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Madonna V3 just dropped, looks rad! Like the V2 offers lots of adjustability. https://raawmtb.com/en-us/pages/madonna-v3

Just a norco sight from his norco days that has crestline branding and his current parts 👍

Norco.

screenshot from Blenki/Cascades Story. I don‘t know if it already has seen daylight before?

Unless the 2019 is different(I found 16 and 21 Banshee), doesn’t look the same leverage to me. But below the frameworks(3rd image), is the trek session, and the leverage is almost exactly the same. 3.4 down to 2.4

Am I completely off base thinking the frameworks bike is very similar to the 29'er Banshee legend in terms of geo and leverage ratio? I'm biased as it's my personal bike but the more I look the more I think the banshee was ahead of the curve in 2019 when it got released.

Neko's bike is super interesting. REALLY long chainstays across all sizes, and a pretty high antisquat value. I remember in his early test videos, he settled for a low pivot/mid pivot bike with more rearward axle path, and used an ochain instead of an idler pulley to overcome the pedal kickback from the rearward axle path. So if you buy a Frameworks, maybe budget an extra few hundred dollars for an Ochain. The bike also has a very low BB for a long wheelbase/long travel bike, so don't forget to buy a good bashguard or three.

Pole uses a fully rotated shock with a 90° yoke on both ends BTW.

Possibly better knee clearance or a slimmer rocker by mounting with resi on the bottom. has to have some kind of bearing on the tiny yoke.

xfusion has a new high-volume air shock - https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/xfusion-shox-announces-all-…

https://www.emtb-news.de/news/specialized-kenevo-sl2-2024/ Updated motor (SL1.2 with 50Nm) and new colors, nothing really new at the end.

you can get the r2ct with several tunes already?

Performance, price, availability, service, and even the used market. I had push on an offering v1, sb130, mullet Bronson, enduro, scout, offering v2, and SJ Evo. On all of those bikes I also tried X2, prev ver SD air, dhx and dhx2. Once the new SD coil came out I had it on a sentinel, SJ evo, and now forbidden Druid v2. Any time I get a new bike or new suspension component I take my time setting it up, different springs, and bracketing on the same trail. If I can, I bring multiple shocks to the trail and swap...

just because you have just 4 actual click to choose from doesn't make all the clicks on fox, cane creek or push useless, or not working. regardless new V10.8 just released

There is no fancy engineering or anything special about a Push shock really besides it just being well made and some nice CNC work. The secret sauce is in the fact that it is basically custom tuned for the bike and rider. At the end of the day, without the tuning, the RS SD and the Push are almost the same. I do think there is scope for push to do a simpler shock that is still tuned to the rider and bike, that would be a better solution to the majority of riders. Whether Push can make that work...

Not gonna sit here and wax poetic about all of RS product range, but I do agree the SD Ult coil is a fabulous shock. Been absolutely bomber on my status and feels like the dials make real usable /noticeable changes

Looking at your location I find it quite fitting that you're discussing a version of something that doesn't require batteries.

just out of curiosity, i poked around trek's website, all their hardtails under $1500 are spec'd with shimano. maybe sram will stop focusing on budget/low end oem business?

This? More pics here: https://nsmb.com/articles/lost-in-transmission/ Second pic shows the patent drawing w/ cable guide "11"

The parent I saw was most certainly designed to hold a shifter cable. I can't say which bike but the the bike I saw with AXS that was being powered by the bike battery used a little block that clipped in place of the battery and a small wire ran from it into the shifter cable hole in the chainstay with a little rubber grommet.