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noideamtber Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/11/2023 4:29pm
Moving the sight to HP is silly IMO. theres a couple of things to tidy up the sight like higher stack, more progressive curve & Threaded BB on the carbons. - I havnt seen any failures so maybe a diet for them aswell? i personally would also like a mulletable one. Id buy a new sight with the above changes, even just the stack and curve update.
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FerrousBueller Liked a comment about bike check Starling Swoop V2
5/11/2023 12:30pm
Swoopin' into these comments to say: nice bike!
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GabeShen Liked a comment about bike check Starling Swoop V2
5/11/2023 12:30pm
Rig and a half! This blue was a very close second choice for my swoop!
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Splayleg Liked a comment about bike check Starling Swoop V2
5/11/2023 12:30pm
Swoop there it is
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jerrywillows Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/11/2023 11:15am
Neko had a good discussion about it in his earlier vids.... he obviously chose no HP.
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Primoz Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/11/2023 11:15am
There are fewer and fewer really high pivot bikes being made, they are moving more towards mid to low height high pivot layouts, people have negative comments about high pivot bikes (balance changes going through the travel, noise and drag from the system, issues with the chain stretch on the lower chain length), pro riders in some cases moving away from HP bikes to standard bikes, etc. I kinda get the allure for race bikes, so DH and enduro, but even there there are companies sticking to the tried and tested layout. It seems a VERY weird move to make...
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Primoz Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/11/2023 11:14am
Is it just me or is a high pivot Sight, let alone an Optic, the exact opposite of where the industry is going lately?
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ggccvv Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/11/2023 11:14am
Yup, my bad, its the Shore.
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Onawalk Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/11/2023 11:14am
I assume the Sight and Optic will both be HP bikes at this point, I think there was some fairly decent rumour of this several pages back. That just looks like a Shore frame to me, but I could be wrong
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PisgahGnar Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/11/2023 11:13am
He says it, but I find it hard to believe that he is racing a 130 bike at a place like Maydena and coming in 4th only five seconds behind Connor who was on a dreadnought. I’ve owned a Druid and yes it feels like a lot of travel but not that much more travel.
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Primoz Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/11/2023 11:13am
Be the change you want to see in the world.
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ORTOGONAL555 Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/11/2023 11:13am
For some reasons I can't see that name catching on, or maybe I do?
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Primoz Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/11/2023 11:13am
Linkage driven Horst link. Or what was it called a few pages ago, the sexbar (from the fauxbar)?
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TayRob Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/11/2023 11:12am
I still remember having a pivot bolt come loose on my M9 at a national race, taking it out in the hotel room to put loctite on it and re-torque it, only to have my friend have to stand on the seat stay so I could thread the bolt back into the upper link. I sold that frame right quick after that…
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ZAKBROWN! Liked a reply to forum topic Crank length/bb height . Is shorter/lower the future?
5/11/2023 11:11am
Just wanted to share my recent experience with 5dev customer service. I had ordered a set of 145mm enduro cranks from them last fall purely out of short crank curiosity. With the never ending winter we had in Utah I hadn't gotten around to installing them and then someone in this thread noted they were actually for youth riders. I contacted them a couple days ago and they were super cool, sent me out a set of the new freeride cranks and a return label for the old ones. I'm aware of the whole wheelie guy debacle, just wanted to...
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human powered suicide machine Liked a reply to forum topic Convert 3x9 Cannondale F700 to 1x10 and keep Shimano Deore XT Cranks
5/10/2023 4:40pm
My friend asked me the same thing a couple of months ago. Here was my answer: Option1 : you keep your shifter and derailleur 1 chainring (narrow -wide) probably a 32t, pay attention to the bolt patterns, there are many standards https://www.amazon.com/s?k=narrow+wide+chainring+104+bcd&sprefix=narrow… it can be as cheap as $10 https://www.amazon.com/DJC-Chainring-104BCD-Aluminum-Lightweight/dp/B09… then you need a wide-range cassette. If you want to keep your shifter and derailleur, stick with 10 speed. something like https://www.amazon.com/Cassette-11-40T-Mountain-Bicycle-Shimano/dp/B07C… an 11-40 is reasonable with your derailleur but if you want more range then your derailleur will be a limitation . the biggest gap between small and big...
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ebruner Liked a reply to forum topic Crank length/bb height . Is shorter/lower the future?
5/10/2023 4:39pm
6'2" here, ride an XL and have a 33"ish inseam. I had been running 175's on my trail/xc bikes and 170 on my enduro bikes and ebike for years. Recently, I switched to 165's on my enduro bike, 160mm on my ebike and 170 on my trail/xc bike. When I initially built up my enduro bike back in 19', I kept getting tripped up going from 175's on my other bikes and getting on that bike and feeling like my leg/foot speed was so fast and yet it felt like the bike was sluggish, like I was pedaling through molasses...
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jerrywillows Liked a reply to forum topic Crank length/bb height . Is shorter/lower the future?
5/10/2023 10:21am
long cranks for people with a low cadence and shorter cranks for riders with higher cadence seem to work best.
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TEAMROBOT Added a comment about feature Canyon Launches TWO New eMTBs: the Strive:ON and Torque:ON
5/9/2023 9:52pm
Getting yelled at, errrr... coached by Fabien Barel, complete with hand gestures, is a lifelong dream of mine. Jealous.
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WhoTookIt Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
5/9/2023 2:06pm
It looks like there's three pivots, the bottom bracket, and the shock mount all going through the two side pieces that are welded together, so thankfully tons of features to fixture while welding. ED: Also since they're all going between the same two side pieces as long as you get those two right everything behind them follows quite nicely.
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