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It's almost always the latter - There has been a lot of quite well proven suspension technology already put to use over the last few decades, we just seem to zig zag between combining different concepts every few years. Not that those products in the past were perfect - its instead of being refined they just get scrapped and replaced with something completely different until someone else comes along and takes the good parts of that design and builds on it. It's either that, or a kind of dual chamber system that closes off near the end of the travel...

Can we get past the idea that everything has to be the same, but also different. Look, if its not for you, its not for you, but could be for others. I have XT's, Code RSC's, and have spent time on TRP DH EVO's. I prefer the RSC's full stop (pun intended, but only after proof reading) I do not want the light lever feel of TRP's or XT's. I find them vague, and prefer the required force to pull RSC's Some people like different things, so lets stop lamenting that SRAM didnt make a brake for YOU, but instead...