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You mean like numerous specialized prototypes, intense prototypes, mondraker prototypes went into production right? That UCI rule only applies to road racing.

If you buy the YT team assets does it come with the WC points? Maybe BK needs to pony up!

I'll send them a letter back telling them I look forward to cooperating with them when I intend to take the bike to market, which is never. If they want to get between me and my hobby I'm more than happy just ignoring them 😂

i still fail to see the issue, like every single biker had wheelsets they keep swapping around for fun like lego blocks

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I've had the same question for a while and haven't been able to find an answer either! Would be curious to see if anyone has any input here.

OK, I'm gonna lock this thread, feel free to start another one if you feel the need...

Get a broom handle with no broom on it. Hold it vertically with your palm over the top of it, and thrust it downwards into a concrete floor as hard as you can. The broom handle hits the floor, and the high degree of compressive stiffness of the broom handle transmits the impact efficiently into your hand, and now it hurts. Your hand didn't get any closer to the ground than the length of the broom handle because it did not compress, or bend, it just transmitted the force along the length of the handle. Now with the bottom of...

This feels like a discussion with a Flat Earther.

Some of us have years of education and experience from the field...

This has somehow morphed from talking about undamped spring force and rebound from a flex stay to transmission of vibrations. Very different things. Any frame will transmit vibrations to varying degrees. To figure that out you have to look at natural frequency and then also the frequency of impacts on whatever trail you're riding. I would guess that most flex stay frames have a higher natural frequency. Santa Cruz chose to design the Blur with a very thing seat stay. This is not something that is a requirement for the functionality of a flexure. In the huck to flat video...

This will be my last attempt at explaining why rebound damping at the shock will control the flex stay. If you take the blur rear triangle and attach the upper pivot to the lower pivot with a rigid member, you are forming a triangle and locking out the flex stay. If the shock were to be locked at any given position, it’s effectively doing the same thing. As such, for the flex stay to move the shock just move and therefore the damping at the shock is controlling rebound of the flex stay.