Already covered by elsewhere.
of all my mountain bikes my DH bike has the lowest engagement.First everybody buys the super high engagement hubs and then tries to offset the effect by buying more expensive stuff??? Alright then....
I've never ridden one and am not about to buy one, but I don't think the idea is categorically stupid. Sure, if you're not running a billion POE hub your *average* pedal kickback is going to be mitigated by the hub engagement, but that's just the average. If you've got a 36 POE hub (i.e., 10°) the average degrees of rotation before the freehub catches is going to be 5°, but sometimes you'll hit a bump when the hub just caught and it'll be basically 0° and other times you'll get 10°. Most of the time it'll be somewhere in the middle. Ochain gives you consistent decoupling. I don't think it'll be a total game-changer, but I can see it making more than zero difference.
Okay, interesting. I was thinking about it a little more static than that, but it makes sense that you'd need to not only move through whatever hub engagement gap there is, but also catch up with the forward motion of the wheel. I don't actually have the best sense of what a realistic upper limit for a shock shaft speed is to do the math on it, but don't doubt that Vorsprung does. I'll look up the video.
Not a good reason not to sell them one.I've also heard a few Ebikers complain O-chain don't make one to fit their Ebike cranks yet... y'know those cranks that already have a freewheel mechanism built into the spider
Like Olympians cupping to draw out toxins an roadies removing grease from bearings to save weight while still wearing gold chains around their necks.
You mean by Ochain giving their product to high profile DH racers free?
Maybe it was pawls in the hubs. Either way going to extremes for .000001% gains while wearing voodoo talismans made from heavy metals.
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definitely not because they came out with a tire that didn't suck.
onyx vesper hubs are available for DH.
The Highroller wasn't actually any better a tyre than the Comp16 that it killed off in just one year.
I got downvoted at PB for stating the obvious, if you give your shit for free to the riders you're basically sponsoring them, and riders don't always use what's best for their performance, but also what's best for their pockets.
Oh I thought they ran Kenda tyres because they liked the socks on linoleum feel
I had one of those laying around for years that I stuck on a bike and rode.
In regards to this point, at the level WC riders are at, they're looking for every advantage they can get. Even if there's no measurable empirical benefit the riders may just think its helping. At that level a mental advantage is still an advantage.
I'd rather ride a bare rim than a nevegel
Shhhh you said the quiet part out loud
Well, yeah, but forward speed (assuming the rear wheel is rolling) is one way to indirectly think about the "how much does the hub" rotate part.
Well, there was this company not so long ago selling Power Balances for bikes... Vital featured them on every single pit bit for several years...
more importantly how much would you pay me for a product that claims to make sure it's negated, whether it's a thing or not?
