Thank you guys so much! It’s been a crazy journey. Excited to catch up with you in a couple weeks for a podcast Spomer! Hopefully I can share a little more about the emotional side of this whole ordeal. I think there has been some confusion on my “stance” about the whole thing and I’m excited to clear that up as well. At the end of the day I’m just grateful to get a second chance at life and be able to get back on two wheels. It was really scary for a while there but it’s been great to...
Corrected for you: those changes would be SEVERAL huge press releases from Rockshox along with all sorts of new buzzwords AND ACRONYMS. spread over 12 months (minimum).
DVO has made improvements to the Onyx SC, more running changes than anything. New lower casting, bushings, coating on stanchions, air piston, damper seal head, compression tune… enough that I’m surprised they have been so quiet about it.
Since they're on the above bikes, has anyone heard anything from DVO lately? They really seemed to drop off the map after the year Giant picked them up and seemed to be fading slightly before that as well. Maybe it's just in Canada but they seem to have pulled an X-fusion and just completely vanished here in the north.
Must.... not....lust.... for cannondale...... but I must I'm glad they're figuring it out. While I appreciated their bikes for the outside the box approach, it also made it hard to explain to customers why we couldn't work on their bike because we couldn't get parts and there was no cannondale dealer near by or help people doing race support because regular parts didn't work on their bike.
If I remember correctly from the launch, the Dissector was meant as a DH/gravity rear tyre or a front (light) trail tyre with something even less aggressive than the Aggressor on the rear.
I think it was originally billed as a front and rear option when it was rolled out, but then people eventually just relegated it to rear tire/braking duty.
This is really only true in SoCal and the SF Bay Area. Other parts of California treat MTB riders like proper stewards of the land. Where I live, near the Sierra National Forest, we have an MTB club that actively maintains a huge trail network on national forest lands (with permission from USFS), and we were granted access to private property owned by Southern California Edison (utility provider) to build a massive network of legit DH trails like this one...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJOFmHEzsds&t=371s. SCE literally gave us our own keys to the gate and allowed moto access to quickly reach trail work areas...
You mean the one place in Laguna that tickets riders? Yeah, Laguna is lame like that. I don't like that city at all. But there are a million options to MTB in SoCal and they are either legal or they are pirate trails where you really don't have to worry about a park ranger. That Laguna one just gets a lot of "press" because it has access to some great trails and people willing go to it (avoiding all the other great places to ride) and then have a cry on social media about how they got caught. I dunno...