Yeah, I think the honestly largest improvements with steeper STA's has been that the ESTA while climbing under realistic suspension loads is finally back somewhere close to the same 73° that works elsewhere, and suddenly making our horribly inefficient 0.25hp meat-servo propulsion work that bit more efficiently transforms how well we can do technical climbing. Probably also why dual-link setups with intrusively high anti-squat values are also so popular, those don't make the problem any worse when just climbing up something steep and putting down power like 4-link and horst link setups will tend to.
March 29, 2021, 4:24 p.m. - Tehllama42
Yeah, I think the honestly largest improvements with steeper STA's has been that the ESTA while climbing under realistic suspension loads is finally back somewhere close to the same 73° that works elsewhere, and suddenly making our horribly inefficient 0.25hp meat-servo propulsion work that bit more efficiently transforms how well we can do technical climbing. Probably also why dual-link setups with intrusively high anti-squat values are also so popular, those don't make the problem any worse when just climbing up something steep and putting down power like 4-link and horst link setups will tend to.