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What you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.

You have yet to prove that you are capable of having an educated discussion about leverage ratios, progressivity, shock tunes and force gradients. The reason that is obvious, is that you are having the wrong discussion. The discussion you should having and should be working to educate yourself on is; What is the correct progression for me? Where do I want that progression to be occurring? What sort of shock or shock tune should be paired with said progression? What are current trends in the frame kinematic and design that are driving people to try cascade links? Why are bikes...

I wonder if it's anyone. If they'd planned for that GM pension money to be back in the bank to sign the rest long term last year, they might just not have had the room in the budget.

OP, nothing wrong with not liking a product, but you seem to be blind to the fact that you are kinda being an asshat. The CC link for the dreadnaught does seem to be an outlier to all their other links. I have Dreadnaught and would like the increase in travel but the big progression spike at the end of the stroke has kept me from purchasing the link. I run mine with the Ziggy link so that puts it at 47% in the final part of the stroke; that mixed with Hydraulic Bottom out from the 11.6 sounds not...

Fine, I'll bite. So I own a Forbidden Dreadnought and I also own the cascade link for the dreadnought. It is a well made product that feels and look like a quality part. It fit perfectly, and with a bit of help from Pinner machine shop, it worked great with my EXT. So props to cascade for the great part. 10/10. Is this part still on my bike? No. Would I recommend it to other dreadnought owners? Probably not. I actually feel like the link made the first 2/3rds of my travel amazing, like seriously the best I've ever felt...

Based on how you've behaved on this forum so far, it seems like you probably hounded them relentless until they blocked you as they mentioned, deleting your content when they did it. No one cares, you seem like a crazy person at this point with absolutely zero understanding of the problem and have pretty much erased any possibility of anyone taking you seriously. I have zero stake in this, but I've been on this forum long enough to be super annoyed when people like you come in with nonsense and crash the usual happy and relaxed vibe people have built...

@mcfadden999 and anyone else responding to him, guess what? there's an entire forum where you can start a new topic dedicated to one specific thing and you can develop that topic into the minutia it deserves. no more cascade review crap in this thread. hooray for babysitting grown adults in 2024!

My predictions on the Intense Factory Racing situation: -Dak to MS Intense -Gwin sticks with remnants of IFR and does race. Frame sponsor for renamed IFR team also gets rentals at Windrock. Gwin looks for a new number 2 (to replace Dak) and finds there are a lot of options…

We actually blocked you. Because of all the other crap not the thinking something is too progressive. You’re actually the only person we’ve ever blocked. I guess you get some sort of an award or something. Not sure it’s one I’d want…

Jesse part time DH and Troy Brosnan part time enduro ? Troy can deliver good results and its no as expensive as another rider.

Not sure if already known through podcasts etc but Martin Whiteley confirmed to manage Frameworks.

Tbh I'm disappointed you haven't made a coffee with a dual crown in the reflection to troll us all 😅

Wouldn't the forces into the frame be identical regardless of the link? If you land a 2m drop, the shock (and fork) are absorbing the force irrespective of the links that drive them. The damper may absorb (dissipate) slightly more force due to shaft speeds but as a whole the total force through the bike is the same regardless of links?

The CC links are designed to produce a higher leverage rate increase over stock (more progressive) which in my mind would result in less stress on the frame. The trade off would be more work is required of the damper due to higher shaft speeds, however since the bottom out events are less harsh with more progressive curve, the damper might be better off with cc link as well.

Dude either post what your got for rumors or say why you don’t like cascade. Did you buy a link and break your bike?

Stronger national-level racing might be the outcome of the shrinking WC field, but I doubt it was intentional. I'd bet someone at WB/Disco is actually quite displeased with the announcement of the Monster US Pro series, especially since Monster has the capital and incentive to broadcast the new series.

Seriously incredible news, and to hear this is title sponsored by a massive, somewhat outside the industry company is even better news! I’m stoked to see where they take it. I hope it turns into a multi event weekend style thing, with XC, DH and maybe some slalom/pump track so we can have a now a days NORBA!

I wonder if atherton racing will add any racers? Will Gee enter any world cups this year? Haven’t heard much since rampage.