"GCode is 2 in 1 MTB frame. Simple as that" Quote - pale sandy yellowish-brownbike.com
Looks as though it's taking a pale sandy yellowish-brown poop. ...but it's stuck
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The Upturn Dropper
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"GCode is 2 in 1 MTB frame. Simple as that" Quote - pale sandy yellowish-brownbike.com
Looks as though it's taking a pale sandy yellowish-brown poop. ...but it's stuck
No comprendo, what in the fuck are we looking at?
eh
Huh, didn't expect so many positive comments on Pink Bike.
We really are the grumpy old men of the bike world.
We really are the grumpy old men of the bike world.
'Definitely doesn't look like a Session™' is in comments somewhere. If not 8-12 year olds, at least we're consistent over here.
It's pretty interesting as a proof of concept. Answers the question "can a frame actively adapt to two different static geometries and linkage rotation limits?". Neat application of parametric design. Probably not real practical at the moment but still interesting.
As part of the RM user agreement we are contractually obligated to be outraged by every new product and prototype (especially prototypes) as though we are mandated to purchase it with our own money under punishment by death.
If people stopped trying new things we would all still be on 26" bikes with 800mm wheelbases and enough BB clearance to slowly ride over giant logs without hitting our fragile plastic bash guards like god intended.
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looks like there's room for a waterbottle between the swingarm in both iterations though!
False Premise: All giant logs are now cleared within two days of them falling. (I do miss that stuff, it is kind of a lost skill)
Just questioning what it is making this essential.
It was (is) this type of fervor which, for me about a decade ago, had proper gravel bike riding become appreciated and later - road riding. Where as - whatever it is this concept wishes to pretend to offer - anyone with the ability to shape materials into a frameset therefore has championed all types of trail and terrain and the bike's an instant 'game changer'. It's silly.
It was said this contraption is 'two bikes in one' meaning there's seemingly no middle ground. And, the host media site is willing to be jaded to the point of being in total agreement. I rarely am climbing on any trail without undulations and then also the same on a descent. I see no ability here other than for this thing to be making a stunt out of climbing and a stunt out of descending - there's no quality to the two riding types (a 'middle earth' I guess?) unless you have this exact type of terrain stashed away...
I'd gladly ride my 26" IHBC ride than something which potentially has no adaptability to it yet requires quantum mechanics to do a 200hr shock service.
It probably isn't anywhere near essential and it is a goofy implementation. But someone had an idea and made it real. Perhaps for them it works really well, perhaps it would work well for a lot of other folks. But people trying shit is how progress is made. I remember people laughing at dropper posts as another hite-right and doomed for failure. The road to progress is paved by people trying ideas even when the majority of those ideas fail. I can tell you this, blowjobs weren't invented because someone was just thinking inside the box.
I kind of get it though. I liked travel adjust forks like Fox Talas back in the day, being able to quickly adjust my head angle based on trail conditions. Better bike geometry reduced the need for that but one of the things I like about my Manitou Mezzer is I can go from 150mm to 180mm with nothing but a shock pump for rolling trails or the bike park. Sure Manitou doesn't say that is how it should be done, but it works.
Please, I prefer to think of myself as a man of the world!
Not just the bike world.
Weirdly no. It's Poland. A friend of mine is part of the project (not the engineer)