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PUSH Industries Liked a reply to forum topic Coil Shock Shootout
2/26/2026 3:22pm
Wow, that's an old pic that you shared! Total blast from the past. To answer your question, we probably have a total of 5 piston designs that were used over the years in our Factory Tuning Systems. Here are a couple of evolutions that made it into our ELEVENSIX rear shocks. The 3-port design used a pretty aggressive 2 degree dish on the rebound face. The 4 port reduced that to a minimum dish and adjusted the flow rate based on a change in clamp shim diameter.
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PUSH Industries Liked a reply to forum topic Coil Shock Shootout
2/26/2026 3:21pm
That Fluid Focus piston is actually a PUSH piston that we used to sell them as part of our DXH Factory Tuning Kit. I've seen that piston offered by a couple of independent suspension tuners that we used to sell to. Once we stopped offering those types of products, a number of tuners took the parts to local machine shops and had them reverse-engineered because they already had all of the valve codes to go with them.
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sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation - Longer and Slacker
2/24/2026 5:24pm
@jessemelamed rules
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reynolds666 Liked a comment about bike check Purple Reign S-Works Stumpjumper 15
2/24/2026 5:23pm
Photoshop is like makeup: too much is vulgar.
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StudBeefpile Added a reply to 2026 Race Talk
2/23/2026 1:32pm The only race where I have given up TWICE in a single stage! It’s so interesting to see EDR fail while events like this flourishing
sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Race Talk
2/23/2026 1:30pm
Silver Mountain in Kellogg, Idaho hosts US Enduro National Champs June 6-7. Deets below https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/silver-mountain-hosts-2026-…
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StudBeefpile Added a comment about bike check Euler Bikes Project: Trail Prototype
2/23/2026 11:47am
What a beautiful bike, that paint job is perfect. I'm used to homemade bikes looking like they came out of the apocalypse. This thing looks production ready.
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StudBeefpile Added a reply to 2026 Race Talk
2/22/2026 10:44pm “happy” 😩 I honestly thought he got a flat near the start of the last split, you could hear him make some groan noise on the live feed. Apparently that was just his turbos spooling up
Bobs_is_better_than_A-line Liked a reply to forum topic What are people's favorite true trail bikes in 2026?
2/22/2026 4:45pm
"The price is a bit steep" That is the rub for me. Can't find any reasonably priced new frames anywhere. The price does not make sense compared to full builds. Frame up builders are getting gouged unless the bulk discounts they get are much much greater than I thought. I wish Santa Cruz offered C framesets. Transition is the one brand that has reasonable frame prices IMO.
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StudBeefpile Added a reply to 2026 Race Talk
2/22/2026 4:35pm Dude put 10s into Bruni. I know it’s not a wc race, but also I don’t think Bruni is just sitting down in the last split either. Dude emptied the tank at the bottom.
jalopyj Liked a comment about Feature Vital Staffers in Heaven (Queenstown) and Hell (The ER) - Bikes Unaff......Podcast
2/22/2026 4:28pm
lol. After hearing spomers story…new podcast name should be The Vital Stream Team
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StudBeefpile Added a comment about feature Vital Staffers in Heaven (Queenstown) and Hell (The ER) - Bikes Unaff......Podcast
2/20/2026 8:39pm
For Jason and Lars, check out the base ass bronze maven. They don’t have the swing link, or whatever makes them progressive. They don’t have bite point adjust tho. Those came on my bike and I find them easy to get along with. Also, somewhere I heard that a v2 of the maven is coming that is fixing the stabby-ness of the higher end models.
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TEAMROBOT Liked a comment about Blog Post Video: Alden Pate Returns to Crestline
2/13/2026 8:59am
Pinner. Also the new DH line at Duthie is looking sick in the video.
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StudBeefpile Added a comment about blog post Video: Alden Pate Returns to Crestline
2/13/2026 8:44am
We are truly blessed. The trail down Trinidad also looks pretty dialed right now too
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Mike_Scubadog Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Team Rumors
2/12/2026 10:56am
Because he's a good dude and people like to see nice things happening to good people.
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TEAMROBOT Liked a comment about Feature Push Nine One Inverted Fork Review, Part 1
2/12/2026 10:52am
It is most definitely from the front, and yeah it's not my fave. Not sure why it does that. The answer I got from Fox was something along the lines of "it shouldn't do that." Maybe I'm missing a bumper on the air spring?
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StudBeefpile Added a comment about feature Push Nine One Inverted Fork Review, Part 1
2/11/2026 8:23pm
I thought the clang was from your rear wheel. That is spooky hearing that from the front. Did you get an answer as to why the podium makes such a racket? I have always been impressed by fox's bottom out. It always feels smoother, more muted and more controlled.
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ebruner Liked a reply to forum topic Shimano/TRP Maven - S-tier braking (Shaven/Traven)
2/10/2026 2:56pm
The venn diagram overlap of "has enough money to mess around with expensive parts and has an expensive bike" and "does not own proper hex keys or a bike stand" is maddening.
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StudBeefpile Added a reply to Stem Length
2/10/2026 9:31am Heheh, running what the fast guys run is just as good advice as listening to this guy honestly. I mean, should we all have the same stack height as Goldstone relative to our height? Run the same skyscraper bars as Dak? Why don't we throw Mr. Wilsons reverse stem on there as well. 
See where I'm going? Not defending...
See where I'm going? Not defending...
iceman2058 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Red Bull Hardline Tasmania
2/9/2026 10:18pm
Is Hardline even that hard?
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