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Great question. I think that most stock forks have an underdamped compression shim stack for aggressive riders, so those reviewers are likely trying to get more support out of the fork in high shaft speed scenarios, and the only option (without a re-tune) is to add more air pressure, or tokens, or both. Cranking the compression knobs on a fork with too light of a compression tune at the shimstack essentially makes for a digressive fork tune- it gives you high damping force on LSC, high damping force on mid-speed (which is the shaft speed that an average HSC knob...

Pretty much yes - forks for a long time typically have very little compression damping, i guess to be conservative so its harder to screw up. But things like friction and sub optimal spring curves mean adding damping feels worse so people back it out. That makes people think comprrssion damping is bad but really the root cause is somewhere else The vorsprung telum manual has some great lines about the adjustment range of most stock gear

V+R Racing is just two mere peasants (well, a nurse and a medical device engineer). When we started out in 2019 the two of us were just buying DH bikes for junior riders who needed them. Many seasons and many riders later, we had two world cup DH juniors in '25 with one finishing second overall and the other finishing 10th overall. We obviously can't afford our own team, but we can still be a hat/helmet sponsor. I'm still driving my 16 year old car - it just comes down to priorities for us. And we're proof it doesn't have...

Maybe you could pay for it in two separate installments

RE: air only - Total Air Cartridges were a thing for Judy's and the like BITD. Air spring/damper combo to replace the elastomers and failure prone oil cartridge with a failure prone all air setup. MRP owns the IP now I believe.

Park makes one that has 4mm, 5mm, and a T-25. Pedros has made a 3-way with all Torx heads.

Just doing my part of adding to the rumors 🍿 Dak won’t tell me anything for the record. But I’m surprised more people aren’t talking about that brand that also makes goggles as a potential team. They’ve got two spots that I know of open going into next year I’d love to see him on Frameworks, just feels right. We swapped bikes in Whistler this summer for half a lap when I was riding the Frameworks, and there were a lot of similarities geo wise between the bikes–tall stack, long rear end, short axle to crown. Also minimal spring rate...

Anyone know if Angel is staying on at FW? If not then It would be more plausible for Dak. I would love to see Dak on big team so gets all the support but he is certainly more of a small team guy. Would be cool to see what Dak could on Specailized or Canyon or Commencal but FW or Intense or Norco would be fitting.

I’ve been surprised for awhile there’s not a crowdfunded racing team. Put a bunch of fan fave riders on a fan fave team and watch magic happen like it did when Moir, Dean Lucas, and Charlie Harrison were together on Intense. Would pitch in a few hundred bucks for Frameworks or Gwin Racing to pick up Dak. Surely there’s a bunch of folks willing to do similar. Could do it under the auspices of Vital Racing

Rough day but thankfully they are all safe.

At US Nationals, everyone was squatting in tents all over the mountain, so none of us had anything to do when not practicing. So you literally hung with the team guys & mechanics in the pits out of the way & listened to stories. Kovachi Wheels used to be at all Nationals & John Kovachi was simply amazing. He'd spend every minute of every day just lacing up wheel after wheel & his crew of workers/racers were infectious too. Brent Ratelle & all their "slalom" specialists (BMX pros mostly) introduced me to Sun Wheels. That crew made racing possible for...

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