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Oh awesome! I'll be contacting you soon. Cheers

Agree!!!

I looooove my Storia! Now if EXT could get a service center in the gvrd that would be great...

Procore is a heavier system for sure but I wonder how one of those 80g Tubolito tubes would work with it? Knock off 100g per wheel I would think?

Yeah the US site says October but that cant be right. Maybe is though who knows with this industry.

Any idea when the bikes/frame will be available?

When you hit something and the rim deflects, the lower spokes lose tension yes. What does the shape of the rim do though? It ovalizes, the spokes at 9 and 3 o'clock actually see an increase in tension, I would guess more so than the spokes at 12 o'clock. These rims sound like they're uber compliant though so maybe there's a very little increase in ovalizing?

I'm running dual CC. WR1 Agents with Minion WT tires.  If I had to choose between running only one it would be on the front. The reason being even with CC on the back, if I run lower pressures the tire still squirms in hard corners. It doesn't burp thanks to CC but it does squirm so I run normal pressures anyway. The lower psi in the front feels amazing in my hands though and it's definatly more about the ride quality instead of rim protection.

The Revive is the WAO answer to the cx/xc market

Some guy rpped by me on an Ebike today as we were climbing up the road. All I could think about was how shitty of a time he must have trying to ride that 60 pound bike down the trails. I don't see the benefit of them but if people are happy to lug them around then so be it.

I ride Burke regularly myself. I would of thought the sign at the gun club/yellow gate clearly showing no motorized vehicles would of been clear enough. Guess not.

The irony in the fact that the trail builders on Burke have ebikes is not lost on you it seems.

Years ago I was invited to a friend of a friends house party. I had never been to the house but had directions. Anyway I show up and hear everyone inside so I just walk in. I walk up the stairs into the kitchen and put my beers in the fridge and walk out onto the deck where everyone was. Yup, wrong house and the poor people were sitting on the back deck drinking wine lol. The house party was in the house that backed onto theirs one street over. Anyway I apologized and the couple actually thought it was hilarious. 

Fast forward a couple years and I'm talking to a guy at work about guns. He tells me he wishes he lived in the states so that if someone broke into his house he could blow their head off. Justice served etc. That got me thinking about that couple and how a case of me making a simple mistake could have cost me my life at the hands of a murder hungry redneck. 

The gun culture down there scares the shit out of me.

Posted by: Kenny

May be unoriginal but I just run 31.8 alloy Renthal, like gawd intended. :)

What's that?

No mention of the WR1 DaPackage? 33mm for compliance in a sleeve to make it 35mm. Light and made in Canada, worth a look imo

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They are doing one. If it's a DJ/Slope or Trail/Enduro I do not know though.

Which of those categories has the bigger market?

Agree but they also seem to promote themselves more towards the DJ crowd so who's to say.

They are doing one. If it's a DJ/Slope or Trail/Enduro I do not know though.

Posted by: Taz123

I've ordered a Christmas present for myself - Nukeproof ARD (similar to Cushcore).

I have a stupid question. If/when I get a flat (sidewall or puncture), I am assuming I pull out the sealant drenched insert, wrap it around my body and toss in a tube...alternatively, leave the insert in place and use a bacon-strip. If the latter, I don't need to carry a backup tube any longer. Am I missing something? Is there some other form of black-magic that I could leverage here?

If you slice a sidewall then a bacon strip wont help and the insert couldn't of helped you.

Posted by: Kieran

Also having kids makes you drink more. It's a huge coping mechanism.

I used to drink more when my kids were younger, but then the hangovers and screaming in my face at 6am somehow made my want for beer go away.

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Leo is an Industrial Designer and not an actual engineer... this is the main problem but another one is his arrogance. People will still buy but good news is that the main players are getting to the good geo that Pole and Geometron has.

I think I'm the only one that's actually noticed but the actual suspension design is a ripoff of the Canfield design.

Canfields don't pivot around the BB.

The instant center still moves in the same manner however which is what matters. I suspect Leo got around the patent because Pole is based over seas? I could be wrong though.

Evolink Instant center

Canfield Instant center https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/The-Hub,2/Canfield-Brothers-Unveils-CBF-Suspension-Patent,9373

You're right they're similar but definitely not the same. Giant Maestro suspension Is also similar. I think the path the IC tracks throughout the travel would be the actual sticking point but I don't know enough about the patents to really know.

Fun fact: Meastro is a Dave Weagle design.  

Anyway Chris Canfield himself explained it to me which was pretty cool but basically the CBF design makes it so the chainline and IC rotate around the chain ring so no matter where you are in the travel, the squat values stay relatively unchanged which is what the patent focuses on more or less. Pole did the same thing with it rotating around the chainring albeit with a modified path, but still damn similar. The Weagle (Maestro) design, although has 2 rotating links is quite different.

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Posted by: LoamtoHome

Leo is an Industrial Designer and not an actual engineer... this is the main problem but another one is his arrogance. People will still buy but good news is that the main players are getting to the good geo that Pole and Geometron has.

I think I'm the only one that's actually noticed but the actual suspension design is a ripoff of the Canfield design.

Canfields don't pivot around the BB.

The instant center still moves in the same manner however which is what matters. I suspect Leo got around the patent because Pole is based over seas? I could be wrong though.