GoLefty!!

I got a nice 29er for a test ride in my work room. Needs a bit of attention but planning to give a bit of a test tomorrow afteroon. Not sure I'm going to buy one, I prefer the easy handing of the 650b and 26" bikes but lets see....

doesn't change the fact that there is a 150mm standard whic was the point you were making. A 157mm clearly does not conform to the 150mm standard and is likely proprietry to a few brands. Also doesn't change the opinion that a 148mm standard is just silly when a 150mm standard already exists. In truth, 148mm is a Trek internal standard they make available to everyone because they know no one else will adopt it. Who is going to make these hubs? pretty much locked into in house Trek brands

probably won by someone who can afford the entry anyway

Carbon rims require carbon carbon brake pads. Pretty expensive those are and I don't know of any company that makes something like that. Thats whats helps an Fq car stop. High brake system pressure and carbon carbon pads on carbon disc pads. Wear rate is massive and of course they have very special cooling shrouds, for me, carbon wheels are for race day when you have other soft bodies to fall on top of. For training, I'll stick to aluminium

Exactly, I was really keen on the new Fuel Ex after they announced the Re:aktiv. Thankfully they do not seem to have included this stupid "innovation' in these new 650b bikes. there may be hope for Trek yet,.

I believe Dave Weagle developed a full floater design for Independent Fabrication back in 2005 before Trek brought out a series production model in 2007. The designs were very different in that the Indy Fab design was based around Weagles DW-Link while Trek based theirs around their Active Brake Pivot design

can't see the point. The 150mm std already exists. Hubs just need the flanges to be further apart not have a wider rear triangle. Cannondale got around wheel strength in their new F-Si 29 without resorting to a new std. Don't thik I'm going to buy into a another proprietry rear hub. Front hubs don;t have much bearings issues but rear hubs deliver lots of problems. I think this is an own goal.

its wasn't televised on dstv..

Shot that works

cant log on either. is a special app needed?

I emailed Canyon last week. Will see what they say. Don't mind importing the frame and building it up with kit I want.Their Strive CF or Spectral is definately topping my trail bike acquisition list right now. good reviews on the Spectral and Nerve but this new Strive is just awesome

Giant is not much slacker in the head angle and is shorter in wheelbase. I prefer direct steering of the Cannondale and the Lefty is hard to beat but Anthem may be a better all rounder for most. The Scalpel demands your constant attention. No rest for the wickedly fast

DID YOU START THE THREAD?

WHY DOES IT HAVE TO BE CARBON?

Like good coffee, percolation time is needed. While thats happening, time to go ride your bicycle

Completely agree Johan, No point in a wider hub if there is no exploitation of wider flange spacing. the 29ers need that wider spcaing to recover strength and get anywhere near the strength of 26 or een 27.5 wheels. I find it ludicrous that the entire industry is retooling to accomodate a bigger wheel that offers very little real benefits

Want one but heck what a convoluted path to get it here....

what time is qualification on redbull.com?

FOx have always tuned shocks to OE requirements before shipping. The RP23 in particular weretuned to specific requirements for bike size and estimated weight range. There was nothing stopping the end user form tuning it more to their liking. What would be fantastic is if the retailer can adjust the tune of the suspension before delivering the shock to the customer. I always retuned my Lefty to better suit my weight as I prefered a small frame but that came with shock tuning for a 64Kg rider and I was 10 kg heavier since I don;t have hollow bones. For most riders, a Medium bike should have suspension tuned to a large weight range nstead of the assumption that every person who buys the bike is a pro rider spending 6 hrs a day on their machine.

I suspect going 150mm will also have an effect on the rim manufacture not just the q-factor. To drill a rim for 150mm will require the spoke whole to be drill at an angle a few degrees closer to the axial plane of the hub. This could result in a strength loss. Haven't done the calcs but the back of a cigarette box fudging seems to support the idea that flage width about 5-6 mm wider than current will increase wheel stiffness on a 29er wheel to closer to what a 26 offers. glad to see the industry to acknowledging that 29er wheels are too stupidly weak through annually coming up with proprietry solutions to a simple problem of sticking a slightly smaller wheel Argh well, no other way to extract money from addicts otherwise

Re;Aktiv has nothing to do with CTD, SPV or propedal. Re; Akticv is not an add on to the compression circuit, it IS THE COMPRESSION CIRCUIT. I think this is where everyone is confused because the marketing hype over the last few years has always focussed on the threshold valves that work ahead of the compression circuit. CTD is a three different valving configurations that also relate to suspension travel. Its lever activated so the shock is only ever working on one circuit. Flip it and leave it. As I posted above Re;Aktiv is a multistage compression circuit. Think of it as three SPV's on top of three compression circuits all tuned to activate at different shaft speed but tuned so that the response between each circuit is syncronous

Brain is like a Curnutt threshold valve, similar to SPV and similar to Propedal. They are all threshold valves that get activated by a system pressure spike. Re:aktiv has nothing to do with the threshold, its a multistage compression damping circuit. NO current shock absorber fitted to a mountain bike uses this type of shock absorber in that all are currently single stage. Not familiar with DVO yet but they could be doing something similar to Penske

thrice actually

Of course it legit!!! Its been used in INdy car and Formula 1 for about 11 years! Most recent F1 teams to utilize this damping is RedBull and Mercedes. McLaren is an old customer of Roger Penske and Ferrari has also used their dampers equiped with a similar damping tune. Its this sort of damping technology that allows the F1 cars to not roll much through the corners or squat under acceleration or dive under heavy braking but still be able to ride the bumps with full and supple suspension movement. trek are scoring two goals for 2015: Re;activ damping and 650b Fuel XC race bike!

You won't be alone in that opinion.