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Radic, then Intend I'd say Maven and Saint are similar amounts of deadstroke but power ramps up faster on Mavens, so you get more power for a shorter distance.

What advantage is there to wetting the fork in a certain travel range?

I mentioned spoke clearance with the Intends earlier, this kindof shows it it’s a non issue with standard steel spokes, but using anything with a larger diameter than normal and you risk hitting the caliper. It’s a beefy boi at 43mm wide. It’s 16mm from pad cutout to the outside towards the wheel. Most others I measured were 38ish total and 12-14mm from pad cutout I ran several wheels and had no issue except for the HAWK30X that are 4.5mm at the base. They just barely hit.

I'll pre-empt the inevitable butthurt about the below by saying that all of these options are good. They are all powerful, all reasonably easy enough to work on, and all (mostly) consistent. I mainly say that because people adore Saints and I found them to be the weaker in almost every category compared to others, but still good. I'd also caveat that "power" is somewhat misunderstood IMO. Most people don't have the means to measure overall, total available power, rather they base it on how the brakes feel. A brake like the Maximas may have a ton of overall power...

I mean I’d never bother touching Sram stuff if I had Trickstuff but props to you for doing some experiments

Just do it

Ah ha, yes. The april fool that wasn’t funny and was actually a pretty good update of their product. So now they’ve decided to sell it

norco range and sight vlt high pivot e-bikes are live https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/norco-launches-all-new-high… ohlins rxf 34 too https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/ohlins-racing-introduces-ne… and sdg tellis v2 dropper 55 to 230mm drop https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/first-look-sdg-tellis-v2-dropper-seat… (it's a BIG week of new stuffz : )

What a depressing set of comments today. Biking is a hobby, people can enjoy it as they wish. Get over yourselves and let people be happy. Complaints about other peoples opinions are not tech rumors.

Not all pros are anal and picky about their setup and just ride what they get. They are simply fast. Some need to tinker to hell and back. It's the same with average riders, some thinker and some just ride. There is no sense to bemoan people that take a different approach to riding. As long as they articulate their feelings and can defend them rationally, it's all good in my book. Same goes for the Yeti vs. Specialized choice, if you can defend the choice of the Yeti by saying "I want what I want" it's much better than...

DAMPER

Socky Mountain

In a world of diaper bikes, be a norco. Rad industrial aluminum protos fully exposed in the wild.