Chainstay lengthening on my current gen Norco Shore doesn't cause a noticeable issue when climbing, only the weight/travel do. It's not as extreme of a rearward axle path as a lot of other designs, ~13mm of growth.
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Hell yeah. That’s a good looking rig. https://m.pinkbike.com/news/first-look-airdrop-release-a-275-slacker.html
still bums me out that bike never made it to production. how much longer until the patent expires?
sinister 'passion'
http://sinisterbikes.typepad.com/sinister_bikes/2006/09/our_passion.html
ridemonkey.bikemag.com
Looks flexysinister 'passion'
http://sinisterbikes.typepad.com/sinister_bikes/2006/09/our_passion.html
blasphemyLooks flexy
Looks like an old Commencal had a fling with something using a Lawwill rear end.sinister 'passion'
http://sinisterbikes.typepad.com/sinister_bikes/2006/09/our_passion.html
My old sinister R9 was still one of my favorite dh bikes of all time, wish I never sold it- dumped it when old Brad at Nemesis promised me a dh frame and had to buy the ed hardy Demo 7 version right before moving to whistler for the summer. R9+avy was unstoppable.
my buddy's f-bomb was pretty damn dope
Broooooo, linkage activated single pivot isn’t a Lawill rear end, at all, yeah?
Somewhere out there is my old R9, with an avy cart in a coil 35mm boxxer and a real firm tuned avalanche dhs, driven by a custom short shockstay to drop the bb and slacken out the headtube(65 hta with an 8” fork and 10”
of rear travel isn’t exactly slack, but...) it last spotted on a bikepath in western ma.
Such an epic, epic, epically balanced race bike by the time Frank moved on to the F-series.
Sorta want
Meh, until the cables go through the fork stanchions and then the headtube, I'll pass.
Quite close to a Gambler as well, isn't it ? Just a bit longer
It was so so good seeing 5? frameworks bikes on the shuttle at the same time at Rock Creek yesterday, especially knowing Neko and Logan are in Ecuador right now racin’.
I watched a RAAW fall off the shuttle trailer yesterday, and used that as an opportunity to take an up close look. The Madonna is definitely dope looking, but not as dope as seeing Eastcoast built race bikes out in numbers again at a local bikepark.
I watched a RAAW fall off the shuttle trailer yesterday, and used that as an opportunity to take an up close look. The Madonna is definitely dope looking, but not as dope as seeing Eastcoast built race bikes out in numbers again at a local bikepark.
That’s sick! 5 bikes, wow.
@Happymtb.fr Longer, less progressive and maybe a tit hair more AS. They’re both very adjustable though.
It’s dope seeing the repaired early protos out there getting beat on by kids we have all watched grow up racing Downhill Southeast.
Awesome!
Same. Don't really care for the switch to a non-trunnion shock either - that thing is gonna eat upper shock Igus bushings. Sick looking bike otherwise.
Suspension has no place as a structural component on a bike. It will never work.
Bike designers should have learned a lesson from the automotive industry with the abject failure of the Macpherson strut.
Bike designers should have learned a lesson from the automotive industry with the abject failure of the Macpherson strut.
Double wishbone FTW.
I've had 5 bikes from 2 different manufacturers with trunnion mount shocks and zero issues. I'll take a brand that can make straight frames - not saying that Transition can't, every other bike they make but the Spur has a trunnion shock.
I've had frames that ate bushings monthly and shocks yearly. Execution is usually more important than specific design decisions. Unfortunately execution is hard to measure on the internet, but that never stopped anyone from making conclusions.
you actually can
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No issue with IS headsets here, but my bikes are slack enough without an angle set, too.
Sort of, those things use EC bottom cups, so if you don't want to jack up your front end you need to reduce travel.you actually can
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That's too convoluted to be called a real solution. I helped a friend install one of those in a Santa Cruz Hightower and I still think it'd be easier to just hacksaw the front of the frame and glue it again.you actually can
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Not sure how much that adds to the stack, but slackening the HA 1.5 degrees will lower the front end about 6mm so having some added stack is required to keep things the same.
My Sentinel 1 had trunnion and was fine. Smuggler 1 was eyelet and fine. My GG is eyelet and has heavy wear on the sides of the bushings. Hasn't smoked the shock yet, but it's an EXT with a pretty burly shaft.
My point is that you can get frames with shitty alignment from supposedly reputable manufacturers, and it's far cheaper to replace an eyelet bushing than a whole shock. I wouldn't NOT buy a bike with trunnion, but I'd prefer they don't.
Which is worse? Trunion or a shock extender?
All shocks are put into some kind of buckling load. Air shocks have extra support from the air can. Where are the people bitching about coil shock reliability?