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intense m1 is official. no deets on price or geo yet though.

So lessee: 4-piston, top-loading, moto/Hope style levers, Shimano/cup bleed, 2-piece caliper, 1-piece clamp, looks like reach (and maybe bite-point) adjustment (tool required), what else am I missing?

Not terribly ugly, albeit maybe a little odd compared to the big brands we’ve been using forever. Galfer rotors and pads are really good. I recommend them to anyone looking for something outside the regular offerings. Considering their position in motorsports, I’m sure their bicycle brakes are going to be solid.

Not my fault if vital on the phone sucks and didn’t upload the pic, anyway, there they are

Can we have another thread where we get semantic with kinematics.

This one is indeed a "real" 6-bar.

ns fuzz "6 bar" proto from our bike check section. if this is old news, ignore, but figured worth a look if not. https://www.vitalmtb.com/community/bmag247/ns-bikes-fuzz-29-custom-6bar…

Madonna V3 just dropped, looks rad! Like the V2 offers lots of adjustability. https://raawmtb.com/en-us/pages/madonna-v3

Just a norco sight from his norco days that has crestline branding and his current parts 👍

screenshot from Blenki/Cascades Story. I don‘t know if it already has seen daylight before?

The high anti-squat was interesting but he made some good points about how it drops off when you are standing out of the seat, (as your centre of gravity gets higher) so thats what they are designed around. Alot of the Anti-squat figures you see will be done in linkage with a generic CoG height and drivetrain configuration which isn't a perfect comparison, and I know Neko went over the numbers he uses in an early video. The other thing is it stays quite high through the whole travel so it will at least feel consistent - some bike have...

Neko's bike is super interesting. REALLY long chainstays across all sizes, and a pretty high antisquat value. I remember in his early test videos, he settled for a low pivot/mid pivot bike with more rearward axle path, and used an ochain instead of an idler pulley to overcome the pedal kickback from the rearward axle path. So if you buy a Frameworks, maybe budget an extra few hundred dollars for an Ochain. The bike also has a very low BB for a long wheelbase/long travel bike, so don't forget to buy a good bashguard or three.

Pole uses a fully rotated shock with a 90° yoke on both ends BTW.

Yeah like Zuestman says above, Neko says it's to keep the weight of the moving part of the suspension as low as possible. He shows the lower shock mount here https://youtu.be/nZADPtNg_Js?t=589, it doesn't look like a cartridge bearing and it looks like the tube that holds the shock bolt is metal and then the larger plastic looking tube around that must be the bushing.

Usually has to do with unsprung weight and how that affects suspension

Uh parabolic needle transitioning to a spring loaded poppet all tuned by an electromagnetic dyno for the individual chassis is the definition of Fancy Engineering in my book. Not arguing for, or against, but it’s definitely fancy.

Performance, price, availability, service, and even the used market. I had push on an offering v1, sb130, mullet Bronson, enduro, scout, offering v2, and SJ Evo. On all of those bikes I also tried X2, prev ver SD air, dhx and dhx2. Once the new SD coil came out I had it on a sentinel, SJ evo, and now forbidden Druid v2. Any time I get a new bike or new suspension component I take my time setting it up, different springs, and bracketing on the same trail. If I can, I bring multiple shocks to the trail and swap...

Also, looks like Suntour has a new Rux. Different graphics, drop crown, offset looks different too maybe.

Maybe they’re doing a budget shock. Doesn’t have the same shock body as the 11/6. Looks like LSC only on the top of the reservoir there. What they need is externally adjustable HBO. The new RS SD coil for a 1/3 of the price is significantly better than any of the 11/6 I owned on several different bikes over the years.