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maximumradness Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/2/2026 3:59am
Yeah that’sa pretty neat bike. It’s unique and niche and isn’t that what bikes are supposed to be?
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slimshady Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
1 day ago Take the spacer off the 185x50 shock and make it 185x55. Here's an example, right form Vital's bike checks https://www.vitalmtb.com/community/mrmoody275/norco-optic-hp-custom
Uncle Cliffy Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/2/2026 3:35am
You can overshock an Optic to 135…? I’m in!
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Goupil Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
6/2/2026 3:35am
The amount of brand new Gen 2 optics still available online is wild given they stopped making them a good 2 years ago. I wonder if that made the 3 a harder sale, can't say I've seen many either
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slimshady Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
1 day ago The local brand manager showed us some release schedule along with some model data here at the product launch, earlier this year. Fluid will be the budget Al model line, Optic will return to be the higher tier one, with a slightly higher main pivot (Fluids are optimized for a 30t chainring, Gen 4 Optics will be for a 32t...
sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/28/2026 3:17pm
nukeproof DH bike from pit bits that will be fully live soon
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TheSuspensionLabNZ Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/22/2026 3:13pm
Guys I think you are reaching too far in to this - VPP was never any better or worse than other links out there, but the new layout makes a lot of sense from a packaging perspective so there are many legitimate reasons for the change. Also no disrespect to GT, but they haven't had a massive impact for a while as far as I can tell, but SC has plenty of good resources of their own - there is no reason they would be looking to GT for ideas
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brunch123 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/22/2026 3:12pm
Short travel coil king is probably Banshee Prime, 135 out back up to 160 up front, somewhere between 25-30% progression and goated geo. On one side it is like the dumbest bike ever because it doesn't work with air shock at all (even tho it comes specced with one), which means you have to slap coil on it, and once you have coil you wanna go fast but you have 130mm of travel so you have to put on some DH tires.... and you end up with 16 kg+ trail bike which is not ideal because you basically end up...
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slimshady Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/22/2026 12:11pm I've got two words for you: Norco Optic.
Glory831Guy Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/17/2026 12:44am
I'm not talking about damper architecture, Charger 2.1 vs 3.1. I'm talking about the individual tune that the bike manufacturer puts on the stock bike. The shock can have the same eye to eye and stroke dimensions + same Charger 3.1 damper, but one frame OEM uses medium compression tune, and a different frame OEM uses a light compression tune. That difference in stock tune can be more influential than leverage rate and a bunch of other factors unless the buyer/reviewer is going to do a bunch of aftermarket work. If you're talking about stock bikes with equal build spec...
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Glory831Guy Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/17/2026 12:43am
Whichever bike has the best damper tune specced probably wins at that point. I'm pretty sure that's a big deciding factor between bikes with different linkage designs also though. You would need control wheels, and tires at a minimum, and probably drivetrain also to get any useful data about which frame works better.
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1llumA Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/17/2026 12:42am
If we compare the new horst link tallboy with the Allied Fitz, Forbidden Reya and Transition Smuggler, there a few difference: Tallboy is the only bike using a trunion shock most likely a 185x50, Smuggler and Fitz use a normal 210x50 shock and Reya use a 190x45 shock. So Reya most likely have a higher starting leverage ratio that could limit heavier rider that are getting close to the shock max pressure. Reya, Smuggler and most likely Tallboy use double bearing setup at the chainstay. Santa Cruz does the same for the Bullit and Vala. Allied Fitz has no exploded...
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kperras Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/9/2026 8:40am
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slimshady Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/9/2026 7:33am Technologically, that's comment carcinization happening in front of your eyes. Evolution is a biatch.
jonkranked Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/5/2026 1:31pm
not a rumor - but i used the term "calibrated eyecrometer" during a work call today.
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boozed Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/5/2026 12:24am
I stripped a lockring during the industry's COVID hangover and none of the bike stores near me had spares. "You too, huh?" they all asked me. Awful design. At least I now know how easy it is to do so I won't do it again.
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DServy Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
5/5/2026 12:24am
Microspine drivers are a blight against humanity and should die in a fire along with the stupid plastic spacer they require to prevent Shimano cassettes from creaking like a haunted house. The only thing that might be worse than the microspine interface and its woefully anemic, made of cheese, lock ring might be the actual cassettes themselves which in the year of our lord 2026 still are half singe piece pinned garbage that falls apart and half stamped metal plates with spacers. Seriously, 12 speed shimano stuff is the most disappointing experience I've ever had with a drivetrain. I hate...
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slimshady Added a comment about bike check BTR Belter goes Rigid
5/1/2026 4:32am
WHY??
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slimshady Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
4/9/2026 5:07pm The one they use on the Vampire bikes? It's an idler/no idler thing, but it's still a Horst Link.
slimshady Added a reply to 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
4/9/2026 2:55pm You should also call out Canfield while you are at it. Patenting three holes in a frame or a variant of the Horst Link is as bogus as Tony Ellsworth's claims.
