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we getting square stanchions next!

More like Cannondale engineer.

I thought it was the opposite of that the softer the setting the more progressive it is.

It's a data point but I feel like every German review, is biased towards German products. Tires, motors, suspension, cars, etc. Hey, maybe they are just better. What is true is that eventually the manufacturing grease goes away and Avinox motors will all rattle to some extend or another just due to their design, just like the EP801s & Bosch Gen4 before them rattled.

Trying to focus this one the thread topic on hand, I'm willing to bet that when SC updates the Nomad and Megatower next year, they go 4-bar also. I have a Vala, a Nomad 6, and a Heckler SL, and strongly prefer the Vala kinematics overall. As mentioned above, it reduces anti-squat and anti-rise to a better level, which pay dividends in reduced pedal feedback when riding hard. The VPP design is nice for making a poppy, energetic platform, so it probably has a place on their shorter travel bikes, but I think on their longer travel enduro/freeride bikes, their...

With the current VPP system, they can’t get the anti-squat to where they want it, based on the V10 project. The shock can’t be moved forward enough b/c the motor gets in the way. If you look at the current Bronson/Hightower, that is why the shock is mounted further in the frame. They are moving the VPP towards Horst link numbers anyway, so I don’t see too many downsides of the Vala/Bullit moving to a Horst.

But this is just plain incorrect. The simplest way I can explain it to you is this. Roll from a 10m hill down, you convert the gravitational potential energy into momentum, that energy is fixed. If you have 29" or 26" wheel do don't get more or less energy from rolling down the hill. Now once you have gained momentum, you hit the flat and start braking, converting this momentum into primarily heat via braking. Since a 29 and 26 wheel have gained exactly the same amount of energy going down, to come to a stop they must require exactly...

Force is not energy as you are alluding (by saying more force means more energy). Force over distance is energy. A larger wheel rotates more slowly (in RPM), so the same sized rotor on a bigger wheel will make less rotations covering the same distance. The force is increased because the braking path of the pad traveling over the rotor decreases.

One of us hasn't understood what Cascade said, and I'm inclined to think its you. The formula he wrote out clearly states In the end the radius of the wheel is not included in the energy equation. The larger wheel doesn't require more energy than a small one to brake. The reason it requires more force at the caliper is leverages, but that doesn't mean more energy overall. Therefore it doesn't produce more heat, as the energy is the same.

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.

2026 Giant Reign Advanced 560WH / 800W peak power / 48V system / Yamaha 100NM motor / built in TPMS

Super fun sitting down with Jeff and Spomer to discuss the economics of making and selling bikes. Thanks for the invite, and hope the rest of y'all enjoy our various musings, disagreements, and observations.

Pretty sure if that part of the stanchion is out in the open air you've got bigger problems than aerodynamics...

seat twob?

Idk what to call that lol. On a bright side because they took the pivots off of the seat tube there is nothing to interfere with dropper insertion. Looks like it should be able to clear 200+mm droppers without an issue. Also couldnt tell from Priority's instagram post but it looks like its mullet as well

Yeah, I rarely ride acoustic bikes these days but when I do the playfulness and jumping/bunny hopping ability is miles better. And I'm a bad jumper so a lighter bike improves my jumping/manual/bunny hop abilities a lot. On a 25 kg bike it feels very exhausting getting it to do anything different than straightlining stuff and staying calm. I think riding a heavy bike well requires the rider to be physically strong and be a very good rider.

I think @carlinojoevideo put it really well comparing the two setups, especially since he’s tested with data acquisition. I’ll add my long-winded reply just based on feel. My recent experience was comparing a smashpot Mezzer to an Avy hybrid 38 on the same bike. The Mezzer had a higher spring rate and is less damped when compared to my 38 setup. Obviously different forks and dampers, so not a perfect comparisons. First thing to note is setup, I run a higher static bar height with the the 38, which makes sense given the increased static sag. Dynamic I’d guess they...

I don't think it's a 'vent'. Would mist the rotor with oil! Possibly additional volume that you can tune by swapping out those 'things'. Looks like two bolts to remove it.

No one needs any of these bikes, but if they make riding more interesting or fun I'm all for it. The Checkout isn't for me (at least right now) but for folks who are doing really long bikepacking trips/races it's probably awesome. It's noteworthy to me that a lot of the objections being posted mirror those from when suspension was first introduced to MTBs...

Gravel bikes has become too wide of a category of bikes, what we need is subcategories! The downgravel, the enduravel, the graero...