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They must have hired the Lewis engineering team.

I feel Frameworks, the team and company, are doing quite well at the moment. Do some math on how many frames they have sold, at a premium price, and it's a pretty big number in terms of cash flow for a very small company. They don't even pay to paint the frames, raw is popular! -They don't have issues with Asian tariffs like most of the bike industry currently does (carbon rear end from TW being the exception). -The team title sponsor (5DEV) is in the same position. -The Frameworks brand is currently known world wide with very little (if...

So the rest of us don’t have to search:

not worth the extra $200? ( first i'd love to know where in the world we have all that price difference, a Maven Silver in NZ is the same as V4 braided ), but even if it was to be 200$ they're worth it just for the quality, let alone the control they've got. And i still believe when on braided with a nice thick rotor and proper bleed they feel everything but vague. Just checking them side by side, the quality and finish are nowhere near, especially the caliper is in another world, then working on them you see...

From my time on purples - they were pretty quiet. Just took a touch more time to warm up to full power. Definitely not loud like metalic pads.

Sorry for using the other site here -edit I know they have been posted before

It's honestly refreshing to see a review talk about the potential short comings of longer rear ends, even if he didn't call it out specifically. That Comencal he was on had a 1.82 FC RC ratio, not really that out of the ordinary, but he noticed the ammount of weight it was putting on the front wheel for him and his riding style. That's why I'm generally against the idea of "proportional stays", because it's only accounting for a single factor, static weight distribution. I really hope the online crowds stop pushing for them like they are the only way...

Matt Beers on riding a bike with a longer rear center: “Putting the bike into steep, switchbacks takes some commitment to trust the front wheel won’t tuck underneath you. It’s not the most inviting if you’re not on your A-game and certainly not how I expected a 170 mm-travel enduro bike to respond in those scenarios. With that said, I do ride further forward on the bike than most. Compared to a ganglier rider, like Amaury Pierron, he tends to ride with his hips lower and further back over the saddle. I found myself mimicking his riding style on this...

I’d like to see standardized mounting for e bike batteries so that I just buy the size I want rather than have the manufacturer choose my size for me. That way I can ditch my 625wh plus range extender and just pop in a 1000wh (or larger).

New levers from Hope, or something custom? Pic stolen from the other site...

You just adjust your technique. If you rode exclusively high pivots for a while, then hopped on a more traditional design, it would immediately feel very strange the other way too.