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lol they obviously drew a lot of inspiration from Manitou!

It was released few weeks ago.

Full Sheep Ahead?

Furious Sheep Ahead!

Sag isn't any more nonsense that the manufacturer's recommended pressure. Pick one as a starting point and tune from there. Document the changes and how they feel. Only change one thing at a time. It's a basic troubleshooting process and it's more important to be able to track changes and correlate those to the results than where your starting point was.

Using sag as a defining characteristic of your suspension is just absolute nonsense as far as I'm concerned. How your bike responds to both terrain and your inputs is what ultimately matters, and it depends SO MUCH on how your air spring behaves, and how your damper behaves, and how your spring and your damper are interacting, and where you want the dynamic ride height of your bike to be, and how you want it to bias front to rear in turns, and how much travel you want to be pushing into/how much you want it to push back with...

That’s another misnomer for me, this concept that you should be using all of the travel on your fork no matter what trail you ride? I mean surely if you ride a relatively smooth trail and only use 120mm of your 160mm, why should that mean that you should soften your suspension to use all of the travel instead of maybe you only need 120mm of travel for that trail? I mean it’s not about how much travel you use, it’s about how the suspension is working for you, or am I just completely confused here?

I'll eyeball sag the first time I put air in a new fork, but other than that I really only use the O-ring to measure bottom out. Rear shock sag measurements are a frequent reference point for me, but I agree with other comments that fork sag measurements seem to be pretty inconsistent and thus not that helpful. My ideal fork sag is "not much."

measure fork sag 3 times in 3 minutes and you will get 3 different measurements. It's a reference point at best, but the best reference of all is a digital shock pump cut the thing off, trust me, it will eliminate a form of anxiety from your life.

Losing the front becomes a self fulfiling prophesy. You wash the front, so lose confidence, so start hanging off the back, so lose grip......so wash the front.

SX Transmission here we come!

This is tech rumors not team rumors

Is this fork compatible with slow riders?

Street price in Germany is about 133€ compared to RRP 261€. Workshop time shouldn‘t be too bad since its a easy swap during service, which you need to do anyway at some point. A 250*7x shock is a DH shock most of the time. If you need special products you sometimes have to go a special way, I would say.

I hope sram replaces the "Black Box" moniker used on all their prototype or unreleased stuff with "Don't post to Vital".

Those are some pretty well composed and lit "spy shots"

File the “backsweep” topic right next to the “should your handlebars be the same height as your seat when it’s fully extended” topic. These are not tech rumors. These are subjective, personal preference, opinions based on anecdotal evidence. Enough.

Uh oh, we're verging on "Backsweep Rumors and Innovation."

If my vest had sleeves, it would be my jacket.... So no 130 trail bike with a 63 HA stock