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Saw the new Rocky Mountain bike in Santa Cruz today, looks like a vpp with the upper link pivot about halfway up and directly in front of the seat tube. Rear triangle looked compact and burly. Two tone paint job, no stickers, angles looked good.

Thats sick but I want that fork. To be honest if it worked at 160mm Id take it just for the advantage of having a perfectly aligned stem. I know, first world mtb problems.

Fox has bunch of the new 2024 38 part numbers on there site now. Dampers, comp and rebound tune assembly, etc. Anyone know when we should see complete forks released and in stock? Also, is this this 24' damper tune the same one Jordi is talking about in the Dialed videos? Thanks!

I'm specifically talking about twisting, i.e if the mount is partially twisted (off axis), the derailleur can't adjust to that (to my knowledge). The view that we will make it so strong it won't deform and twist, is inferior in my opinion to a design where you can simply twist it back into alignment.

First gen MTB AXS already has micro adjust. Even if they are using a stepper motor (would make sense from some standpoints), there was information when the first derailleurs came out that they are running the motor at 10.000 rpm, so I seriously doubt that gear position can't be tuned more finely than what is available. I think the main point was to make the system as fool proof as possible (set position and thus a mount and forget product). Judging by the comments here that creates more issues.

This has been a common wish from consumers about the prior AXS also. I believe that Sram is using a stepper motor with a hardware fixed movement distance for each shift. Per gear micro adjust would require a different motor.

To be fair, a little bit of organisation is all that's required like it was just a couple of years ago, whereby you always keep a spare a hanger at home or bring it on a trip, and it's pretty rare to damage one anyways.

Privateer are budget frames, not sure anyone on a privateer is going to spend 1-2k on electronic shifting… tbh, you’d have to be mad to regardless of budget

I'm not surprised, it's definitely *very* sensitive to alignment (and thus proper torque) issues. I'd bet SRAM is quietly working to improve that since getting bike manufacturers to improve tolerances seems unlikely... /derail

My 2 mechanic mates vouch for this, also a few of the frames aren't aligned perfectly out of the molds due to paint the thread tapping and hub facing not being perfect, so the alignment can be slightly off, and theres no quick fix, as you can just bend the hanger to align things anymore.

A friend at the shop I used to work at says they're getting Transmission problems all the time (mostly imprecise setup and some have had the mount start 'chewing' into the frame, but no broken stays as far as I know). Seems like it's generally better suited to a high standard of frame quality and very careful setup, two things not typically associated with most mountain bikes and their riders

Careful man. Unless you’re trying to trigger all the gearbox zealots on purpose…

Remember when everyone was yelling about how we were gonna see a ton of broken chainstays due to direct mount? I haven't seen a single instance; have any of y'all? Or even heard of one?

Neat, hadn't seen that before. UDH makes the concept more practical, since it standardizes position of the derailleur relative to the axle. Forward we regress!

Perhaps, but it is really nice to be able to just go into a shop and buy a UDH when it gets damaged rather than having to order frame specific hanger.

All the marketing buzzwords, but very little actual information.

Pretty sure that's still Horst. Just the chainstay pivot isn't completely inline at the end of the CS, its just been moved a little up.

This looks pretty good, but I'm left wondering how many people can stand on it?