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TEAMROBOT Added a comment about feature BRAKE JACK DOESN'T EXIST!! Advice!! with Team Robot, March 2021
3/22/2021 9:16pm
Just6979, you perfectly described why the world’s fastest riders ride forks that are basically locked out, but still ride 30-40% rear sag like the rest of us. It’s not just that they like stiff suspension. Pros hate uncontrolled weight shift, but they love a loaded-up front tire that’s gripping when they brake.
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maximumradness Liked a comment about Feature BRAKE JACK DOESN'T EXIST!! Advice!! with Team Robot, March 2021
3/22/2021 9:03pm
The real issue here isn’t the squat, the rise, the geo or the tune::: It’s all the hammfisted fucks grabbing handfuls of brake on any bike, all the time, anywhere. Skids? Yes. Braking while riding tech in any way? No. It’s literally bad bike riding. I did it. It sucked. I stopped. It’s rad.
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TEAMROBOT Added a comment about feature BRAKE JACK DOESN'T EXIST!! Advice!! with Team Robot, March 2021
3/22/2021 5:48pm
I think you've accurately described the difference in ride feel between long and short bikes, but I don't think a 2017 bike is 2.5'' shorter in reach. That would mean a medium that's 460mm in 2021 would have been 397mm in 2017. That's not realistic. For instance, a large 2021 Santa Cruz Bronson has a 14mm longer reach than a 2017, with a front center that's 32mm longer. So it's better, but not mind-blowing.
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bizutch Liked a comment about Feature BRAKE JACK DOESN'T EXIST!! Advice!! with Team Robot, March 2021
3/22/2021 3:05pm
Remember when you could page Dave Weagle to the white courtesy phone and get a straight forward answer instantly?
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eldsvada Liked a comment about Feature BRAKE JACK DOESN'T EXIST!! Advice!! with Team Robot, March 2021
3/22/2021 1:15pm
Then you would be wrong, in more than one ways. As excellently explained by Lord 🤖. What your feeling is brake squat. Also, your suspension doesn't stop moving, but it gets more compressed compared to if you were not dragging the brake, as if you were running a stiffer spring. Fun fact, when Fabien Barrel rode for kona he ran the brake link reversed, to get more brake squat for steeper tracks.
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neil.carnegie.1 Liked a comment about Feature BRAKE JACK DOESN'T EXIST!! Advice!! with Team Robot, March 2021
3/22/2021 1:14pm
I would say you are feeling brake squat limiting suspension movement, but its not jacking it up, it's doing the opposite and pushing it into the travel under braking. The effect is like slightly firming the spring and slowing the rebound on a bike which generates a lot of squat while the brakes are on (I think). The positive trade off (at least on paper) is it should help to combat fork dive a bit. As others have pointed out, various people have won many DH world cups and Ews overalls on bikes which have large amounts of this trait...
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TEAMROBOT Added a new Feature BRAKE JACK DOESN'T EXIST!! Advice!! with Team Robot, March 2021
3/22/2021 10:09am
If you like new, shiny things or a good conspiracy that blames your bike for personal riding failures, then you may want to hit up our Bike Check section or Forum. MTB ADVICE!! with Team Robot #3 is...
CascadeComponents Liked a comment about Press Release Cascade Components Announces 2021 Stumpjumper EVO and Evil Insurgent Links
3/21/2021 11:57pm
No, but we will warranty your brake pads when you have to slow down from escape velocity. We have confirmed that you will reach escape velocity periodically so keeping that speed in check is critical to avoiding the most massive overshoot ever.
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TEAMROBOT Added a comment about press release Cascade Components Announces 2021 Stumpjumper EVO and Evil Insurgent Links
3/21/2021 9:06pm
Will you warranty my tires if I buy your link and ride extra fast and get flats? HAVE YOU TESTED FOR THAT?!?!
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Dave_Camp Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/21/2021 9:04pm
Interesting strategy- posting pictures well before embargos... Not the best way to keep getting prototype shocks 
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DontWorryAboutIt Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/21/2021 9:03pm
Julius, I'm mostly interested in the corn emoji's. Is the corn emoji the new eggplant? I must know.
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29 Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/21/2021 9:00pm
From the Beta print magazine apparently.
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TEAMROBOT Added a comment about video Vital RAW - Jack Reading and Dan Slack - A Typical UK Day!
3/21/2021 8:49pm
That looked like a properly good time. Was thinking about how hard-earned Jack's bike skills are from riding an Ellsworth Dare at the World Cup level. Respect.
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Vladimir Putin Liked a comment about Press Release CushCore Riders Crush The Rock
3/21/2021 7:03am
Tell me how much you love cushcore
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TEAMROBOT Added a comment about bike check 2000 Team Saracen X-ess
3/20/2021 11:08pm
This is the content we need
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Robert_Loughlin Liked a comment about bike check 2000 Team Saracen X-ess
3/20/2021 11:08pm
Thanks, I appreciate the compliment!
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Allen_Gleckner Liked a comment about Press Release Cascade Components Announces 2021 Stumpjumper EVO and Evil Insurgent Links
3/20/2021 10:40pm
FWIW Transition does not void the warranty if you use a Cascade Link.
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CascadeComponents Liked a comment about Press Release Cascade Components Announces 2021 Stumpjumper EVO and Evil Insurgent Links
3/20/2021 10:39pm
The old frames broke due to poor design/manufacturing. Factor of safety was much too low. They don't have that issue anymore. If you swap the link on a bike that's going to break anyway it will still break so not really a good example. In fact if you made it less progressive you'd break it even worse when the shock slammed into the bottom out bumper. Do we do mechanical testing? It would be wasteful to break frames just to do it since all you would learn is that you have to bottom out really hard to break it. You...
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Donald Trump Liked a comment about Press Release CushCore Riders Crush The Rock
3/20/2021 7:29pm
I'm sure it was the cushcore that got them the wins.
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Biketechspert Liked a comment about Press Release CushCore Riders Crush The Rock
3/20/2021 7:29pm
borrowed a friends bike for a bit and it had cushcore valves and i went for a ride with all the confidence that there was cushcore in it. i could feel immediately there was no cushcore in the tires and i ended up denting the rims kinda bad. all my bikes need cushcore always no more messed up rims way better traction way better ride feel
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