I mean, it's great to see attempts at progress for bike technology... But linkage forks were attempted and abandoned decades ago on motorcycles, and the very minor downsides to telescopic forks can be overcome with proper setup and geometry. If the Suspension Lord Himself DW can't manage to get the industry on linkage front suspension, I don't see many other attempts working out either. Maybe I'll be proven wrong and a suspension breakthrough will bring us a bike that handles better and costs the same or less than our current telescopic suspension fork bolted onto a carbon suspension frame... But I'm not holding my breath, and I'm 100% happy staying on my current bikes with their "conventional" suspension technology.
July 24, 2020, 9:15 a.m. - Pnwpedal
I mean, it's great to see attempts at progress for bike technology... But linkage forks were attempted and abandoned decades ago on motorcycles, and the very minor downsides to telescopic forks can be overcome with proper setup and geometry. If the Suspension Lord Himself DW can't manage to get the industry on linkage front suspension, I don't see many other attempts working out either. Maybe I'll be proven wrong and a suspension breakthrough will bring us a bike that handles better and costs the same or less than our current telescopic suspension fork bolted onto a carbon suspension frame... But I'm not holding my breath, and I'm 100% happy staying on my current bikes with their "conventional" suspension technology.