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Except when he's doing the BC Bike Race and screaming track at riders and telling them to "get outta my way" and "pull over now" when they're still 40 metres in front of him....
I'm not saying the Patrol is poorly designed. I do believe it was designed with an air shock in mind.
Air shocks are super uncool now, because all the pros run PUSH coils.
Air shocks are super uncool now, because all the pros run PUSH coils.
Man... they had better NOT be discontinuing the Wild Rock'R2. 
Say what?! For realz?
Can't find it on the website anymore. Get your pitchforks.Man... they had better NOT be discontinuing the Wild Rock'R2.
Check out his BC Bike Race vids. Fair enough he trained hard and wanted to do well but geez.
maybe next to the tiki torches in charlottesville?
Looks like they may have just changed the name. Crisis averted?
Where you getting that? I can't find anything that looks like them on their website, but their website is about as readable as Charlie Manson's prison diary.
Srsly. Their website is a crime against nature.
MICHELIN ROCK'R2 ENDURO
MICHELIN ROCK'R2 ENDURO. Defy hard, rocky terrain with maximum grip and strength
Praise jeebus.
Even better if they have stickier rubber now. The old ones were pretty hard.
Are you serious? I rode the harder ones as a front tire.
I couldn't even pedal out of the parking lot with the soft ones. Bike just stuck there.
I couldn't even pedal out of the parking lot with the soft ones. Bike just stuck there.
Yeah, totally. I've got two of the soft ones in my basement right now. They're clearly harder than even a MaxxTerra 3C. Both finger squish and actual ASTM Shore A durometer tester, which I have because nerd.
Either mine are super fucked somehow, or you got your hands on some crazy team only special stickiness or something.
Your world is not in my universe. I can't relate to the things you're saying at all.
Besides the bite test, you did ride them right? And you know that gum-X is the hard one and magi-X is the soft one?
Their naming convention is as useful as their website
Besides the bite test, you did ride them right? And you know that gum-X is the hard one and magi-X is the soft one?
Their naming convention is as useful as their website
Did you grill them?
Defy hard, rocky terrain with maximum grip and strength
I bought like 4 of the very first generation and the magi x ones gripped on grease.
I wonder if something changed. Specialized done fucked up their gripton stuff in under a year.
I wonder if something changed. Specialized done fucked up their gripton stuff in under a year.
It would be completely expected, ya know? "Yeah - this stuff is still called MagiX compound, but is *completely* different than the previous MagiX."
If I have learned something from playing uncountable hours of AD&D is that magic isn't an exact science. So I guess a certain amount of variability within the rubber compound is expectable.It would be completely expected, ya know? "Yeah - this stuff is still called MagiX compound, but is *completely* different than the previous MagiX."
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A coil would help that by allowing a firmer earlier spring rate that won't ramp up and become too firm late in the travel. Switching my progressive Capra frame to coil allowed me to run less sag.
Wait, these traits are opposite in my experience. Linear bikes ride higher in the travel except when encountering hard hits. Progressive bikes ride lower in the travel because the early part is softer. That's why my XC bike is linear and my enduro bike is progressive.
The transition paradox: the linear bike that sinks in its travel, fully active braking that stiffens for turns, slack angles that climb, externally mounted internal cables, linkage design, but single pivot shock.
I'll let someone who knows suspension design and the #s on this frame to speak up if they want.
I'm using layman's terms to describe a bike that has a reputation for using a lot of travel and bottoming pretty easily, even with an air shock.
I'm using layman's terms to describe a bike that has a reputation for using a lot of travel and bottoming pretty easily, even with an air shock.
This new item (higher priced version) implies that Gum X RockR2 may now be available.
www.chainreactioncycles.com
Or it could also be just a fucked up product listing.
CRC has the normal version of this tire too for $50.
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Or it could also be just a fucked up product listing.
CRC has the normal version of this tire too for $50.
It would be completely expected, ya know? "Yeah - this stuff is still called MagiX compound, but is *completely* different than the previous MagiX."
It's too bad Michelin won't just make the Rock'R2 in multiple widths, compounds, and casings. Fucking lizards.
crc has a pair, one magix, one gumx, for 85$ right now. not sure what casing strength.
You should try the E13 TRS+ as a front tire.
That guy doesn't look capable of catching anyone. Certainly not on a descent at least.
Have you seen the field at the BC Bike Race?
I ordered 3 for cheap from chain reaction about two months ago. They're still sitting in cryogenic chamber though, haven't ridden them yet.