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more photos of the prototype zeb. from the photog - Ella Conolly, Dan Booker and Jesse Melamed were the ones to run it here on the first practice day in Canazei. There is a cover on the left bottom side, maybe some new dials….new lowers and new bridge, so looks like a brand new fork not just some upgrade. It looks like all of them run it in 170mm travel

Okay big conspiracy time. The podium fork has been made for a long time. Fox was waiting for the traditional design of their forks to plateau in innovation and sales before “being the first”. It weighs so much on purpose because their next gen of the fork (which is already made and designed) will be bigger news than the second coming of Jesus. Then after that it will be even bigger with slight updates to the damper that work for USD forks even better, and EVEN LESS WEIGHT. But if they released the fork as perfect on day 1, what...

Those are the new M9220 XTR wheels on that beautiful Baum, so 29''.

sometimes.

couple of new Kona's listed on their website:

We spent so much time worrying about pedal kickback that we didn't stop to consider pedal kickforward

Seen this at Bikepark Winterberg on a Santa Cruz V10, never seen a V10 with this setup before.

You were probably eagerly waiting for another company to step up and enter the pedal/stem/bar market, here you go (some sarcasm detected): https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/leatt-enters-components-cat….

I’m a big proponent that steel hardtails should always have adjustable dropouts also so they can be run single speed.

Really, why would you use road mount on a mountain bike? I know there are adapters but PM is honestly the best mount there is...

That rear brake mount can go fuck itself though.

I've been riding for 15 years, but I was broke for the first 10 so I just rode whatever OEM tire came on my $500 hardtail 😜

Is this the linkage end?

Turner back in the FS game?!

I thought the same thing, but it definitely isn't a carbon/production model of the newest DH prototype they're on, the one with two chains. The #twochainz bike doesn't have the linkage under the BB, or the pivot at the bottom of the front end of the chainstay swingarm. The new bike seems to have the dogbone link going through the BB structure instead of around and under it.

If y'all ever want to test what real torsional flex feels like, just take a usd fork for a ride with the pinch bolts loose 😬 The different front axle configurations are interesting, iirc intend dropped the 20mm option because it didn't yield a significant gain.

Other Fox stanchion color options for the U.S. suburban market:

Hey all, learned a lot about bending and tube shapes in this discussion. To your point, clamping a tube is extremely effective at preventing rotation, i.e. the handlebar/stem interface or seatpost/seattube interface. No one makes hexagonal seatposts or handlebars, because bolts and clamps seem to work just fine. Not a lot of rotation if things are clamped down properly. I disagree with @TheSuspensionLabNZ (which doesn't happen very often, or ever?) that the axle of a USD is not experiencing significant torsional loads. I think the front wheel on any MTB fork is experiencing tremendous torsional loads because of one-sided disc...