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Great question. I don't know yet. I'm going to ride the fork when it gets back without any additional info, and then follow up with Push to get the details. Whenever possible, I try to know less during a product test so I can hopefully avoid confirmation bias.

From all the interviews I’ve seen everyone seemed relieved that the event was canceled.

I mean there's no elite/juniors distinction at Hardline and he straight up won in Wales.

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I wonder (and I'm just thinking out loud) if there is a chance that two wildly different places in the world might have different soil conditions that are affected by weather differently?

Downtime doing live shows at Maydena. Aaron sounds like he’s having a great time. Should be another episode upcoming with Rob and Elliot that was taped last night.

Better in engineering terms != better in practical terms. There's a lot of people out there with heel rub on 148 frames. I also don't really like the idea of my $400 electronic derailleur being any further outboard than it already is. Sure, 157 is better on paper, but in the real world, 148 works fine for everyone from beginners all the way up to world cup pros.

Really sad to hear about Mille. I love watching her ride, she can get pretty sketchy when she's pushing the speed, but she always looks so calm and comfortable on the jumps and things. Her and Lou always seem to have so much fun riding together in videos and it really gets me excited to ride. I was so stoked to see their POVs together like they did at world cups. All the best to her! I did see Luca pop up finally in clips from Troy and in his own instagram stories. I'm wondering if he got there a...

I guess the question is how picky are you? No disrespect intended, but I think this forum is an assembly of the nitpickiest nitpickers in the world when it comes to brake lever feel and power. The new XT and XTR brakes are totally adequate for mountain biking and ebikes, and if you need more power, you can pair them with a big thick rotor (like a 220mm/2.0mm SRAM HS2). However, they are less powerful than some of their newest competitors* (Maven Ultimates, TRP DHR EVO, Hope Tech4 V4, etc), and the lever feel is less crisp than the classic...

It's less that they want a bike that works with x fork, and more that bikes with x travel work best for x style of riding. While there is now a lot more cross over in bike capabilities than there used to be, especially in the 130-160 mm rear travel area, there is good reason to design bespoke frames for each category. A lot of modular frames boil down to "we designed a bike with 160mm of rear travel, and the strength / weight that a bike like that needs, but you can use these other parts to reduce the...

Remy is on Vorsprung suspension. He will pretty much be the R&D rider behind developing a Vorsprung fork. Awesome stuff I reckon'. Also that rig is a absolute stunner.

It would be a total tragedy because we're finally in this utopia where you can have a quiver with totally mixed genre mtbs and be able to grab a wheel from any one in a pinch. (RaceFace or Hope hubs for 20mm conversion, tons of DH bikes now 148). I really don't plan to give that up even if the gains are more than marginal. At the end of the day it's all about no missed rides for me.

Manitou has selected this particular paint scheme to make it so German U-boats will be unable to accurately estimate Manitou riders' speed and heading.

I really wished they had launched this straight faced on April 1st. It's too bad they aren't European or they may have unironically launched in on April 1st as so many European companies did before them.

Um... You seem a bit confused. At bottom-out the air pressure in the lowers increases and would push air OUT past the wiper seals. If that happened, the air might want to be pulled into the lowers at top-out. As for pulling air, dust wipers are a double lip seal with a preloaded (spring) lip acting either way of stanchion travel. So even if the lowers tried to push the air past the upper (visible) lip, the inner one acting the other way gets additionally preloaded by the increased internal pressure, making the seal even better. And it's become WELL...

Something 5Dev shared with me last week that I thought was neat—steel spindles that add around 500g low and central on the bike. They developed them last year with Neko/Frameworks as a clean/simple way to add weight to bikes instead of just slapping a chunk of lead to the bb. Only two options which limits compatibility, but a neat idea nonetheless. Deets - https://www.5dev.com/products/heavy-metal-downhill-spindles?variant=464… - 139mm = 616g - 145mm = 649g - Made from 17-4 stainless steel in San Diego - $199.99, or $100 up-charge with any 5Dev crankset order

Ease of use and less SKUs. An air shock or fork adapts to everything from an XS to an XL rider with a shock pump by the average user. Changing coils is more involved, requires a workshop for the fork at least, different sizes come with different springs so you have 4 or 5 SKUs. And it's heavier. And more expensive as you have to buy another spring. Air is free.