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Horst Link is the name for the whole package, not the pivot on the chainstay

The primary source of friction in chain drives (cross chaining aside) is the links rotating as they enter each chain ring. The larger the degree that the rotate, the more friction there is. Larger chain rings equate to less friction because the chain links don't have to rotate as much. The amount of chain actually in contact with the chain ring does not matter because it's static relative to the chain ring. For example, on a 36T chain ring each link has to rotate 10 degrees relative to the adjacent link as it enters the chain ring. Meanwhile, on a...

Renishaw, who makes the ti-printers, are a massive investor in Atherton bikes. So that helped a lot. Other than that, they hired the Robot bike engineers and bought the IP to the process.

The bolts are torqued and pre-tensioned so they are not a passive element and are acting on the stiffness of the caliper in a different way, all other things being equal this can result in a stiffer caliper than an equivalent 1 piece design. You can do a bad job of designing either type of course.

Servicability wise Sram is probably the best option.

Any extra pressure in brakes will go somewhere. Either inflate the bladder (and could cause problems once water is ingested and the volume increases, see option two) or the caliper pistons will push out and advance towards the rotor to take up the slack. The timing of the port will stay the same and the brakes will grab at the same time. Maybe the bite point will be quicker because the pads are advanced more, but you don't need to overfill the system to achieve that, just advance the pistons. Or get contact point adjust brakes...

Yep! Gearboxes are THAT BAD that we'd rather put up with all the faffing with chains. j/k. The truth is I've never ridden a gearbox and have nothing against them. I just like making jokes. I'm down to try one as soon as they end up on a bike that I'd be interested in buying, in a price range I want to hit, at a time I'm looking to buy one, and designed with my specific use case in mind.

The "preference" for Mineral oil doesn't seem to have much scientific basis to it, and it is still a petroleum product so you're really just trading one evil for another. It appears that the EU and other places are looking to impose more restrictions on DOT fluid to reduce the number of harmful chemicals used, but not explicitly saying that mineral oil is better alternative. It wouldn't surprise me if its purely a cost thing - that lack of regulation means brake companies can put what ever discount baby oil in their brakes they feel like and it doesn't need...

Should this be renamed to "Tech Rumors and Innovation, until a brand asks for posts to be deleted"?

I also worked at a dealer when the SBs launched and yeah, it was as bad as the comment sections made it sound

I like Spembo

looks like they're the creation of that Lee likes bikes guy. I've always thought that guy was kinda an idiot.

What I took away from this Charlie is that you’re still riding 175mm cranks