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mrks Liked a bike check Raaw Yalla V2 - BIG BIKE DREAMBUILD
7/13/2025 12:50pm
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ARonBurgundy Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
7/11/2025 11:05am
It's clearly the tires making the difference for Jackson
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CascadeComponents Liked a reply to forum topic Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
7/8/2025 3:44pm
Run of the mill McMaster stuff is 250F I believe. 300F is cured a little differently. That's what we were using. Did variation of FKM in the mineral oil brakes that was supposed to be compatible with DOT as well, but it swelled just enough to cause issues unfortunately.
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Slavid666 Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
7/8/2025 11:31am Great to know! Thats a good point about seal temp, EPDM does have a very low melt temp depending on the amount of polymeric cross-linking. As someone who has designed brakes, have you spent much time using seals in DOT applications outside of the run-of-the-mill mcmaster epdm? I have worked with o-ring molders that had some interesting grades of EPDM...
Slavid666 Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
7/8/2025 9:48am I don't have any data right now to say one way or another but my gut is telling me no. What I do know is that boiling temp increases pretty significantly based on the pressure that the fluid is it. I have heard engineers in the industry stating that line pressures are over 1000psi for peak braking events, that's 68X...
Slavid666 Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
7/8/2025 12:04am It’s the highest so far, higher than the mavens. One thing to keep in mind is that regardless of how much heat is being transferred to the fluid, hydraulic fluid, like dot or petroleum based mineral fluid, those fluids have some of the lowest thermal conductivity of any component in the brake system. It’s an order of magnitude lower than...
TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic Tire chat (nerds only)
7/7/2025 2:25pm
Yes, I agree that we're hearing a lot of different perspectives on the same tire. If I can expand on what I said earlier, I think it's actually a combination of what others have said. As a rear tire, I get a lot of squirm and fold from the Conti DH casing is I don't run extra pressure, about 3-5 psi more than I would on a Maxxis DH casing. But as a front tire, it feels wooden and transmits a lot more trail feedback compared to a Maxxis. It still managed to grip fine, I never had sketchy moments...
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Slavid666 Added a reply to Tire chat (nerds only)
7/7/2025 10:50am 203 on the scales this morning, 210 with gear. I started Saturday with 27/23 in my Spec DH casing tires and was getting loud pings on rocks charging through rock gardens, upped to 29/24 and that cleared up the issue for the rest of the weekend. This is one of the trails that is partly to blame for my rim...
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7/4/2025 10:14pm I personally really like the feel of the Conti DH casing, but agree that even though it’s stiffer to me, it requires more pressure than Maxxis or Specialized. I pretty much have to run 28/23 r/f to get them to feel good in berms. I can’t get Schwalbe casings to work for me, I was pushing SDH Tacky Chans to...
Slavid666 Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
7/3/2025 10:33am Low hydraulic leverage combined with short levers = lower power. Attached is a chart that I put together calculating hydraulic leverage based on MC piston and caliper piston diameters. There are some obvious components missing from this, notably mechanical leverage that is a result of the cam geometry and lever length. But it overall follows what I have felt with...
TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic Tire chat (nerds only)
6/29/2025 10:07pm
Fine so far, but can't really say because I've only ridden in SoCal summer dry. Grip really shows up in the wet, and I think harder tires oftentimes feel better on the concrete-like hardpack down here, especially in the rear. I will say that the MaxxTerra rear tire feels more damped than a Dual Compound, which is nice, and that probably bodes well for grip. More info coming soon.
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Slavid666 Added a reply to Tire chat (nerds only)
6/29/2025 12:19pm How’s the grip of the MaxxTerra in the rear? It’s been a minute since I’ve ridden one of those
Evil96 Liked a reply to forum topic Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
6/28/2025 10:50am
@TimBud couldn’t post the picture in the comments, and here could interest more, lever blades on the Evo Tech 4 are not backward compatible with Tech4 masters due to different cam design
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ethanrevitch Liked a bike check Forbidden Dreadnought V2
6/28/2025 10:49am
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6/28/2025 10:48am
Where's that Ohlins drip??
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DevlinCC Liked a bike check Devlin Jester Enduro Race 480
6/27/2025 10:26am
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Slavid666 Added a reply to FOX Podium Inverted MTB Fork - Questions, Answers, Reviews
6/26/2025 11:36pm I mean Fox is late to the game on this one and they are rolling out a giant marketing campaign with it. Some reviewers acting like it’s the first of their kind, said reviewers probably are not old enough to have ridden shiver sc’s. I’m sure it a good fork but it’s still just a fox fork at the end...
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6/26/2025 6:28pm Yes, I have gone between the Galfer wave and the TRP SE05’s. Both work great, they are on different wheel sets currently. I will replace the galfers with TRP’s once the galfers are done. I know the frameworks team was running a mix of both, waves and sharks of which the TRP’s are a clone of last year when they...
Slavid666 Added a reply to FOX Podium Inverted MTB Fork - Questions, Answers, Reviews
6/26/2025 8:26am Ohlins fits that bill pretty well. My 38M.2 is stiffer than my Lyrik but not quite as stiff as my Zeb. Better air spring and damper than both. Ohlins USA is in NC and really great to deal with IMO. The only downside is the lack of user serviceability but that's more due to tolerances being pretty tight and critical...
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6/25/2025 10:34am Update: Got a good weekend of riding in Friday-Sunday, 25miles and 19k feet of descending, would have been more if it wasnt for the snow storm on sat. Lots of laps on the old N* EWS track, TNT, along with Sticks and Boonies and I have to say I am very, very, impressed with the hopes and what I will...