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SteveClimber Added a reply to Dakotah Norton Explains Why He's Riding 75mm Bars
5/23/2024 12:42am But what he's stating is a fact. It's simple trigonometry. If you move your hands higher, your weight moves backwards. Imagine infinitely tall bars where your arms are vertical above you, versus 0 rise bars, you can clearly imagine the gradient where lowering the bars creates the lean forward at the hip, thus moving the centre of gravity forward. He's...
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SteveClimber Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/23/2024 12:18am Yes please. One thing I want for the testing is for riders to wear noise cancelling headphones or just listen to music, as while I think O-chain absolutely provides a benefit, I think the silence aspect is a huge placebo effect. On the topic of chain slap, I'm just going to say that 200g of chain moving around is going...
SteveClimber Added a reply to 2024 Racing Talk
5/21/2024 5:04am Is it suprising that one of the top teams, that signed a French champion, that trains incredibly hard and has a team so much larger than others they have private videographers on course to find lines and do comparison timing is successful? The bike is definitely great, but with the Specialized resources, training regime, coaching, support staff etc, he would...
Adam_Schaeffer Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
5/20/2024 10:45am
Jake and Dan just pulled the Dave Portnoy/Barstool move: sell out to the corporate goons at peak value, watch them tank the brand to within an inch of its life, then step in at the last minute to buy it back at pennies on the dollar. Kent is stoked to be rid of the sinking ship, while Jake and Dan now have the profits from the original sale to reinvest into the brand. Perfect! IMO they should bring back the 2000's styling and model names. Not many brands have been around long enough to go 'retro', but Kona has. Bring...
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SteveClimber Added a reply to Dakotah Norton Explains Why He's Riding 75mm Bars
5/20/2024 2:48am He explained why that didn't work for him though, as it increases the chances of his chin hitting during huge compressions. I think the debate is settled when he pointed out that his bar to ground measurement isn't very different than the GT frame. Its just that Mondraker have crazy short head-tubes. Mondraker were obviously one of the first to...
SteveClimber Added a reply to Nerding out on Brakes shall we? Not another tech deraliment
5/15/2024 4:14am I think half the reason that thick rotors feel better is that there is less gap between pad and rotor and therefore less chance for sticky Pistons to impact performance, and also less rotor warp under load making the S shape from the pad force. Obviously the heat management is billed as the main benefit, but because you are forced...
SteveClimber Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/15/2024 3:05am Eventually with even shorter cranks, even bigger bars than Dak we will resemble monowheels with our supreme upright posture. The stack increase is an interesting development, it's not a reaction to the extreme reaches some frames come nowadays, it's restoring a normal body position with the benefits of a long wheelbase.
SteveClimber Added a reply to Electronic Suspension Discussion
5/14/2024 6:12am Yeah, and theyre wrong lol. Fox went all in on light compression tunes, massive amounts of tokens in forks to generate support and huge spring forces to prevent bottom out. BK used to run 7 spacers in his 40. Its only now when they're starting to realise that you need a balance, and they had it wrong. The reason Ohlins...
SteveClimber Added a reply to Poland World Cup Downhill - Bielsko-Biala 2024
5/14/2024 2:51am Track looks very short no? Maybe theyre not showing the whole thing. The natural sections look cool. I'll wait to make a judgement till practice starts, but my initial take is that it's short and not steep.
earleb Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/13/2024 11:48pm
Geometron wasn't happy about people finding a spot to squeeze a bottle in up front of the shock so they stick a brace in there. Any list of what has changed on this one?
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SteveClimber Added a reply to ALL THINGS ENDURO
5/13/2024 2:37am But it's not like the previous races were easy, and there isn't really an argument to make that fit riders weren't already doing well with previous liaison times. But now it's incredibly punishing, and my biggest complaint is if you have a mechanical on one of the stages before a big liaison, your absolutely stuffed. There are already punishments for...
SteveClimber Added a reply to ALL THINGS ENDURO
5/12/2024 1:01am I think we can all agree that the phrase "violating human rights" is extreme hyperbole, and harms her argument here. However I've spoken to a few athletes and it seems the entire liaison timing and feed timing was just a shit show. Terrible organisation. It was incredibly punishing to anyone who had a mechanical, as you were pretty much done...
SteveClimber Added a reply to Electronic Suspension Discussion
5/10/2024 1:49am Oh good point, and in dual crowns there's actually so much space in the stanchion that you can do this easily. Get on it primoz! Threaded rod and servo motor, here we go! Do we have any shots of their Ohlins forks to see what's on them? So we can do, servo on compression adjuster, servo on rebound adjuster, threaded...
SteveClimber Added a reply to Electronic Suspension Discussion
5/9/2024 11:45pm Yeah it would be pretty severe to go up 100lbs with the same rebound. I wish I had a sprindex to test it, find a motor way and try blasting with the same rebound and see if it's manageable. I think a bigger issue is not being able to change fork pressure, it would be very weird to still have...
SteveClimber Added a reply to Electronic Suspension Discussion
5/9/2024 2:12pm It was interesting to watch that on the motorway at Fort Bill, the ones who were making up times were the ones catching the backsides of the jumps properly, some came steaming in and couldn't squash hard enough, went to flat, and you'd see them lose 0.3 by the end of the sector. Some have theorized that the Ohlins shock...
SteveClimber Added a reply to Electronic Suspension Discussion
5/9/2024 7:34am I'll kick it off with my take on a great question by @hamncheez2003 Tune your suspension only for sector 2, dial it there, don't compromise on anything else, then the buttons firm things up for the end of the track? Most others had to compromise between these two severely different parts of the track, slowing them down in sector 2...
sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/9/2024 7:21am
electronic suspension discussion topic created here - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/electronic-suspension-discussion (you're all welcome to start these yourselves. if they're good topics, i'll homepage them). #gizmos
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SteveClimber Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/8/2024 11:10pm Just so you know, you argument is invalid as you keep moving the goal posts. First it's, lockouts saved so much time on the flat. I referenced the actual timing of the athletes with lockout and the race timing and it's sector 2 that decided the race, followed by sector 3, sector 4 and 5 are both so short and...
SteveClimber Added a reply to 2025 Racing Talk
5/8/2024 10:31am But the fact is it isn't financially viable. From Pinkbike's state of the sport survey(2024), which to my knowledge is the best data set we have for athlete pay, only 40 reported an income of +50k USD (21 reported under 5k USD) and only 4 athletes total said renumeration was appropriate and that was from 104 respondents. 2023 had 49...
SteveClimber Added a reply to 2025 Racing Talk
5/8/2024 9:04am Oh absolutely I agree @sspomer, and for the record what you guys and everyone at Vital does for the sport is invaluable and I believe greatly appreciated by everyone far and wide. My comment was more directed at @philip.vega.921 who has a very common view of "go back to the old format", but it doesn't acknowledge the fact the old...