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Hey I’ve been cruising through this thread and just at first glance it seems pretty technical. I love doing bike setup for myself and friends, is telemetry pretty easy to understand once you’ve actually got your own data, or do you need to have a technical background to actually get any use out it? Looking to pick myself up a new toy.

I think it's just a byproduct of going to a monotube with a shimmed base valve, less adjustment range than a twin-tube. The base valve needs to be matched properly with the main piston tunes. New aftermarket 26/27 DHX2 comes with CL70 compression tune, which is middle of the road. Most of the factory OE tunes I have seen seem to be softer. You can definitely feel more oil moving through the system, than the older twin tube DHX2.

So I spoke with one of our better local tuners and he kept mentioning the BYB position velocity graph so here it is. I am yet to understand how to properly read into it, I have been looking mostly into the Damping pyramid so far. I agree with @TheSuspensionLabNZ that the BYB traces can be very hard to read, so I added the option to show it as a heatmap too I also added video support that syncs with the telemetry timeline. This was super important to me and I bought my first ever action cam for it! Especially on...

I wish it was something that made sense to do. The reality is there aren't that many DH bikes out there. To be able to distribute the development costs enough to have a reasonably priced product we'd need pretty much everyone who owns a new Demo to buy something. It would be a fun project no doubt though.

Seems to me like if the squealing is coming from painted backs, you'd be best off sanding off the paint, rather than putting grease anywhere near the pads where it could cause contamination.

I can assure you that the momentum of your lever has nothing to do with it.

The original post feels like a prank because there is no front tire with more consistent grip than the Assegai because it was specifically designed to eliminate the dead zone between the center grip and the side knobs. Before the Assegai, the primary Maxxis DH front tires were either the DHF, DHR2, or the High Roller 2, each of which featured a large gap between the side knobs and center knobs. As others have mentioned, it's that gap that creates the "dead zone" between hooking and sliding on the DHR2 and High Roller 2, and especially on the DHF. In...

they have an hour for 121 elite men and an hour for 119 juniors to qualify? how is that possible? they'd have to be precision perfect with 30 second drops and not a single crash, flag, hiccup etc). is it always this tight? i've never paid attention to the allotted times for quali. at least elite women have 30 mins for 38 women.

Could be wrong, but I feel like the market is driven by what faster (or perceived to be faster) and in more and more cases MX is faster even for XL riders though. I remember when Minnaar first went to Norco there was some pushback from him to go MX but after a couple timed laps the choice was pretty obvious. Just one case but I think it was in a Vital Pits a while back.

The Chris King crew were my booth neighbors at NW Tune-Up this past weekend and had some good chats with them. Turns out they have a mad scientist on staff who actually formulated and makes their own grease, it's not just white labeled stuff. Pretty cool.

Haha! Well, I'm certainly an average guy (or below,) but I feel like I can put a little more push into the front wheel with DHFs and they'll push back. The Assegai just feels like it has a limit and that's it. To me, anyway. Keep in mind I ride on dry, hard terrain 99.9% of the time. I think it's the soft compound that helps more than anything. I'm on a Magic Mary up front on my new bike and I don't like it much at all. I'm going to F around at the bike park this summer and...