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https://youtu.be/zebFOJnrdTE?si=MqFn4sS0LlUTlbx- MX wheels - 150 mm VPP rear travel - 160 mm fork - Progressive geometry - Available in Carbon C & CC - Color: Kalimotxo & Gloss Root Beer - Sizes: S-XXL - Lifetime frame & bearing warranty

With all the Interviews, FAQ for DI2 recently and now the spyshots, I‘m sure the release is just around the corner.

Regarding the SC Bronson/Hightower picture posted, both the dark red and pink have 36 fork which would confirm they are indeed Bronson and Hightower and not Mega/Nomad. 100% sure older Hightower couldn't fit a X2 and Bronson was able to fit a coil but not high volume air shock like X2 or Vivid. The new big window above the BB is most likely to give access to air valve at the middle of the shock and easier access to rebound on most coil shock (rotate 180deg the lower eyelet to have access from the bottom for the rebound dial). The...

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You mean like this? - https://thesuspensionlab.nz/blog/2021/1/31/effects-of-temperature-on-su… I ran those tests about 5 years ago, it just took a while to get round to writing them up. It was mostly comparing different oils to see how much affect they had but overall the changes were pretty minor. I've found on the trail that shocks heat up pretty rapidly to around 20*c (even bouncing around the carpark will warm it up alot) and then starts to taper off and typically reach an equilibrium between 30 and 40 degrees. Through that range the different in damping is negligible. There might be some cases...

Some more pictures. I love my Bronson V4 I don‘t know how it could be better. From Trail/Enduro rides to Bikepark it is perfect.

while i agree that many riders often have "more" bike than they need for a given trail, i'm not sure if this comes from a desire to be "overbiked" or just that many riders have one bike. they need it to cover many different kinds of terrains and difficulty levels - which results on inherently being overbiked on some trails.

I like it. Bucking the longer travel trend. Not everyone wants or needs 120mm of travel. I find my Spur to be as fast, or faster, than my enduro bike in 95% of descents. Unpopular opinion - most people would be better off (maybe even enjoy riding more) with less bike than they currently use. I'm in the front range and it's shocking how many coil shocked, 160mm bikes you see getting totted around what could easily be rigid singlespeed territory.

The damper is pretty consistent. Damper fluid is designed to have consistent viscosity across a wide range of temperatures… that is the whole reason to have a special oil. Plus the fact that shim valves aren’t terribly sensitive to viscosity in the first place. I’ve run these experiments on a dyno FYI- small % changes at most. Air springs on the other hand gain noticeable pressure when hot. I’m always a bit skeptical when someone complains about their coil shock becoming a pogo stick due to heat. More than likely it’s you and your (weak, non-world cup) legs getting fatigued...

I think Dave mentioned at some point it's not that big of an issue? FWIW, the old Vivid had a plastic rebound needle to compensate for the temperature differences (warming up would close off the rebound needle port due to expansion), don't think it's a feature on any other shocks though. Regarding my 'making bikes to sell' comment, I've mentioned in the 'companies going under' thread bikes are a bit different to what happens in motorsport - in F1, LMP1, MotoGP and the like, the companies (factories) make vehicles made specifically to race in the racing series, mostly to race...

https://www.trekbikes.com/cn/zh_CN/自行车/山地车/越野山地车/procaliber/c/B312/ Looks weird to me...

The shock will get hotter, that is not a question. And they do get hotter during use, that is clear if you run your bike in the mud - it's all dried up on the shock and brakes. My point was, if the shock warming up was such an issue, shocks would have cooling fins on them already. And bikes would have air deflectors to improve cooling and the like. It currently doesn't seem to be a big enough problem to deal with or maybe not a performance gain big enough to deal with. That WC PROs suffer from this...

You've got it wrong. This is Scott, if you remember. High/low speed compression and rebound will be easily accessible externally, via handlebar mounted, cable actuated remote.

Two grip shifts on each side, left hand for high-speed and low-speed compression, and right hand for high-speed and low-speed rebound.

I may be no enginologist, but I'm pretty sure that damping is the act of turning kinetic energy into thermal energy. That heat has to go somewhere and stuffing the shock into an enclosed space will limit both convection and radiation. Is cooling reduced enough to matter? Open question, but shocks for sure get hotter in this configuration. Do we think this configuration was cooked up in the quest of performance, or in order to make MTBs look more like road bikes?

Alternate ending: Rider shrugs and heads back up for more laps. Rather than endlessly fiddling with shock settings, they just get used to how the bike rides. They get faster, more confident, more faster, more confident. Lap times tumble, the confidence is there. Come finals the heavens open while they’re waiting to drop. Other riders scramble, calling Jordie asking for wet settings, stressing out. Our rider looks down at the frame, their fate sealed just as the shock below them. Shrugs. They couldn’t do anything even if they wanted to. They drop. The confidence. Bike and rider as one they...

I saw them at park city a few weeks ago. One of the pivot owners. Must have been escaping the AZ heat. He said no plans to commercialize the carbon lugged mule, it’s just for prototyping (sad!). Apparently costs like 22k per frame or something crazy. Looks amazing in person. Had a 38 and an X2, no high pivot, had what looked like shortish chain stays and didn’t appear super slacked out, but tough to say for sure.

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