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I'm pretty sure my 170 Zeb has only hit 170 once and I had the sore elbows to prove it for a week after that one. Gotta get on those push ups....

You guys are having trouble bottoming out a Zebb? Weird… Oh wait! I just remembered: I’m a 100 kg American fat body.

@ebruner thank you for the explanation/science lesson! 🙂 That both explains and significantly complicates the whole thing at the same time 🙈 Basically it’s not as straightforward as I initially thought…

Latest bikerumour podcast with Chris Canfield is pretty interesting. Particularly the discussion towards the end which centres on his new layouts: https://bikerumor.com/podcast-086-chris-canfield-explains-multi-link-su… I *think* this is the related CF3 pending patent with the x3 selectable axle paths: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20210380195A1/en?inventor=Christoph…

The fun thing with patent law, at least in the US, is you can patent anything if you are specific enough. For example DW link and Horst link are conceptually identical. DW link is pretty much a Horst link set up where the lower link is super short instead of being the entire chainstay. If the Horst link patent had been written in a more broad manner it’s likely DW would never have been patentable. So it will be interesting to see how this Norco one plays out. It would be easy to do a Santa Cruz link set where...

We know from that article that the new bike uses both the flip-chip at the shock mount and a different dogbone link to change the leverage curve, so I think it's very plausible they can keep it similar before the sag point while changing the behavior after it. That would be unique compared to every other progression-adjustment system I can think of right now, and could be patented.

Likely end of the year or early next year. That's the info I was given.

Michelin to bring back the DH16 (from Mondraker DH proto bikecheck on BikeRumor)

Push has used a pneumatic bump stop in their coil fork conversion kit for while, so I wouldn't be at all surprised it this fork used that same tech. That said, I'd agree those look like bleed ports.

Generally more progressive for a given travel amount results in higher leverage ratio at the sag point so higher spring rate or pressure to be at that sag point. This is because wheel travel is the integral of leverage ratio. If you decrease it in one spot you have to increase it in another otherwise there is a travel reduction.

Shocks are often tuned off of average leverage ratio so as long as travel remains the same then general tuning would still be accurate. If tune is done for a specific spot in travel then that's out the window as soon as leverage curve changes. Damping force as felt at the wheel is inversely proportional to leverage ratio squared for anyone who's curious. As for spring rate or shock pressure, increasing progression while travel remains fixed generally results in a higher leverage ratio at the sag point. So to keep the same sag point you'd need to increase spring rate/pressure...

From the other site, interviewing the Norco design team on the new proto downhill bike. Thought I'd share this bit about a patent for a link that adjusts progression without affecting anything else? Don't get how this is possible, but they're smarter than me so who knows? "We’ve filed two patents based on the suspension layout and kinematic adjustment designed into the new DH race bike... The second patent applies to the method of leverage curve progression adjustment we’ve designed into the bike which allows us to alter the level of support from the rear suspension in isolation without needing...

it just needs to be pending, not a patent granted, which would allow for years of development progress ahead of others. By the time others were able capitalize, we would be on the 7 bar linkages, with low pivots....

With the existing post mount standard, brakes are at a point where more line pressure and or bigger pistons and pads will necessitate things like this. Maintaining good stiffness and accessing the post bolts fight each other when combined with all that. I’m not a fan of all the random standards, especially considering they aren’t well adhered to (iscg is the worst), but wider post mounts wouldn’t be the worst thing.

Is that an issue? when swapping pads you should re-surface the rotor a tiny bit anyway, so you have to remove the wheel anyway? I've never thought about it, but i'd prefer a solid brake than the option of sliding in pads from the top

Maybe not big news but new damper are coming, they make good bikes at great prices. https://www.mdebikes.com/damper-coming-soon/?lang=it

Are we gonna talk about the pads being bottom-loaded or is that not thing people care about?

Massive price drops coming our way?

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