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That was my initial thought too! Max pressure is 300psi

300psi https://www.sram.com/globalassets/document-hierarchy/service-manuals/ro…

Its funny you mention that, as that custom kit Nigel (NSR) made was the one I was specifically refering to, and the team got told they are not allowed to do that, and were forced to change. But yes, this will be my last post on this subject. Again, go have some beers with mechanics, youll learn a lot.

They offer custom tunes, but it is still the stock product just modified (although I dont specifically know about what Greg gets, just some of the aussie riders and frenchies). The fact is that the WC teams are run from marketing budgets from their sponsors, they are not allowed to modify or run a totally different product, they use what they get told to use and tune it to the best of their ability. I know for a fact a certain rider was running a custom cartridge in his fork and got in a lot of trouble from their sponsor...

VVC doesn't work like a typical shim stack, you can wedge 4 times the shims in there and it will do next to nothing. It involves incredibly fine tolerance machining of the standard parts (or a remake) then dyno'd and changed again and again as even 0.05mm preload will change the characteristics of the damper massively. It isn't worth the stuff around. A Fitgrip (or Grip1) tuned, different story, I have said this numerous times here, but it's a better damper than VVC Grip 2. Tuning Grip1 is not exactly easy either and involves again trial and error. This is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5R60JHJbxI&t=314s I would agree with what you have said about the bike being well balanced. I look at front center to rear center ratio to get an idea of how a bike will handle. The front center/rear center ratio will help to explain cornering character. Smaller bikes tend to have better turn in, more front end grip and the wheels track in a closer arc when compared to larger sizes. From what I have experienced a front/rear center ratio of 1.8 handles relatively neutral. Moving towards 1.9 will have twitchier, less predictable, harder to manage handling and the front will...

Same thing. Both use shim stacks and you can tune those pretty much to your hearts content (staying withing the limitations of stack height and shim stack charscteridtics of course...). I wonder if we'll ever see a spool valve shock on mountain bikes before the Multimatic patent runs out...

While Loic and Finn's bikes are indeed oddly glued to the ground, to say that Fox and RS can only offer clicky adjustments is just not true. Fox offers multiple tune options on rear shocks to athletes and custom ones to the top athletes (most notably Greg). RS does the same.

That silver link is much shorter than I was previously thinking. This is likely way more progressive than the real deal but I updated my older guess to shorten the 'pull' link and move the linkage pivot to concentric with the BB (which to me is the only option that makes sense given the super short link). I did this in a hurry so it's not very accurate even to that photo, but I found it interesting more as a proof of concept since this general shape of the leverage curve is considered 'desirable' by lots of people but hasn't...

You can see with the suspension bottomed the linkage running under the bb. To me, looks like an ancilotti-style linkage is hidden, combined with the visible seatstay pivots.

Also very interested to hear if anyone knows why it’s off the schedule. It was a bit of a shock announcement after the podiums. Will be a big loss for the Nevis range and the whole town I’d imagine.

I saw about 100 in lift line at Whistler looks pretty ready to me

Magura be like MORE ARCHES

Can’t wait for PB to post THAT photo 🤣🤣

(patiently waiting/hoping to see this pop up all over the rest of the internet)

New Maven seen without tape or camo.

Welcome back to the Life Choices and Personal Fitness; Rumors and Innovation forum. Can we go back to bikes please.

won't disagree that there's health benefits in many cases, but pretty big assumption to make that this (or any person) has any weight to lose. nothing wrong with product innovation to accommodate a broader range of body types.

Manitou this morning