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Trailforks app. It's really that simple.
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Moving the brake levers inward ensures that your fingers are always applying their force to the end of the lever & not choking up on them.
No logical explanation for pointing them down...
The logic behind high brake levers would be this: www.pinkbike.com/photo/13840508
Basically, if your levers are pointed down at the same angle as your head tube: Then your arms, wrists & hands are all in line with your head tube as well. That leaves only your little bitty thumb joint to do all the holding on in the event of a hard impact or huck to flat that wants to push you down/forward.
(On steep terrain, this would be exaggerated even more, because your levers would be tipped so far forward that your hands would be past 90 degrees and pointing underneath you).
If your levers are raised up higher: This means your hands are also much more flat/horizontal on the bars. That puts the entire palm of your hand resting straight down on the bars, with your wrists putting their pressure behind the bars & it leaves your hands in a much, much better position to take the forces of a hard down/forward impact.
The physics behind higher brake levers is there, it definitely makes sense.
If you prefer not to use it, because of personal preference, or because of personal riding style or whatever, that's totally cool! Keep doing whatever you have to do to shred your bikes.
Now... Less typing, more biking for me. I said my piece, I'm out.
Cheers.
The other thing is that running steep levers seems to help get me in attack position, although that's pure conjecture. Anyway, different strokes for different folks. It likely has a lot to do with build, riding style and bike fit. There seem to be people much faster than me doing it both ways.
The prize page says the below which implies you win a 2016 Giant Reign 1 (Complete bike) in addition to the parts listed. The implication comes from the lack of reference to frameset only + listing the value of the entire Reign1 bike.
"9. One (1) 2016 Giant Reign 1 (Total estimated value $5549 CAD) , RockShox Lyrik Fork (Total
estimated value $630CAD), RockShox Monarch Plus (Total estimated value $365CAD), SRAM
Eagle Drivetrain (Total estimated value $1,900CAD), RockShox Reverb Seat Post (Total
estimated value $525), Truvativ Descendant Handlebar (Total estimated value $100CAD),
Truvativ Descendant Stem (Total estimated value $100CAD), SRAM Rail 40 Wheelset (Total
estimated value $920CAD), SRAM Guide Ultimate Brake set (Total estimated value $335CAD)"
Well Played evil trail forks master minds!!!
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4. Entry into the Trailforks giveaway will run from Friday August 12th 2016  Monday August
22nd 2016 (the “Contest Period”).
FeelsBadMan =(
My point is if I could use it on my phone I would but I cant download because they dont support it for all phones.to promote the application as you say make it available on all phones
Nice build however.