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If the Pivot is the only bike that breaks this week from that drop (which it likely will be at this point), then it's not a good look for Pivot. While hardline is an extreme use case, if all the other brand's bikes hold up, it shows that the Pivot is not as strong. For instance, there are guys like Bulldog, who probably outweighs BK by 30%+, coming off the same drop on his 'cheap' ARI frame and it's holding up. The Pivot frame is VERY light. I believe the lightest weight production frame (by far). I'm assuming Pivot engineers...

Effigear run a fixed rear hub so the chains always spinning. WRP have a similar system with a crank based freewheel. These likely work well on clean fresh chains and get worse from there. You could probably do the same on the pinion as it has a freewheel up front but it would suck for rolling speed. There's no reason to add that drag.

Looks like the gearbox bikes in Hardline Tasmania have no trouble clearing the jumps where BK says he is giving his 100% on. Bad news for the "too much drag" crew I guess

Need to resurrect the old Ridemonkey thread about all of those breaking. That was some internet gold.

So one reason why I'm hesistant to share breakages of bikes online is that stuff sticks around forever.....I worked for a Yeti dealer at that time when the "pre production" frames had thin chainstays which cracked very easily. But it was just that very small number of initial bikes, I think we sold 2 SB6's from the batch and yeah they broke but the dozens that followed were fine in that regard (not perfrect bikes but the chainstays were actually fixed). But that reputation definitely stuck with Yeti which is a shame since it was such a small number of...

"Lots of people liked this, lets use that color and the saddle"

Maybe instead of strapping weights to the frame to make it heavier, they should add a bit more carbon? Curious to see if Pivot is as forthcoming about this failure as they were the prototype. Especially now that they've released this bike to the public.

"The bike design for the person who would drive their bike out to a trailhead to pose for a photo on the hood of their small suv." - Henry Ford

They did, but durability wasn't the issue. The surface was too smooth so had a tremendous amount of stiction.

It's not a problem, the rotor will contact the hose only when you are inserting the wheel, and even the hardly. Single piece calipers always have the plugs on the outside, there isn't enough space for them on the inside. As for the hose, it won't really be a problem, it's not that close and there's airflow. Weird way to mount a banjo to the caliper, that is true (I prefer the way it is done on Codes), but still. And never route the hose in the outside of the fork.

What makes you think it's installed upside down? And why can't it be good to overlap the hose?

A while back I rode a Zerode at a demo day, it climbed just fine, rear suspension felt incredible on the way back down. Some stats on efficiency here, which may or may not be accurate https://zerodebikes.com/pages/drag All things considered I'm not sure it's a big issue.

First look of Lewis big new 4 piston brake called Extreme that is coming soon.

The real fix for headset routing is no headset routing.

Not dissing on the stroke shift dude, but piercing 2 bean shaped holes in a plate would warrant a patent ? smh

I like Spembo

Push something with a (bike) chain. This is what compressing a shock with the eyelets oriented in the same plane would be like. It would just buckle. Yokes are the death of shocks because of sideloads. The front of the shock is (side to side) solidly mounted but the eyelet can cause loads from the side. The problem is the leverage exerted on the shock is higher because of the length of the yoke vs. The shock being mounted directly to a rocker. One solution to this would be how Pole mounted the shock, rotated 90 degrees sideways on both...

Ah the chain example helps a lot. Thanks for that. That is a good work around for pole. I always wondered why they did that.

Brembo Specialized?