I hear you on absolute separation of interests. Fact is, we wouldn't have been able to do this without assistance from SRAM. We probably could have sourced two identical bikes, and then maybe convinced a third party suspension tuner to doctor us up two Zebs...but I don't think we would have gone to all of that trouble to prove something like this.
I had quite a few interesting conversations with Chris through this process. This sort of testing is something that they do internally all the time. It's probably obvious, but they have a whole internal program for testing all of the various iterations of products before they go to market. So, for him, this was really just recreating something that they do internally all of the time, and reproducing a result that they were pretty confident in.
Feb. 10, 2024, 11 a.m. - Dave Tolnai
I hear you on absolute separation of interests. Fact is, we wouldn't have been able to do this without assistance from SRAM. We probably could have sourced two identical bikes, and then maybe convinced a third party suspension tuner to doctor us up two Zebs...but I don't think we would have gone to all of that trouble to prove something like this. I had quite a few interesting conversations with Chris through this process. This sort of testing is something that they do internally all the time. It's probably obvious, but they have a whole internal program for testing all of the various iterations of products before they go to market. So, for him, this was really just recreating something that they do internally all of the time, and reproducing a result that they were pretty confident in.