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So, I think I finally have enough time on it to develop an opinion. Is it a better fork than the 38 gripx2? Yes. Does it have a much narrower sweet spot than the old fork. Very much so. So, I've kinda thrown everything at the fork in trying to make it feel good. Tokens in, tokens out, less sag, more sag, tons of HSC, no HSC, so on and so forth. If you did this with the old fork you could still get something that was more or less rideable. Not so with this fork. I think, in large...

Saw the pack of them up there yesterday too — could be a sign. But the new LT has long chainstays, and I don't think they'd landed on that geo yet when they made the mold for the DH bike. The current proto has a rear pivot, so no adjustable CS either. I've got 7 days on my V10 now, and the long chainstay (460) with a 475 reach is clearly the best. If they launch the DH bike with a stubby CS (like Pivot), it'd be a real letdown.

I keep seeing Yeti employees up at Trestle on the DH bike. I have to wonder if it’s going to release to the public soon.

Given the talent, the talent in opposition to Hattie, and the hard yards she's done, it's pretty bloody well earned!

Maybe Scott tries to claim that - heating is definitely an issue but 95% of the time the airflow over an "external" shock is enough that they reach an equilibrium and don't normally exceed 40-50 degrees in regular use. Extreme, high speed descents might get a bit hotter but high speed = high air flow so most of the time things balance out. On the dyno though if you run a shock at a speed roughly equivalent to the average energy of a DH run, it will heat at a constant rate and can reach 60 degrees in 3 minutes...

Came across this on Loic’s bike from Les Gets. It looks like the sub-chamber from a push 9.1 modified to fit the Öhlins dh38? I know it’s been rumoured that Loic runs a coil fork, so interesting if he’s play with the sub-chamber on a coil fork now too.

I think so yeah. I always kind of laughed at the overheating comments because I feel like riders will worry about that so heavily to write it off, then they go ride their Specialized Enduro with 18 of the 20 bearings notching and a lightly blown coil but still enjoy their ride to some degree. (Nothing against people that ride an Enduro, just jabbing at the insane number of bearings to worry about)

my post about the charger 2.1 swap somehow disapeard / got deleted (???) but nevermind, thanks for the tip. tossed in a charger 2.1 in the new zeb. feels way smoother AND more supportive. only downside: i can hear the oil squishing. but that's it so far. thanks for your help @Dougal - SC

@jessemelamed got any insights for us?👀

friends don't let friends ride maguras today's view from the office (Davos in the background):

reducing my accumulated overtime hours in style

Laser cutting hardened steel results in pretty significant stresses due to the thermal differential. I’ve never seen steel come off the bed, hardened or not, that was flat after being cut by a laser. Lots of post work is required to result in rotors that don’t suck (imo). Stamping doesn’t mean that it’s garbage. I would suspect there is a lot more going on behind the scenes than people think to get “good” rotors. That being said I think ice-tech rotors are garbage and are more prone to thermal warpage than solid rotor. Ive trued more Shimano rotors than I’ve...

LSC 5 , HSC 4 , HSR 2 , LSR 0 That’s basically the setting Cotic reccomended +- a few clicks here and there. It’s a gen 2 Kitsuma 550lb Coil, I weigh 87kg, on a Rocketmax gen 4 XL. I’m kind of a set and forget guy, I expected to find the rebound too fast but not so. The riding I like doing is steep enduro type tracks but more often than not find myself on local off piste, which are often trying to get the most out of 60m of vert with little stump jumps and the like...

I have to give Maxxis props on this, I normally go through 2 rears a season and I feel like this might actually make it! at 200lb I'm not the easiest on rear tires either.