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TEAMROBOT Added a reply to Tire casings and poor line choice
3/7/2022 4:11pm Nothing is available in a harder compound DH sidewall 27.5 from Maxxis, and the TB96800100 29" tire is as rare as rocking horse shit. I know it's kind of a niche product, but I also think Maxxis knows that Maxxgrip tires get replaced more often and they're not in a hurry to make our tires more durable. BTW, responding to...
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metadave Liked a reply to forum topic Tire casings and poor line choice
3/7/2022 12:52pm
Just to clarify, are you talking punctures at the tread/sidewall or seperation pinches at the sidewall/bead. Maybe I should have clarified better just in case it's the later, 95% of this issue is pinching the tire sidewalls at the bead/sidewall/rim area. I've had a couple flats bad enough where I've also affected (double flatted) the upper side wall/thread area at the same time as the bead/rim line but the main issue is definitely causing the base of the sidewall to be cut at the rim in all cases listed above. Also, thanks to everyone to all the responses so far...
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TEAMROBOT Added a comment about bike check Transition TransAM 26'er
3/7/2022 12:45pm
Super cool spare parts bike. Jealous
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yzedf Liked a reply to forum topic Tire casings and poor line choice
3/5/2022 4:50pm
For a Maxxis tire I will only run dh casing. Double down is just stronger sidewalls and my issue has always been rocks piercing through. Cush Core obviously doesn’t help with that. Now that I’m running different tires, I’m having almost no flats even though I’m on 2.4 trail casings that are ~300 grams lighter per tire. The real giveaway was only needing 1-2psi more than I was on the Maxxis dh stuff (talking wt 2.5 or 2.4 here).
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Varaxis Liked a reply to forum topic Tire casings and poor line choice
3/5/2022 4:49pm
Yep, it's the 120 tpi fabric Maxxis uses in EXO and DD. It's a supple, but not so durable casing. They just announced that EXO+ will use 60 tpi fabric. I switched to Schwalbe SG tires, since I couldn't sustain the tire replacement costs, and the casing felt like a stiff combat boot compared to a supple Maxxis trail running shoe kind of feel. Thankfully, the tire seems to break in and feel more compliant. I still seem to get hit-or-miss quality from Schwalbe, though, with ripped off side knobs and an occasional tire with "herpes". Stan's Dart came to...
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brash Liked a reply to forum topic Tire casings and poor line choice
3/5/2022 4:49pm
double down and 28psi is the ticket for my fat ass. I ditched cuschore this year just to see if I could notice the difference, so far my FR560 is straight and dent free. You don't realize how much a cuschore saves your wheels until you take it off, it looks like a rat has been chewing on it, supposedly every nibble is a rim strike of sorts!
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3/5/2022 3:07pm
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TEAMROBOT Added a reply to Tire casings and poor line choice
3/5/2022 12:31pm I went from getting flats or killing rims once a month to no flats and the same wheels for almost three years. Downhill tires and Cushcore are worth the weight to me. I run a Cushcore XC in my front tire and I run the big guy in the back. Priceless. I got used to the increased weight pretty quickly...
bulletbass man Liked a reply to forum topic Tire casings and poor line choice
3/5/2022 12:24pm
I get the fear of tire weight. But you either need to be slower on the climbs/flats or ride slower on the downs. Or have the skills/decision making to protect your equipment. There just isn’t getting around it if you aren’t flatting due to a specific piece of bad equipment. I ride dh tires in my hardtail and dd on my spire. Cushcore xc upfront and pro in rear. I ride 30 plus psi in the rear on the hardtail If I’m going anywhere With a lot of rocks. At my budget with my riding style/skill there is no reason...
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C-LION Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/5/2022 12:10pm
Here it is….the new, updated version of the Commencal Supreme DH. 
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TomJones Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/5/2022 12:09pm
Man, How cool would it be to see Intense just come out with a line of high quality aluminum, Horst Pivot, made in Cali bikes? Bring them back to their roots. Ditch the carbon, get back to what made them great back in the day
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mtbman99 Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/5/2022 12:08pm
Never said anything about VPP being slow or issues with it's performance. I'm suggesting that Intense was struggling with the implementation. It could be money, it could be their engineers, it could be Gwin. Neko left and is making a high pivot bike horst link bike and intense are developing a similar design or so it seems. Simple and easy to engineer and make changes that are easy to quantify.
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Sonofbovril2 Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/3/2022 10:56am
The irony is, if you know what you are doing, you can make a Dual Link/VPP design do whatever you want it to do, so the fact that INTENSE has abandoned their VPP design ethos to achieve what gwin is looking for... you can draw your own conclusions. In fairness, they did do various other designs before VPP came along.
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nskerb Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/2/2022 5:29pm
I’m sure (I hope) that the people running intense are smarter than me. But it seems they are going down a very stupid path: Build a 29” DH bike in a rush. Throw a billion dollars at Gwin. Decide the bike isn’t that good and completely re-design. Only let Gwin ride it. Proto an enduro bike modeled after it, no announcements for months. Produce a carbon mold, let outlets test it without releasing any #’s. Months later still no news. Decide that your proto DH bike sucks and copy a trek (potentially the only smart decision they’ve made) Be stuck...
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MrDuck Liked a comment about Press Release e*Thirteen Launches the Quick Fill Plasma Valve
3/2/2022 3:30pm
Good looking solution, but still inferior to schrader. Why is the bike industry trying so hard to reinvent the wheel?
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taldfind Liked a comment about Press Release 2022 Intense Primer and Sniper Mountain Bikes
3/1/2022 9:58pm
Pepperidge Farm remembers...
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dirty Liked a comment about Press Release Pivot Cycles Launches the All-New Shadowcat
3/1/2022 4:57pm
I may be wrong but it seems like dual 27.5" options are being offered less and less, especially in the mid-travel market. I'm stoked to see this bike, looks dope. Dig the 148 rear spacing too. Wish it was threaded BB but ya can't win them all.
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Primoz Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/1/2022 11:24am
With arches moving forwards to clear the thicker (and angle adjustable) headtubes, I don't see a way towards rear arches. Sure, you can offset them further back which will add torsional stiffness using the same amount of material (thus weight), but I guess downtube clearance becomes a problem then. Maybe I'm wrong but I don't see a mass change to rear arches in the future.
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Brian_Peterson Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/1/2022 11:18am
Maybe we are now seeing that there's not enough sales of DH bikes to justify the cost of making molds for a carbon frame? Especially for a minimal gain in performance...
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jonkranked Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/1/2022 11:18am
IMO the shape/form and finish on those tubes is way too good for a test mule that would get converted to carbon. especially when you consider that bigger companies like trek and spesh have moved back to aluminum from carbon for their DH bikes
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