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im northern irish so im gonna post a comment of support for good old ric! keep it up lad! chin up! them feckin whingin yanks couldnt grow a scruffy bear like yours if they tried!

@AgrAde: theres a general consensus id say that if you have 3 grounded points in a 6 bar linkage, that its a 4 bar linkage with 2 extra links creating a second 4 bar loop. i.e 2 more including the shock. If you have a 6 bar linkage with only 2 grounded points kind of like a stephenson linkage, then its more of a "pure" 6 bar. The shock being a link makes it an icky subject though because in linkage design mostly you have stiff incompressible links, but here we have a compressible link. so its more like a 5 and a half bar mechanism ............................

it remains to be seen how a metallic aluminium one of these will be made. Vitus had a similar shock tunnel on the sommet and it was so poorly welded that i broke 4 frames at the same place on the shock tunnel.

I doubt it if you mean a physical planetary one . 6 magnets providing input. One of the ways my shimano deristrictor works is by adding a second magnet and making them both spin very slow around a planetary deresrictor. it means the 3d printed gears can be a low module and print sturdy. With 6 magnets, it looks like theres gonna be no room atall for gearing of any sort, and it looks like they've actually pulled the magnets inbetween each bolt head on a diagonal line so they areon an even tighter P.C.D than the typical bosch or shimano one. Id say if we dropped out some of the magnets to allow for adding gearing to spin them slower then the system will not function as its expecting a minimum amount of magnet passes per second perhaps.

@boozed: correct. The engineering department is a division of CRC, so the people who design nukeproof also design vitus and are employed by CRC directly. Watch one of warners videos where he goes to visit them.

they are designed in the same engineering office in belfast i believe.

@dariodigiulio: ive ridden vitus bikes for years because i dont have alot of money and they are on my doorstep. CRC assembly hall technicians NEVER seem to be able to properly tension their wheels. My e sommet wheel tension dropped off on BOTH ebikes (ive had 2 esommets).

dont be so sure. I was talking to the prototype test rider who puts this bike through the motions up cave hill in belfast, and he mentioned that the new e-sommet is a few years away yet and unlikely to be bafang. Bafang for now is a mythique only thing.

Best wishes for your recovery, keep pushing.

The pinkbike comment section collective edgelord consciousness cant fathom the onset of technological advancement that solves a specific set of requirements that other people might have. Especially with electronic shifters. Electronic shifters remove a bunch of potential mechanical failure modes pertaining to precise shifting during a ride. Cables that stretch and need adjusted over a length over time. Sheathings that can get kinked or otherwise damaged in a way that may inhibit to prevent smooth cable actuation and cable return(which is the important bit). For someone like me who might get 2hrs max a week riding, that is a very valuable thing to have... Shifting that is repeatable and not dependent on a cable and sheathing during a ride and requires no maintenance ither than keeping the derailleur clean and charging a battery (or not with the self charging one) Ensuring shifting is repeatable and has little failure modes during a ride is more important to me than being able to replace a cable or sheathes in the garage at another point. Time constraints....bad shifting ruins a ride that i wont get to do for nearly another week or more and pisses me off. Even the idea of a self charging derailleur battery is something i can get on board with, but as with anything it has to be implemented correctly and maintained. Im not at this stage yet, im still on purley mechanical 11spd gears but i did kink a gear cable last ride in a crash and i still haven't had the chance to fix it yet. But if i had the money i do see the value in investing in axs. There is perceived value in AXS in the eye of the beholder who has the right set of riding requirements that AXS satisfies. The majority of pinkbike commenters most likely do not fall into this category.(this is a big potentially egregious assumption..20/30 something..single...alot of spare time)