/66. Transition always has a handful of frame details that seem to be finished with an "eh, good enough" type of mentality. That for sure hasn't been my experience with rocky mountains. I assume you guys chose better then transition did. Still, I'm a little bummed to have ended up with a bike...

I was speaking with some guys in the sram tent at a crankworx event shortly after transmission was released and they said that it was a request from frame manufacturers to go to 55mm chain line in order to accomodate a wider variety of suspension linkages and rear triangle layouts.

A standardized (blasphemy!) oval'ish headset standard would be awesome that give +-10mm reach/lots of angle adjust

To keep the ground to headset distance the same, to keep the geometry of the bike the same. A 29 fork is taller, but so is the axle compared to the ground. Putting a 27" wheel in a 29er fork will still drop the front end.

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I just hope one day we as a community will stop trying to compare DH or any form of bike racing to motorsports. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go and try to figure out how to make high pivot moto suspension for ultimate enduro prowess.

I read this twice and I still have no idea what you intended to say other than jaded garbage. You definitely have truly lackluster diction.