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As far as I know Ohlins collaborated with Cane Creek for the double barrel. How the relationship worked I have no idea, but you could get an Ohlins "double barrel" in silver for formula student (as revalved DHX shocks were common in formula student at the time). I'd be surprised if this is any more than a rebranding exercise, new internals are expensive and would make servicing more cumbersome. It does look a bit different to DVOs current offering though...

My guess would be that the suntour made fork & shock body were the cheapest/easiest to source and that the internals are a completely custom affair. I’m not positive but I think ohlins used to do something similar until they invested in making their own lowers/uppers for their forks

With it just being red DVO, I’d be super interested in how this relationship works. DVO hand over all their RnD and contract suntour to build it for WP for a boat load of cash so DVO can further develop their new 2024 stuff we have seen floating round?

let them stay over that side of the pond.. PDS queues are starting to be annoying ; ) . In fact Morzine/les get, exploring nearby swiss parks, samoens area and may be aosta is a good road trip. just need the flight ticket ; )

yeah and funny how last spring people thought "may 2023" was a typo for the embargo on the 38 boxxer. They've been riding them for like two full seasons already?

A shitty render

Word on the street is Hayes has a new 220mm rotor

Anyone know when the new RS stuff will be released? I was surprised it wasn't yesterday with everything else. I "need" one of those new Vivid Airs.

They DID offer Cam a refund or warranty replacement (to the DH/Freeride spec) though! Cam is one of those customers that is impossible to please. And made it worse by publicising the entire thing as he went along. 5Dev are right to get rid of him and focus on sorting out their other customers. 5Dev should have handled it better but I believe in this particular instance Cam would've behaved like a self-entitled child anyway. As for the other instagram example that's been posted here, the person said "Andrew strikes again! I don't know a single soul that destroys more...

Aaron Gwin broke an e13 crank back in May 2019, which resulted in injury. Some selected quotes from the interview: “…those cranks were simply an old version and shouldn’t have been on his bike…E-thirteen had a conversation with me a little over a year ago about not running that version of cranks anymore due to inconsistencies they were seeing…For some reason, there was one pair left in my garage… It was definitely not my intention to run cranks that we weren’t supposed to, but again, that's on me and I should have been more on top it than I was…not...

"New" GT FURY... !? https://i.imgur.com/kT5GZxr.jpeg @ 02:08 Fun fact i told them some of my ideas probably two years ago... !

As if this is an indication of anything ? Have you ever seen a Commencal rider breaking his frame ? Or a Fox X2 blowing up ? Nope not on the WC circuit yet those are notorious to crack and brake like biscuits. Difference is, sponsored athletes can change crank, frame, shock every run if they consider it necessary so while this might give you info on the level of performance of a product it certainly won't give you any indication about the reliability of the product

Just having two pneumatic cylinders pushing and pulling on both cranks at the same time (cycling) would dp a lot for testing and wouldn't require much of a setup. And comparing it to cranks already on the market will give a good picture of where you're at. If for example you fail at 50 % the cycles a 100 USD crank fails at, well... Iterate?

Crank/Handlebar/Stem/Pedal are a few of the things I would not want to fail - ever. Particularly catastrophically. Just going to drop this here...

Nobody seems to care about all the IG posts of RaceFace carbon and sram xo carbon cranks failing. What customer support did those riders get? 5dev offered proper customer support. Of course the guy complained about the failure as most would but the offering from 5dev was more than adequate

Please let's just move on from the crank drama. I'm sure both sides have learned from the experience. It's Sea Otter now; let's see some spicy tech rumor shots