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Probably just a 40 performance or performance elite with stickers

This could just be a bad quality picture but it looks like the Bomber 58 is getting an update soon, perhaps 29er? The lowers at least look like they have an arched crown like on all Fox forks.

Pretty sure he's in some murky Vancouver coffee shop doing spoken word poetry about lycra and Mini Coopers.

you vital super sleuths have just won the MTB tech rumors world championships with this bolt. Don't Post to Vital t-shirts coming soon.

Sag isn't any more nonsense that the manufacturer's recommended pressure. Pick one as a starting point and tune from there. Document the changes and how they feel. Only change one thing at a time. It's a basic troubleshooting process and it's more important to be able to track changes and correlate those to the results than where your starting point was.

I hope Jordi reads this thread

So the summary here is that there are a bunch of tires that are as good as Maxxis. Wonderful. Seriously, most of the positive comments involve something about how it's 'similar to', or 'as good as' an Assegai/Dissector/Aggresor, DHF/DHR. Even Dak's comments about the Vee "it reminds me of a Maxxis'. I've kind of been wanting to try the new Contis - but all the reviews basically say 'it's as a good as a Maxxis'. So might as well stick with what's always worked well and is dead reliable.

Lately I've been very impressed with the Continental Kryptotal FR & RE in DH casing. Probably the lightest tire that can reasonable claim to be fully DH-capable. I do want to try out those new Vee Tires though. Heard nothing but good things about them.

That’s another misnomer for me, this concept that you should be using all of the travel on your fork no matter what trail you ride? I mean surely if you ride a relatively smooth trail and only use 120mm of your 160mm, why should that mean that you should soften your suspension to use all of the travel instead of maybe you only need 120mm of travel for that trail? I mean it’s not about how much travel you use, it’s about how the suspension is working for you, or am I just completely confused here?

I'll bite - I used to set the standard 15-20% fork sag and could never trust my front end for anything but cruising well below trail speed. Way too much dive even with compression clickers full closed - which felt terrible. From there I started trying to run 10-15% which felt better but started to become pretty tough measure as I got closer to 10% so I just stopped measuring sag. Now I set me forks up for what feels most supportive when I push into the front for grip. Sometimes that means I rarely see anywhere near full travel...

I can relate. Wouldn't notice the joke of I hadn't zoomed in to see if it says mineral oil only to do a double take at what it says 😂

From the other site. Someone at Sram is having a chuckle

Looking pretty finished... hopefully not a 2024 release.

So you're saying there's a chance.

it would be the last partial ride (as in about 138 feet of trail) i ever did. #ripgordo

dante silva with a pinned ONE LAP on 1199 below and i asked rob warner if hardline and 1199 were comparable in the gnar factor. he was nice enough to write back saying, "hardline is totally different really, and the natural bits are way harder than 1199, but 1199 may be the best DH track i've ever seen. it's got everything." FWIW, dante apparently said 1199 "is terrifying". i'll go back to my internet hole : )

Track looks sick! Doesn't look incredibly hard to ride but racing it?! The fitness required to ride that top to bottom at race pace, insane. Looks punishing and it's going to get so torn up.

i take it all back. if warner made it down, it's way too easy

Watched lew buchanans latest video of trackwalk on 1199, he mentioned that theres most likely going to be a world cup there in 2024, just thought id add that to go alongside remy metailers statement about it. Presuming if it happens its just the uci/eso trying to make the most out of riders having to make the trip to the states/canada