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waaait, is this andrew posting under cam's account?

everything about this rules.

when it comes to knees, YOU MISS NOTHING.

ahh, missed that wasn't your bike (should have noticed the fork). also should have added the footnote: *for aesthetic purposes, primarily. 

also - stoked about the CP podcast. love hearing his ruminations.

i :heart: my current 78.6* sta. so many years, climbing uncomfortably perched on the noses of saddles. amazing it's taken so long to figure this out. granted, reach had to stretch a few inches as well to make this work (which, again, i have no idea why no one had at least attempted years ago). hindsight, etc. 

also - aj, looks like you're a prime candidate for an aenomaly switchgrade saddle tilt gizmo.

love all the content coming from steve / yoann / remy these days. guys seem to be feeding off each other, advancing the current tech-gnar state of the art. so cool.

evidently they're still around! i kinda / sorta think that a refined iteration of this type of thing (hammerSchmidt 2.0?) with a 7-8 speed compact cassette & short cage could have contemporary validity. pull a bunch of weight off the back wheel, allow for wider flange spacing and/or narrower wheel / better chainline, use more robust, less exposed derailleur & much cheaper cassette...

http://www.schlumpfdrive.com/index.php/home-en.html

huge pie plates & ground scraping derailleurs are an affront to my sense of aesthetics. and the additional unsprung weight? *rolls eyes aggressively*. used to run short cage rd's & compact cassettes back in the freeride days (and just suffer up the climbs). this is a happy compromise of sorts.

you big nerd andrew. i love unorthodox tinkering like this. not sure i could wrap my head around the manual front shift tho; i like my uphill to downhill transitions to be quick & seamless. i DO love smaller cassettes & the venerable shorty zee mech tho. currently running 26t x 10-42 w/ a gs mid cage; was contemplating 24 x 10-36 w/ a short cage, but wasn't sure how the small ring would play with my pedaling kinematics (the 26 is working well, so 24 just may be feasible). anyways, keep dorking out!

yep. while the top end is getting stratospheric (pretty sure aggressively diminished returns), the mid-range (alas, i guess that's now around $5k) is populated by lots of shreddy - ready hardware these days. 

would be interesting to see a head to head review of premium vs value specs - say the carbon 99 vs the alloy 50 (with an $8k (!) price spread). bling: is it all that? lets find out.

oh man, this thread is a veritable time capsule.

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^that didn't have the same cs length as the S1? the levo is offered in a range of reaches spanning 120mm - all sporting the same chainstay. specialized is doing incredibly advanced work in many areas, that they're still oblivious to addressing front / rear balance - for all sizes - is a bit surprising.

To be fair it's probably better value/marketing ROI to promote so-called innovation in batteries and motors to well-heeled noobs than something a lot less sexy like bikes actually, you know, fitting people.

(dorky rant) - if you use the same ratio of chainstay to reach of the s1 & apply that to the s4, joe average would be on 512mm chainstays. extrapolating from the s6, he'd be on 396mm stays. you can have dialed geometry - but only if you ride a medium. and this seems ok for a TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLAR bicycle? it's not hard to accommodate different lengths (relatively) cheaply - ie, via axle flip chips, or just moving things around a bit in the front triangle a la norco. the bike industry - so dumb sometimes.

^that didn't have the same cs length as the S1? the levo is offered in a range of reaches spanning 120mm - all sporting the same chainstay. specialized is doing incredibly advanced work in many areas, that they're still oblivious to addressing front / rear balance - for all sizes - is a bit surprising.

$19,400 for this bad boy. a bit disappointed they didn't just go for the gusto & punch through that $20k barrier.

but yeah, you can buy some really nice motos for that price. it boggles *my* frugal mind, but evidently there's a market for such things, so more power to them, i guess?

old buck / BP / mushroom / push up remainder of incline

ooh, love this iteration:

interesting branding concept; the anti-specialized bent seems a bit overly contrived, but i'm old & cynical. i assume trends better with the jibby kids this is directed towards.  still, aggressive modern geo for cheap(er) is something we desperately need more of. i like it.

haha. though NO WATERBOTTLE = NO SALE. and (to be frank) if i was going to go for a simple single pivot (i prefer my single pivots to be linkage actuated) i'd go for something more minimalist like a starling. impressive work for a homebuild, tho.

nice work! haven't been down there in forever; doesn't actually look too bad (don't mind eroded chunk). surprised to see new construction.

yeah, i space inboard as well. given the much higher torque in the low gears it makes sense to skew more chainline offset to the small cogs.

or keep your freehub & run sram cassette w/ shimano shifty bits? what i've got currently (albeit 11 spd xt); works great.