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TEAMROBOT Liked a comment about Feature Vital Rides the All-New YT TUES on the Losinj World Cup Track
4/30/2018 2:09pm
Iceman, there are a lot of thoughtful reasons in your response in favor of attending the bike launch. I've never thought about the value to a tech editor of touching and seeing a bike in person. Similarly, seeing a World Cup race up close and personal will change the way you look at World Cup bikes forever. But I still don't think riding one bike in isolation in an unfamiliar venue in unfamiliar conditions gives much perspective on how the bike handles. The question isn't "Did the bike feel good?" I wager the Tues felt great, but... spoiler alert... so...
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Serge-W Added a reply to The Original (and Simplest?) Dropper Post? The Hite-Rite
4/5/2018 3:20pm I remember when we were 14 years old that for quite a while we actually made fun of these hite-rites. "Why adjust your saddle on the fly?" little did we understand their future significance...
Serge-W Added a comment about feature Rob Warner's YT Capra 29, Size XXL
4/3/2018 11:13pm
why blank out Warner's effing language? feels like the wrong end of pc on a true site like Vital
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Serge-W Added a comment about feature Vital MTB Test Sessions: Five of the Best Long-Travel Enduro 29ers Raced and Reviewed
3/7/2018 12:44pm
Great stuff, more of it please! Neeeerding out on bikes, gotta love it!
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Solidautomech Liked a comment about Feature Pro Bike Check: Bas van Steenbergen's Hyper
2/14/2018 8:58am
Four bar? It looks like a single pivot with a linkage drivin shock.
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iceman2058 Liked a comment about Feature Vital MTB Face Off: The Best Heavy-Duty Disc Brakes
12/21/2017 8:15am
As we pointed out in the article: for "those who master it the Saint could arguably rank higher – such is its outright power and capacity to stop any moving object on a dime." Going from Saint to Hope is definitely a bit of an anticlimax at first. Their power delivery could not be more different. That said, if you are a die-hard Saint fan, nothing else will do really. Ultimately, our scoring mechanism takes into account the general usability across a wide range of conditions (as well as aspects like weight and price), and there is no denying that...
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Serge-W Added a comment about feature Vital MTB Face Off: The Best Heavy-Duty Disc Brakes
12/21/2017 8:15am
Fair enough, thanks for the reply!
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Serge-W Added a comment about feature Vital MTB Face Off: The Best Heavy-Duty Disc Brakes
12/21/2017 7:00am
I am not sure where this low mark for the Saint's modulation comes from. To me they were always well controllable (no digital feel or so). In contrast, anytime I tried Hopes, the immediate sensation was "uh-oh, lack of power". Anyway, none of these here are the bees knees, Shigura FTW! ;-)
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'size Liked a comment about Feature The Inside Line Podcast - Santa Cruz Syndicate
12/20/2017 3:15pm
wait, where's Eliot Jackson????
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Serge-W Added a comment about feature First Look: Eminent Cycles Haste
11/28/2017 4:07pm
Can somebody please clear me up, how does the rotation direction of the links influence the suspension?
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Serge-W Added a comment about feature We Ride Coil and Air Shocks Back-to-Back
10/20/2017 2:15pm
Well yeah, but less sag is secondary to the benefits, in my experience. Especially the geometry bit. When the suspension is constantly at work and at different travel positions (eg front on root, rear in hole), you're not so likely to note the effect. I feel the geodifference of an angle set much more than changes in spring rate balance. That leaves me perhaps with a harsh ride, but only feeling that in the parking lot. So for rising rate frames, for me that's the way forward. Decidedly not air, because at comparable end stroke forces, the air shock actually...
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Serge-W Added a comment about feature We Ride Coil and Air Shocks Back-to-Back
10/19/2017 2:19pm
I second Rems' comment. Got a Capra with a Moto C2R and a 350lbs spring (at 67kg naked). Before it had the stock Float X2, which was good, but no match for the coil. On the graph of force characteristics you show, the curves are parallel at initial travel, but greatly different near bottom-out (much higher force for air shock). If I'd want to substitute an air shock for a coil one, I'd select the new spring rate so that it matches the bottom out force of the air shock. That curve will then actually give a much better platform...
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Jmhdh Liked a comment about Feature We Ride Coil and Air Shocks Back-to-Back
10/19/2017 2:05pm
Of course, since the progression curve of a coil shock (linear) is different than an air shock (progressive, flat in mid-stroke, then progressive again), you really can't go ride each on the same bike. If you design the bike for an air shock, you need to adjust the leverage curve to compensate. One of them is going to be kinda poor performing, or if the bike is designed to be a compromise between the two they are both going to be "meh". This review had good intentions, but just because manufacturers spec both coil and air shocks on the same...
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Serge-W Added a comment about feature TECH TALK: Air Shocks Versus Coil Shocks, What's Better?
10/16/2017 7:22am
The simplifying assumption is that the process is well and truly adiabatic (no process is in reality). The adiabatic effect is the heating up of air during compression. The effect that they describe is that the heat stays mostly in the air at high shaft speeds. This is because the compression and release cycle is so fast at high shaft speeds, that there is very little time for heat dissipation into the surrounding metal aircan. However, when an airshock is compressed rapidly, the momentary heat essentially causes a higher, effective pressure of the air, compared to when you slowly compress...
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Serge-W Added a reply to Are We About To See The Longest Hotseat Streak Ever?
9/12/2017 12:49am I'd say the riders that Hill sees as his true competitors were all there. So to speak of a less-stacked field feels somewhat off, at least in this regard. Of course not all riders from the WC circuit were there, but it didn't make a difference with respect to Hills result.
Marciniasz Liked a bike check Mondraker Dune Custom Carbon
9/11/2017 6:05am
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