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Nobble Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
8/7/2025 7:25am That bike already exists. Both the Spire and Patrol are approved for dual crown forks. My friend was running his Patrol with a Boxxer and DH wheels for the past couple of years. I guess they don’t offer it as a freeride build from the factory but you can 100% do it.
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AgrAde Liked a reply to forum topic Modern Geo Talk: Chainstays, Stack, Reach, and Bitching About It
7/31/2025 6:43am
Oh ok you're one of those. Cool. Please define what you consider a "chainstay" succinctly in a way that actually covers all suspension layouts. I understand suspension dynamics and the concept of leverage quite well. The final year of my degree was mostly concerned with mountain bike suspension design and a fair amount of my experience in engineering has involved linkage systems. You're just assuming I'm a moron because i said you had a shit take on something, and I'm a guy on the internet. Nobody in mountain biking understands that word to mean what you insist it means, and...
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Nobble Added a reply to Alright, body armor. What is the best chest protector? (Also taking knee pad recommendations.)
7/30/2025 9:15am IMO thigh straps are kinda useless but calf straps really help to hold the pads up. The leatt doesn’t have a calf strap but it does have an extra layer of material where a strap would go that helps hold them up. For chest protectors, the IXS Hex might be worth a look. It’s not flexible like the POC or...
Nobble Added a reply to Alright, body armor. What is the best chest protector? (Also taking knee pad recommendations.)
7/30/2025 7:30am I have the new ION chest protector and it’s good. I haven’t crashed in it yet (knock on wood) but it breathes well and moves well on my body when riding. For knees I’m usually running Fox Launch Pro or the Leatt 3df 6.0 knee pads. Both have a harder material over an impact hardening foam. I’d probably give a...
Nobble Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/30/2025 7:18am Sure, they have tall stacks, but you can add stack with handlebars and stem spacers without any significant downsides other than a slight shortening of the reach. I have 35mm rise bars and 20mm of spacers on my 505 reach XL Sentinel. You can’t really add reach. You can change stem length but that has other effects on bike handling.
Nobble Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/30/2025 6:26am I don’t know which bikes you’re looking at because on the ones I’m looking at their geo is definitely outdated, especially for larger riders. I’m 6’3” and consider all of their bikes too small. The largest Titan and Rune they sell only have a 495 reach. The biggest Legend is 480 reach.
TheSuspensionLabNZ Liked a reply to forum topic FOX Podium Inverted MTB Fork - Questions, Answers, Reviews
7/27/2025 8:32pm
Can people redo that drop out test by tightening the pinch bolts incrementally instead of torquing one down completely before doing the other? I know the manual doesn't say that but its the proper way to tighten any pinch bolt system
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Nobble Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/21/2025 11:12am It doesn’t look like it has enough seatpost insertion to be a bike for pedaling.
Nobble Added a reply to Giant Glory MY24 Broken Frames
7/15/2025 8:37pm The ODI Fork bumper is definitely not the root cause but they don’t help the situation. It’s just bad engineering by Giant. If 40 bumpers moving is a big problem then they might be an improvement over a bumper that isn’t where it’s supposed to be. If I could find the ones that came on a used Boxxer I bought...
Nobble Added a reply to Giant Glory MY24 Broken Frames
7/15/2025 3:29pm I’m very suprised to see people running/preaching ODI bumpers. They’re terrible and actively contribute to frame damage. They’re hard plastic and they literally put a metal screw between your frame and fork. Back when I worked in a shop it was common knowledge that they caused dented frames.
nskerb Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/14/2025 10:55am
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TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/14/2025 6:17am
Only mad dogs and Englishmen would tear apart a perfectly good rear wheel to re-use only the rim.
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Nobble Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
7/7/2025 9:33am If I had to double tap my brakes every time I pulled them, I’d throw them straight in the trash. That’s not acceptable brake operation.
yzedf Liked a reply to forum topic Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
7/7/2025 6:20am
I don’t think that’s as impressive sounding as you think it is.
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Nobble Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/5/2025 9:15am Not the most powerful based on what? The Enduro-MTB lab test was badly done. I have yet to see any good lab data disproving the butt-dyno.
Nobble Added a reply to Giant Glory MY24 Broken Frames
7/3/2025 7:33pm I broke a 9 week old carbon Glory frame the same way all the way back in 2015. A Giant Rep told me “our bikes don’t break like that”. They made me pay for crash replacement. I sold the new frame and I swore I’d never give them another dime. They clearly haven’t changed much. It’s a shitty situation but...
Nobble Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/3/2025 4:54pm 1.5-2.5lbs-ish is pretty typical for aluminum vs carbon. An aluminum Sentinel frame is 9.9lb (medium) and the carbon one is 7.41lb (medium).
Nobble Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
7/3/2025 1:28pm I haven’t tried it personally, but I know a few people who swear by race fluids. The boiling point increase can be pretty dramatic. https://emotive.engineering/blogs/the-logbook/the-ultimate-track-day-an…
Nobble Added a reply to FOX Podium Inverted MTB Fork - Questions, Answers, Reviews
6/27/2025 3:02pm I’ve noticed that the suspension world seems to be heavily populated with people/companies that market themselves by shitting on others. This isn’t unique to MTB either, moto, offroad, etc all have it for some reason. Personally, being told that I need a product/service because something else is bad or other people are stupid makes me pretty skeptical. I’ve noticed that...
Nobble Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
6/27/2025 9:36am If you’re going to mix them it would be guide RSC levers on code calipers. The guide and the code levers share a lot of the same internals. It’s one rebuild kit. You might find that they get weird as the pads wear though. I think the Guide may have a smaller reservoir on the lever.
