Here comes e-cross...
This is what's wrong with The Industry™
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bike industry: "let's make bikes lighter!"
also bike industry: "let's make bikes heavier!"
fox is in this game as well.
http://www.ridefox.com/family.php?m=bike&family=36e
http://www.ridefox.com/family.php?m=bike&family=34e
Who cares what they call it, I'm into having a stiffer fork version available.
That is such a stupid design
Okay that's one bridge too far.
They do need to fix the offset on the 40 though, there's way too much.
I thought it looked like the first viable* replacement to a chain. Why do you think it's stupid?That is such a stupid design
P.S. Read the info on the project before saying something stupid.
*I would think that making the "cassette" laterally stiff enough would be a challenge but engineers are smarter than me.
My 2c Interesting idea, won't be practically executable without making bikes heavy.
If you think mine looks ridiculous, a friend of mine has one, only a size bigger and with 29 wheels stuffed in it. No 40 though.
one HUGE PROBLEM for suspension, unless concentric bb and you know, even Devin isn't using that anymore.
Chain growth. Or in driveshaft speak, axle plunge.
Yeah, going to be borderline impossible to make that work on a FS bike, especially in the multi-speed form.
I think it makes way more sense on a road bike, could be neat there.
Reasons I think this is stupid:
- Just looking at the area of the contact point between the drive shaft and the "rings" there's not enough area there to spread out the force of a strong dude standing on the pedals. Stuff is gonna snap and or just wear really fast.
- To quote the article "It requires an elevated chainstay, and therefore a custom frame. Should it make it into production, frame builders would be required to build the bike specifically for this"
- None of the videos show it shifting. By the looks of it shifting is going to be a big issue for this design and I suspect they haven't gotten it figured it out yet.
- In general drive shafts are heavier than chain drives so what you gain in efficiency you may just loose in weight.
- This will require high levels of precision manufacturing to work and therefore $$$$$$$$$$$$$$
Warning: I may myself be stupid, so these reasons could be stupid
I'm gonna get one to put on my regular old bike.
if only you could get the same performance out of chromeI'm gonna get one to put on my regular old bike.
At least that weight gain has some measure of functionality.
I'm not saying it's good.
I'm just saying, it's better than orange.
https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/Orange-Bikes-at-Eurobike-2018,2458
In other news, despite having other good tires available to copy for my entire riding career, WTB has still failed to put out a well designed tire, and still hasn't quite figured out what the side knobs are supposed to do or how they function while cornering. WTB lizards, if you're reading this, heres a protip: Look at what Maxxis was doing 15 years ago. Copy that. Literally make a replica of it. You'll be 15 years behind maxxis, but it'll still be orders of magnitude better than your newest offerings.
Anybody remember these?
I tried so damn hard to like them...
https://www.pinkbike.com/news/WTB-Weir-Wolf-tires-review-2008.html
I don't think the knob design really matters all that much, as long as there is some siping/hollow-ness. You could use like tiny little penises or something and it'd work just as well. The wierwolf just looked cool, especially in 2.5, that's why we bought it. And then we ripped the casing open a few days later.
I do like these maxxis icon 2.35s on my xc bike, they measure about 2.4 and are crazy fun. Tire casing is super-supple.
I do like these maxxis icon 2.35s on my xc bike, they measure about 2.4 and are crazy fun. Tire casing is super-supple.
Those were kind of a @Gary tyre that added “excitement” to every ride. Somehow had a pair on second bike for years and to their credit: at least they never gave the idea that they might be trusted in a corner like the 60a 26x2.3 minions of the same era.
I had them on a fire roads bike before I started mountain biking.
Ahh, the wonderful concrete lugs... You were bound to inherit those to your grandchildren!!
Rode those on a buddy's loaner bike once. Among the worst tires I've ever ridden.
They were strange... They would 'slice' you exactly where you didn't want to go when you leaned them over. I had assumed Mark weir rode them differently than you and I.
True statement.
that wtb nano that came with my bombtrack gravel bike runs pretty good on gravel
True, I've thousands of miles on Nano's, they last forever.