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But we agree that the bike pictured has no handlebar, the wheel isnt round and there are bits of tyres floating around the background? My advice isn't "don't do AI", but regenerate the picture to get something that looks like a bike. If you don't care that a bike is a bike, how can we know that you care whether any of the numbers or info is correct? (Having similar discussions on nearly a daily basis at work, every software/data/information industry is cooked)

Naw. It’s your being a dick to people on this form. Cascade components is a great asset here. However, you’re just an ass.

A certain newly active member should be along to shit all over this with a quickness

The soft undercurrent of a few of these post seems to imply anything made in Asia or engineered by Asians is somehow of lower quality. Engineering really has nothing to do with nationality or ethnicity. You can find high and low quality products everywhere in the world. Quality is a reflection of the decisions made by the brand not the the citizenship or location of the engineers. If you are manufacturing at scale at some point you'll need to work with a factory and their engineers. And you'd have a hard time finding a greater concentration of institutional knowledge and...

Maybe most of them know that would be inappropriate and choose not to be weirdos

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Have a look at Matt Beer's article from PB. At 2:40 in the video you can see his weight distribution changing in real time. That said, I don't need another Shockcraft branded drawing to tell me if I can use my rear brake on a steep trail. 30 some years of actual riding is a sufficient data point to know the answer is yes. Often and effectively.

So I went and grabbed my DH bike to see how the CG location stacks up. This is an easy experiment to do if anyone feels inclined to put some real numbers on themselves… measure the weight of you and your bike. In my case this is 190.4 lbs. Then find a nice level spot where you can balance with your bar end ever so slightly on a wall for support. Put the scale under the front wheel and then weight the bike however you see fit. Record that weight. (Total weight-front wheel weight)/total weight is the percentage of weight...

We got 2 weeks out of him guys, kind of proud of Dougal here for lasting so long without a diatribe of rhetorical baiting.

I need to get some bigger ones and maybe 3d print a mouth that goes on the bearing to make it look like its screaming I do honestly do work, I pormise

The machine is basically a motor that turns a shaft, which is turned in to linear up and down motion. The software runs the machine faster and faster, and measures how much force the damper is producing at every point and speed in the stroke. My machine is a CTW "rotary" type dyno with 2 HP and one of the more basic, lower power machines on the market (I think about $15,000 USD today). CTW was born out of a company called Roehrig who pioneered workshop damper testing in the early 90's - many of the older racecar and motorcycle...

From this description I'm getting PVD vibes...

I won't sugarcoat it, He single handedly ruined MTBR suspension forum. There were so many knowledgable industry insiders, inventors, owners and passionate puzzlers on that forum and according to him they were all wrong, non-sensical ranting and bickering meant most of those incredible posters left the forum and didn't contribute anymore. Don't let history repeat itself is all I'm saying, this forum is the exact same, nerds, industry insiders and company owners all stoked on bikes. Let's keep it that way!

HPC is a blight, I used to get adds for them and they always pissed me off. Prime example of the problem. I said this on PB and figured I should say it here. It would be awesome if reviewers and news sights would come together and refuse to review or cover any ebike that has a power output over a specific threshold, maybe like 1000 watts. I think that it would go a very long way in stopping the nonsense power output wars that are going on with ebike motors. People who need or want assistance while riding can...

Welp, we had a good run here at Vital didn't we.

1- MaxxTerra DHX DH casing should be in the next 1-2 months. Other pattern DH casings in Maxxterra in the fall, or end of year at latest. 2- the grade of nylon was changed for the new DH casing compared to DD. The ply overlap has also changed, DD has 4 layers under the tread in most locations, where the new DH has 6 layers consistently out to where the under tread overlap meets the sidewall protection. This ends up giving more under tread protection compared to the old 2x60tpi DH casing by around 30% in a plunger force test...

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