Hell yeah, not a bad effort for a private company.
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Hell yeah, not a bad effort for a private company.
You going to the Maydena one?
Not sure, I got a spot as a volley marshal/course sweep for the Trans NZ enduro and I think it clashes. If that doesn't work out, I'll come and drunken heckle at Hardline. You going?
What's right is there are still some industry jobs that fly you to Queenstown & Rotorua. Any Monkeys wanna ride Queenstown or Wanaka Jan 2-6? How about Rotorua or Raglan area Jan 21-26?
Trying to. Work in Nsw might interfere. Ill do the gravity fest and get on some Ciders for the hardline. Fingers crossed
Unfortunately I'm rostered on at work on those dates and can't get away from Wellington.
Vital RAW - World Cup Downhill from 2011
The bikes were still small, but getting a little longer. Edge (now known as ENVE) had carbon wheels on the Santa Cruz Syndicate bikes, Aaron Gwin was on Trek, Troy Lee Designs kits were loud, Labresse had heavenly grass turns and it sure feels like the race pace of the 2011 World Cup DH would be...
Made right by the caption on the link
Good thing I'm using my primitive 27.5 wheels as my excuse and that's not on their list.
Just watched. Man get off my lawn…its so much better back then. And i watched it live back then! But its better watching back then now. Doesnt make sense
Maybe its the loam and grass and more importantly running shorts still
Maybe its the loam and grass and more importantly running shorts still
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bryceland knows whats up!
Gotta keep that weed jar full.
It has said "sold out" for weeks, I don't think any have been sold/available yet.
This went out 2 days ago to the email "wait list";
What a Journey this has been
Are we there yet?
Let me first start by thanking you all for your tremendous support of our fork project. This has certainly taken far longer to complete than we had hoped.
So what happened? We showed the fork in April of 2023 and then you waited......and waited....and waited. Then, you waited some more.
In April while we were showing the fork to the world at the Sea Otter Classic, our talented manufacturing staff was back at HQ running full-speed ahead with our first production run. Development, destructive testing, chassis testing, dyno testing, and endless in-feild ride testing.....all completed over the previous 3 years.
Unfortunately, production delays out of our control began to arise. Raw material supply, various vendor components, and some of the very simple yet vital components started to run late. By July we had thousands of the most beautiful machined parts on the shelf ready to go, but sadly were still missing certain pieces to the puzzle.
We've felt frustration, confusion, and exhaustion as we've poured years of our work into what internally has been known as Project 9.1.
Today as I write this, I'm happy to report that nearly all of those frustrations are behind us. Below is a glimpse of the evolution of Project 9.1.... Product Nine.One.
Thank you again for your patience. I look forward to telling you all about it very soon,
Darren Murphy
PUSH Industries
Any mention of price
Why two sag o-rings on the fork?
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So you'll just cut one off...I was being slow.For LSC and HSC...
But seriously:
Pink or red, she has yet to decided.
one is to see how much travel you're getting and the other is to make sure it's topping out
when you get back from a ride, the bottom out one should be at the top and the topout one should be on the bottom. If this isn't happening you need to mail back the fork immediately
Can you start a genuine mis-information tuning/review media channel masquerading as genuine. Basically 180 degrees on everything now. *
*besides vorsprung
I used to talk to steve pretty regularly over getting him to try shit to fix existing garbage. Our repore was good enough that I think creating a channel that specifically targets stuff he does would be fucking hilarious. Talk down to him like a weagle, get a pissy back and forth going while being so obviously wrong you couldn't not laugh. He's the only person in suspension tuning with a sense of humor. He'd laugh his ass off, especially once he found out it was me.
In the latest Pinkbike podcast episode with Greg Minnaar, he said "Internal routing isn't good for racers. We need to have brakes ready and bled, ready to install quick if something happens. It's not time to mess with changing a lever and re-bleed the brake between runs, it's too stressful for racers and mechanics, we don't have time for that anymore, especially with the new format."
I will listen to the other episodes with him tonight, but he was very professionnal and enthusiastic about his move to Norco. He said nothing negative on the Syndicate, but he seemed a bit bitter about his last year with them.
I will listen to the other episodes with him tonight, but he was very professionnal and enthusiastic about his move to Norco. He said nothing negative on the Syndicate, but he seemed a bit bitter about his last year with them.
It kind of sounded like the team wasn't as on point as it could have been.
Kathy Sessler is back as well.
Sounds like he just needs brakes that work. I'm seeing shimano rotors on his old and new bikes, can't make out the detail of the caliper, but, ahem, if them are shimano brakes...well....
It's interesting to me that he hired Kathy Sessler. I'm in no way an insider, but I seem to remember some sort of gripes about her from the Syndicate camp a few years back. I think she exited around the time PON took over SC.
I thought it was more related to her husband being sick or passing away or something of that nature?
So basically he said what anyone who has done a race knows. You crash and then you need to replace a brake lever and you waste time. Even more annoying when you don't have a mechanic and you are wasting training time.
I'm one of the weird people who had relatively small problems with Shimanos (inconsistent bite) but had horrible experiences with Sram every time. My code R's fade like crazy and require insane squeezing.
Same. They have been great going back many years. I have 20yr old hubs still running great as a result.
The number of last minute fixes I've had to do before a race run is crazy. (@Udi - remember trying to force an unbeaded tyre back onto the rim - in the start gate - without letting out too much air to make it unrideable)
Any bike being sold as a "race-specific" bike shouldn't have stupid shit that makes it hard to swap brakes, shocks etc. That stuff is fine for influencer types that want uncluttered Insta bangers and carpark posing shots but not for anyone racing at any level.
I know we're still hating on Enduro (RIP EWS) but the amount of dodgy shit that gets done to keep a bike running is half the fun on the long events. So many good bodge stories.