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Sorry, *the switch to the smaller 200mm rotors helped the power roll on instead of hit all at once. I accidentally wrote 220. Making the switch helped a ton with being able to use varying levels of lever input. With the 220 up front, the slightest touch seemed to nearly lock up the wheel. I normally run Code Ultimates and will likely switch back for what I feel like is a more usable range of power for a trail bike. These brakes will be going on my Enduro and Downhill bikes where I feel like the power is more applicable...

They're placed in a category above the Codes, but the Codes will still exist. The switch to smaller rotors was more for allowing the power to roll on rather than hit all at once. The front wheel was starting to tuck into turns because the wheel would lock up so easily; it was pretty difficult to get any kind of modulation.

Thanks for all your help, I had an awesome weekend with no arm pump and a bike riding just fine! Thanks again!

My one piece of advice for most riders to make their bikes less tiring and more forgiving is to speed up your rebound. Most mountain bikers run their rebound way too slow because they want to make the bike feel stable and predictable in the car park, but that means the suspension isn't able to move freely on trail. If your rebound is too slow, especially on your fork, your suspension will pack down into the harder part of the spring curve and beat up your hands and legs. Find a rougher track and open your rebound 3 clicks on...

This is a good synopsis of "how did we get here" if anyone doesn't want to parse through a bunch of other posts. I think the fun part is to look to the future being I can broadly agree with Dave's recap (few quibbles, but not important for this conversation). Here are the keys to consider when peering into your crystal ball/magic 8 ball. 1) Mountain biking went through a phase of increased demand during COVID. This demand is better thought as "pulling future demand to the present". This means higher than average demand was followed by lower than average...

Been to Snowshoe for the last two WC DHs, and my legs know from hiking up and down there that it certainly isn't flat, but all the racers there rank it as one of the 'flatter' courses, as there's lots of pedally sections (makes Loris ever so tired!). Certainly not the smoothest (Andorra), but it could possibly tie Les Gets as the roughest for rocks (well, maybe not this year's dirt inilled Les Gets). Rode Whiteface back in the 90's and it definitely has the elevation, rocks, roots, etc. to set the stage for a great DH WC, but we'll...

Listen guy. I can tell you've never been to Snowshoe. It's not flat in the slightest. It's 1430 feet of elevation drop in a mile and a half. It's freaking HARD to race. There is room to have a better World Cup track there. But it's not mandatory. DH World Cup racers putting in a 5-8 second sprint just above the Wild Zone is NOTHING. The sprint isn't even on flat ground. Vouilloz would laugh at it. SnowShoe is HARD. Benoit falling on flat ground breaking his scaphoid had nothing to do with the track. He put his hand out...

The woke clown posse are always offended at every level of discourse. So going straight to clown reference just cuts out a lot of the back and forth and outs all the clowns. So, kind of surprising. My test email is now up to 92% negative feedback. Which exceeds even PB at its worst. Difference is that management hasn't chimed in and aggressively censored......yet. Have all the normal riders with actual brains bought E-bikes and moved on from MTB's? Pretty much all I see is E-bikes now. Damn, I was trying to remain pure.

Clowns confirmed. LMFAO!!

I tried to give you a thumbs up just now but apparently I already did. My goal is to not have to make Spomer monitor and delete my posts. So....I'm gonna go edit a post real quick. Be right back.

From the negative count "thumb downs" on my post me thinks some of the woke clowns from PB have ended up here. Does not seem promising for VitalMTB if true.

My pb account was banned for a year on the last UCI rule change article around trans-women. I used the phrase "men-living-as-women", trying to balance accuracy without being incendiary. I haven't been back.

PB going away is sweet to me. After getting attacked and banned for just contrary opinions. They define the term Go Woke, Go Broke. Hilarious.

If you've never been to Snowshoe...there are more trees than rocks. You'd go broke trying to pad everything. None of the rocks are padded. Riders are padded. Elbows. Backs. Brains. Shins. Knees. I've never been bothered by trees not having pads. Lung puncturing dead fall on the downslope is my phobia though.

junior DH practice for you superfans (still may be in SD, processing on youtube now)

snowshoe pit bits vid is on our youtube channel unlisted (we just posted the US Open race recap, so waiting a bit to make it live there), but you hardcores can peep it now. missy giove sighting inside : )

So run an Ohlins? Their 3 chamber air allows you to adjust the end stroke ramp. Not getting full travel? Back off the end stroke ramp air pressure. Need more bottom out support? Add air. They have a three click HCS system that doesn't use spring pre-load on the shim stack (they use an oval shim). Do you like very firm compression? Have the TTX18 re-shimmed from their documented shim bank. Lighter rider and like less compression? Their shim bank has that covered. With their shim bank you don't need to rely on guessing or some guru's claimed magic, it's...

I’m not hung up on “trying to bottom out” and I think the fork is great but you can feel it ramping up from mid to 155mm where I’m stopping my travel. I’ve even forcefully lifted and slammed the front into on coming roller faces to try and max out. I think they did a great job with the initial travel and hold up and forks rigidity. In stock form I think it’s a near perfect for bike park set up but not the best on chunky trails. I ordered the TruTune last night which sounds like it negates “volume...

The reason most pros are running the stumpjumper over enduro is because the enduro isn't UDH and can't use sram transmission.