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Sorry about the potato shot screen grabs! Loics new specialized shock position seems a lot higher apart from that Ill leave it up to the masses

My Vivid has HBO but no matter the settings, nor how big the huck to flat that almost explode my ankles, the last 5mm is complete unobtainium. I wouldn't think its the HBO, but I can hit the same spot at 29% sag and 40% sag plus max to least compression set. HBO also set to max and min too. A SDU without HBO and a X2 could use all 65mm stroke though, so the only thing I can guess is it's the HBO.

fox x2 by....... Michael Bay

After that many years and issues on the same platform, it would have been a good time to rename the Float X2 to Float X3 to try to differentiate it from the unreliable last version 😅

I thought this comment, from the Escape Collective's Cape Epic coverage, was interesting and wonder how it stacks uo against Fox Neo... " A few riders using Flight Attendant had buttons in highly convenient locations and noted the need to be able to quickly unlock the suspension when a smaller bump or rut was coming up as the system, as good as it is, seemingly cannot react quickly enough for their needs. "

Battery is side loading, so hopefully there'll be no Trek like issues with it. Swat is at the top. 111nm is only for SWorks apparently and the rest are 101. Although it's just a firmware update. ... so I'm reliably informed.

5000ft vertical in trail mode on my Vala, I don’t want or need to zoom round with 100nm, quite happy with my dialled down 60, still able to put in plenty of effort. E-bikes have predictably become an arms race for power/torque.

If the battery is removable, as it will aparently be the case, a smaller, lighter option should be offered. It's like, options are good, right? Most of my rides are under two hours, a smaller battery is a "cheap" way to save 1kg to 1.5kg...

The 840wh battery just gave a huge middle finger to the recent trend that were pigeon holed into 600wh (looking at you, Vala 👀)

confirmation in the media that Yamaha have purchased the Brose ebike division

Can confirm that this is not the Forbidden ebike...

A Domain won‘t exist in a Forbidden + bike looks „wrong“ to say the least. The CS-BB region looks wrong if you know what I mean 😉.

Surely heat from the shock, the energy from bushing friction would be magnitudes less than the energy being absorbed and released as heat by the damper. If Vital review the new Scott DH bike could you please put a thermometer in there on a run.

if you have or know anyone who has a new ransom, feel the shock bolts on the downtube after a run. they're hot.

Air shocks aside, the temp of the shock doesn’t really tell you anything if you don’t know the tune and what it has just done. It’s a simple conservation of energy equation. The heat generated by the damper is the work it has done to absorb impacts.

Coil shocks run at upto 55°c during DH runs, airshocks can run quite a bit hotter depending on the design. Dyno testing shocks you should run a warm up cycle to heat the shock to at least 40°c before measuring the damping as that's close to operating temperature.

took a thermal cam thingy to windrock for some trackside DH bike bbq

so why did they build this?

Us bike nerds notice when there's a new color bolt on a stem. Someone definitely would have noticed Nino and Filippo winning Cape Epic on 32" wheels. They are easy to spot.