I’d love to hear from a frame designer why they don’t go more progressive on more frames, I’m sure there’s a good reason. Is the average consumer more OK with bottoming hard than they are with using less than max travel? Is there a pedaling tradeoff? Carbon frames are so strong these days I’d guess bottoming hard isn’t a problem like it used to be.
I love my current bike, 2017 Transition Patrol with the Super Deluxe Avalanched, and it works great with 3 or 4 spacers in it. But every fully I’ve ever owned, except a Devinci Spartan from a few years ago, needed close to max spacers. The Devinci only needed 1-2, and it felt wonderfully bottomless. All my (admittedly crappy) DH bikes bottomed somewhat easily running coils.
I break shit all the time, so it could be just me being a mega-hack. But I’m not so sure. My smoother and smaller friends also always run spacers. That said, trying to make a single linkage work for a mellow 100 lb rider to a 220 lb pinner can’t be easy.
More just curiosity and some serious bike nerdery than anything. I’ve said it many times, bikes these days are so, so good.
July 8, 2019, 11:27 p.m. - JVP
I’d love to hear from a frame designer why they don’t go more progressive on more frames, I’m sure there’s a good reason. Is the average consumer more OK with bottoming hard than they are with using less than max travel? Is there a pedaling tradeoff? Carbon frames are so strong these days I’d guess bottoming hard isn’t a problem like it used to be. I love my current bike, 2017 Transition Patrol with the Super Deluxe Avalanched, and it works great with 3 or 4 spacers in it. But every fully I’ve ever owned, except a Devinci Spartan from a few years ago, needed close to max spacers. The Devinci only needed 1-2, and it felt wonderfully bottomless. All my (admittedly crappy) DH bikes bottomed somewhat easily running coils. I break shit all the time, so it could be just me being a mega-hack. But I’m not so sure. My smoother and smaller friends also always run spacers. That said, trying to make a single linkage work for a mellow 100 lb rider to a 220 lb pinner can’t be easy. More just curiosity and some serious bike nerdery than anything. I’ve said it many times, bikes these days are so, so good.