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Arguing about surrons and surron demographics on the MTB tech rumors thread. Sick. I wonder if SRAM considered 6 pistons when working on the Mavens. Maybe after the 1000th piston massage, some SRAM tech was like maybe we should just add 2 more pistons.

Don’t hate the tool. Hate the “tool.” Utilized in the proper context, they are loads of fun. It’s unfortunately too easy to act the fool on one.

You'd be surprised. The Surrons around here are decked out in Fox factory, EXT, etc suspension, anodized MTB parts, TRP DHRs, etc. The overlap in customers is significant.

people geek out over their e-motos just like we do about mountain bikes.

I burnish bushings in my struts so I'm interested in this topic, but we're really getting in the weeds here. Let's continue this discussion here: vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/fork-friction-burnishing-chassis-alignment-etc

Oliver is a smart guy! He made my original handle which I still use, as well as my steerer pressing gear. I think that new design just uses very fine machining on the surface to gradually draw it through the bushing and wouldn't be removing any material. It's probably a lot better than the technique of trying to mash an oversized tool through the bushing with brute force as I know for a fact that can tear the material away from the steel backing. So if you need an extra large burnishing tool this is possibly a good way to...

Most current lyriks and Zeb's seem to have a pretty good tolerance where everything is nicely aligned and don't bind but with minimal clearance. So while I prefer slightly more clearance, I wouldn't call them tight and it's probably a combination of forks sitting around for a while and getting dry/sticky that makes them feel less than ideal. It's interesting, it often feels like Fox forks have 4 bushings with fractionally different sizes, but maybe the average clearance is larger so combined with the thick oil used in the spring leg (and lots of oil in the damper side) it...

That last sentence seems important…

I don’t think you get it Dave. We are going to revolutionize fork manufacturing on this forum without ever having visited a factory or even talking to a designer or engineer about the myriad of factors that affect the design and manufacture of said forks.

takes about a minute for both legs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlCWHTxueaY min 1:00 to about 2:00, a capable engineer should be able to automate this step with a robot...

Can you specify? I don’t know what intend does. But yeah I believe RS is making thousands of forks per day (a lot of volume comes from the lower end stuff you guys don’t think much about- eg Judy). Or at least was during the Covid peak. Tact time is a real issue. I’d worry about those rotating burnish tools scraping/burning material off the bushings. Fill the lower leg with bushing dust. The factory sizing method is different and that is what is tested and validated by engineering team. YMMV. One longevity trick is to wash your lowers when you...

RS probably flows 5x more free product to bros than Intend sells in a year. Scale not even on the same planet.

Simple answer, volume... Look at how many forks Rock Shox has as OEM spec.. Their lowest volume high end fork is still more units than Intend does in a year..

I would be surprised if your typical Taiwanese worker doesn't fully assemble the fork in the same time as it takes to manually burnish the bushings.

+0.15mm oversize would take some serious time and a lot of elbow grease to make I through the bushing that is in typical size range. I use + 0.1mm head on my boxxer, the lowers weren't too bad from the factory, but I still got decent workout from it don't it in the sunny afternoon lol. I don't think I would be even able to start the burnishing process with +0.15

Was this mentioned here? SR Suntour are working with Rogue Racing to develop an electronically actuated shock. Pictures are from the pink website. Apparently the actuator is controlled by a software that reads the terrains and it acts on the normal compression circuit. The shock can be locked out too.

That is the Shimano STEPS eBike only Di2 derailleur, been around for quite a while but not much media on it

Found on REI's website - available 5/28 - is this a new XT Di2? https://www.rei.com/product/215401/shimano-deore-xt-12-speed-rear-derai…

I honestly think Rockshox doesn't get enough credit for their attention to friction - everyone loves to talk about the latest dampers but those come well after the friction and the spring in terms of what actually matters. I noticed things like increasing the bushing length and carefully choosing bath oil viscosity (not too thick in most forks, but the short travel skinny leg forks get heavier oil) along with good alignment and clearances in the new forks. Fox still use very short bushings in all their models, plus I'm positive the oil channels they added in the lowers do...