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Another look at the SRAM "Maven" brakes from the pits

Should we move this bar height debate into a separate topic? It's a thing I've started thinking about lately and tried a few things out (as noted above), so would love to discuss it in more detail, but this really isn't the place.

I only clued into this phenomenon last year but I wish I had figured this out when I started riding 10 years ago. It seems crazy at first to add so many stem spacers and to get such high rise bars but it makes a world of difference. I'm 6'2" with a 32 inseam for reference. I would say any range +/- 25mm from your seat height will work depending on conditions etc. My DH bike is slightly above seat height and my enduro bike is slightly below.

Try it. I went from a 40 mm stem and a 30 mm rise bar to a 35 mm stem and 55 mm rise bars. A world of difference (in a good way).

Looks like a Conti Argotal

"If your bars aren't at least as high as your seat at full extension, they are probably too low for a trail or enduro bike." At 6'2 with a 34" inseam I'd need ape hangers to achieve that.

I wanted to send this as a PM, but you have them closed off. I'd be sparse with the details where you got the info from, you might get your friend in trouble. I doubt companies are happy that people outside their organisation or outside their control (NDAs, liabilities and stuff...) ride unreleased stuff...

ENHANCE yes.

New RS shock looks to be called a Vivid

Taken from pit bits 3. Michelin DH 16?

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Hi Basti, First of all, thank you for the thoughtful response, I'm sure that this was not what you expected to come back to after a holiday! I would like to celebrate that we can have a civil conversation on Vital, and I am grateful to have you here. My intention for starting this thread was not about punishing SQ Labs for this specific ad, but rather to discuss why the industry as a whole has an issue with woman as adornment. I understand that this was not the intention of the ad- between the ad showing up for most...

Hi, Basti from SQlab here, Sorry for being late, we had a public holiday in Germany, yesterday. Upfront, I am in charge for int. Marketing here, so it is only me to blame, plus maybe our team rider Stevie, with whom I created the whole campaign idea, which the video is the most important part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nquh2lM75X8 Before I post our official statement, I want to point out first, that on a shooting side, we simply fucked up. We never wanted the butts to look same and female on the first look. We wanted the widest spread of different butts as...

top 60 go into the semi final eh? And, sam hill 120th, did I read that right? Jenna DNS and Nina DNF, crap! Rachel looked fast as F in the RAW video Mens race is literally the most competitive (multi winners) its ever been.

Like many things, both extremes can feel bad in a similar way. So too little HBO (or none) will be harsh on bottom outs as the shock reaches a solid (ish) end point, but too strong of an HBO effect could feel harsh as it ramps up the damping force too suddenly. In reality, each bike and rider is going to be different and what feels like harshness is a sudden change in force which can either be too soft of a spring + damping suddenly transitioning in to a reasonable HBO (side note - soft settings encourage faster compression...

Bike looks amazing, however, how is it possible to design a frame that is not compatible with one of the most widely used DH forks? Honest question, what makes the frame incompatible with a Boxxer?

Holy chainstay length Batman