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Ok, I've shit on Scott's internal shock designs on here forever and while if I'm being honest, the long travel bikes do look good, my minds not changing on the serviceability side of things and that their bikes are a consumer nightmare. Why are they pushing the internal shock thing so hard? Is it just to be different? Is it to have a selling point to some "needs the cool new thing" consumer out there because their bikes didn't have any real reason to buy them over another bike until they had a unique thing? That isn't actually that unique...

Few things I felt compelled to share... 1) Objective measurement is largely lacking in suspension tuning and testing. Yes, the big guys all have/use them and I know its expensive but a suspension dyno is a tool that is *so* needed to confirm/disprove a hypothesis or show why something may be a certain way. I know they have limitations, too, but without showing what a tune/change/knob fiddling does across a test battery, its pretty hard to talk about this stuff. 2) A lot of this is largely academic. Its cool, and #nerdsunit but I don't need to know why something...

I found with the Charger 3 that almost closing the HSC and using the LSC adjuster to dial in the overall damping works pretty well. I just got a 3.1 upgrade kit and am hoping it gives me a few more tuning options as the HSC has more range on the stiffer end.

"Welcome, We focused on amazing, fascinating ,unbelievable and bikes. Here is an old bike.......it is bad. Our new bike is everything you ever wanted with all the things that are good and no bad things. Here is a person who agrees. In short, people who want a bike will like it because we made it better. This is a person.....he is great also. The things we have improved are better things now. 'I like it a lot' Thankyou fellow humans" I need proof that wasn't Ai generated.

I have a lot of respect for Dave. He cracked open up this can of worms and shouldn't have been surprised to get pushback on that statement. Very much to his credit, the Super Deluxe Air is regarded as an excellent product and possibly the most durable shock on the market. I trust it, it's what I run. " What I find even more interesting are all the internet trends getting driven by a small vocal group of people, sometimes with merit, other times as snake oil. The power of placebo is a helluva drug, and we certainly tend to...

Don’t be that guy ”I’ve got a secret… tee hee hee” It’s pathetic even for 7 year olds

Shameless promotion time. I sat down with Alan Milway (coach and Norco team manager) last week to chat about all the DH team moves and get this thoughts on them. Podcast version is live now here https://www.downtimepodcast.com/team-moves-2024/ YouTube version premieres at 6pm GMT today if anyone fancies joining us here https://youtu.be/9kXXLt4lsuI

This is what peak athleticism looks like and I don't care what anyone else says.