comming up short on the 30 footer, another 2008 santa cruz v10 gets hyper xtended.

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flag quinner (Oct 4, 2009 at 19:19)
Snow digglering & hyper extension. Weeee, fun afternoon in fernie eh! I'm praying the snow melts a little this week...
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flag alainj (Oct 5, 2009 at 4:44)
aahaha yeah you got that right! Im not too sure about this snow and all the mega cold thats commin up next weekend.
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flag edd-stevens (Oct 8, 2009 at 14:33)
this is the one thing that annoy's me on the v10's.
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flag alainj (Oct 8, 2009 at 16:14)
annoying? yes. Does it happen often or regularly? No. This only happens if you really crash mega hard, like say comming up short on a high speed 30 foot gap or something. I did it to my bike(the white one in this album) on a high speed crash where the bike slammed in a tree. Perhaps another bike would blow the rear shock in a simillar crash.
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flag andrew-cho (Oct 9, 2009 at 21:07)
so what happened exactly? i dont understand whats going on in the pic.. is it that the swing arm just got super extended out when the shock rebounded?
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flag alainj (Oct 10, 2009 at 7:44)
this whole phenomenon is still perplexing to me but yes, it is a combination of hard impact and mega rebound action that forces the carbone link behind the seat post. Maby the carbone link flexes or something Im not to sure. But notice where the link is sitting, u can see its caught behind the seat post frame.
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flag alainj (Oct 10, 2009 at 7:46)
its an easy fix, just undo the top two screws of the pivot and re install, then keep riding if you dont need to go to the hospital.
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Canada Fernie, British Columbia, Canada

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Date: 2009-10-04
Trail: Dirt Diggler
Riders: Conrad Spring
Description: comming up short on the 30 footer, another 2008 santa cruz v10 gets hyper xtended.
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