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He also said that he scoped the roots on the entrance after he almost crashed, and then just pulled like hell in his race run and hoped he got over them. #fullCommit

Do we think this is the same bike?

The days of way back! Now a days you have to dig into the MTBR archives to read about how Tony was right and all his customers were wrong…

Guess it confirms some of the rumors of the new normal fuel ex, 140r/150f travel, 65ish head angle, Though the last photo I'm not 100% certain if my eyes sees a pinch bolt?

Coolest part about this is it presumably will have the performance of a float x, but seems to get lsc and rebound while the cheap float x gets a lockout and rebound. With modern bikes I’d much rather have low speed compression than a lockout, especially the lockout on the float x that makes it so stiff its really only useful on roads.

Gross. Tony’s crimes against cycling are well documented. Also this; http://theteamrobot.blogspot.com/2015/09/lessons-from-end-of-era.html?m…

I get some serious anxiety just thinking about buying tires these days. Trust issues galore.

Yeah it's still a custom tool even for two piece calipers. Conveniently it's an angle that taper mills exist in so it's just a matter of getting most of the upper portion of the flutes ground off so that it can undercut. With a single piece caliper it would have to be a ground down dovetail or something entirely custom. Both of those are definitely trickier to source, but not impossible. Decreasing MC size gives you higher brake line pressures. Code levers hit 3000 psi easily as is. I would be hesitant to increase that further considering there's another upside...

Re machining calipers, - piston seal groove geometry is interesting. They are not square. About a 7deg taper on the outer surface. The top edge usually has a shallow angle chamfer to help control how the seal flexes outward. On a single piece caliper you'd need two different tools to cut the grooves. One for each side. Not the end of the world, but more custom tools. Custom ground stuff is a pain. - calipers aren't very wide so regardless of whether it's single piece or two pieces the length of tools isn't an issue. Except for the drills... -...

For the holes for the pistons, it's a matter of drilling them out. Simple. You then need a slot cutter to cut the O-ring groove and I'm guessing the same tool is used to cut a passage behind the two pistons (just an undercut under the bridge between the pistons). I'm not a CNC/manufacturing/tooling expert, far from it, but cutting a single piece caliper, by reaching into a deeper hole, possibly requires a longer stem on said cutter, which could influence the cycle times - the longer stem will be more flexible, so tooling loads need to be lower to...

Very few calipers today are one piece as it requires a lot of complicated machining and assembly to make it work. It actually has a single retaining pin and 4 bolts holding it together - see the 3rd pic, where the middle black bolt is the retaining pin, all the silver bolts hold the two halves together. So a single pad per side I'm guessing, but 2nd pic miiight show something similar to a 'tail' like the 1st gen Codes and Elixirs had? 3rd pic doesn't show that, so inconclusive. Other than that, the new caliper looks like it's a...

Enduro is arguably the most accessible and popular form of mtb there is right now, the market is after that do it all bike and here is the platform to showcase that on a grand scale. The bikes are so capable now and truly do pedal well that you could just have that 150/160mm bike and ride anything. The whole race on Sunday sell on Monday pun really does come into effect here so manufacturers will/should put their best foot forward with a presence IMO. But here is the sticking point, the official coverage/media is shithouse! The platform is there...

Let us remember.... But yeah, EWS coverage these days is pretty bad – but not Unbound Gravel livestream bad, that was horrendous. I was watching that with my nephew on Saturday and he said "we already saw this part" to which I replied "no, it just all looks the same." Excited for a World Cup weekend!

Not a flip chip. It’s just an insert so you can screw the bolt in from the other side and not have it turn. If you were to flip it, the bolt wouldn’t be able to thread in. They have indeed been using the Range for downhill. The DH configuration uses different drop outs and a different lower shock link/extension.