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BOOM!!! Called it. Well...3 out of 4 Sick team. And having Olly Morris on board providing the coaching and management side of things will be great as well.

Childhood impure thoughts unlocked unexpectedly.

Has anyone seen this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO6DUSKhbRU It's a whole new hub design that seems to have a lot of merits.

I am going to spell it out for everyone here that has less experience with Trolls. Someone is purposefully saying silly things to rile you up, just ignore it. Do not reply. Not even a little bit. Just let the stupid comment die in the wind. Then it wont be fun for them anymore and maybe, if we are lucky, we can move on with our lives

Yeah its that basic stuff that makes the most difference and has more room for gains. The window of different damping tunes to cover every rider is much smaller than people think, especially for forks! So that should be taken care of early in the season and the rest of the time only needs to be a few clicks of damping here and there. The hierachy of set up priorities, with diminishing returns from each step would be - Tyre pressure Servicing/Friction Spring rate Volume spacers damping clickers internal valving At least at a race - it is possible someone...

The underrated part of suspension tuning is riders get confident to what they feel use to. Case in point, every WC racer on Fox forks. When your hitting corners as hard as they are, you just want it to feel the same as it did previously, when you didn't die. But from a race/engineering standpoint, Fox forks incredible reliance on spring force and lack of damping is objectively worse than Ohlins/Rock Shox, but being very strong and getting use to it, you can be just as fast through rider adaption. Now for these riders to swap they products feel worse/not...

Yeah pretty much. You have a baseline setting and its tweaked for each track, and since they race the tracks each year pretty much they know a very solid starting setup (obviously conditions change that). My point was more about how, from an engineering stand point Fox products use a lot more spring force for support than their competitors (Ohlins generally are the most damped products from stock, with Rockshox in the middle) But once you get used to a setup, you just run that. You do major swaps between season (notice how most riders stick to the same frame...

Rebuilds and service for sponsored riders are the reason most of the vendors are there. Fox, RS/Sram, DT Swiss, etc.

If you reset your pistons, pad retract is always relative to the braking surface so you have the same pad clearance regardless of rotor thickness. Increasing rotor thickness will only impact the clearance/dead stroke if you don’t reset the pistons, but over time as your pads wear it will work its way to the same spot.

I’d agree- dyno doesn’t always tell the full story. It’s an extremely useful tool but you must do blind ride testing as well. MTB suspension testing is incredibly difficult and frustrating from my experience.

Agreed, I can definitely feel a difference in the HSC settings on my 38. Too little and the front end will feel more knifey and oversteer in hard cornering. Too much HSC and the front end doesn't settle and kind of understeers in hard cornering/ heavy load situations. The point about rebound is moot IMO. My 38 even has the low rebound "traction tune" and I run it close to fully open. I have a factory 34 on a different bike, rebound is nearly fully open. I had a coil 40 on my old Glory, and I ran the rebound...

It's simply the old Blur 2018-2021.