PRESS RELEASE: Cascade ComponentsOur collection of linkages has been expanded to include another PNW brand. We are proud to announce the Cascade Components link for the Evil Offering. Already a capable and playful bike, these traits are enhanced with the addition of the Cascade Components link. The link increases progression to 35% and increases travel to 145mm. The primary focus of the link is to tweak the leverage curve for improved mid-stroke support, bottom out resistance, and small bump sensitivity. Along with this, the curve has been smoothed out to remove the linear mid-stroke portion of travel. These changes keep it glued to the ground when you need it while also improving support when jumping, slapping berms, and boosting every side hit in sight. When you come back down to earth the ramp up keeps you from becoming too friendly with your bottom out bumper.
The Offering link comes in black, silver, and orange
The Cascade Components link is a perfect fit for anyone looking to better balance bottom out resistance and small bump sensitivity or looking to run a coil. This link is not coil specific, however. This balance is something that no combination of volume spacers, shock air cans or compression tunes can replicate. Not all trails can be shuttled, so the ability to pedal the bike is unaffected, allowing you to push your limits with long days on the trail.
Specs and Details:• 145 mm of travel
• Progression increased to 35% compared to 23% with stock link
• Sealed Enduro MAX bearings
• CNC’d from 6061-T6 in the USA
• Colors: Black, silver, orange
• Cost:
$249 USD.
Alex sliding his Offering through a turn
For more information click
cascadecomponents.bike/collections/evil-links/products/evil-offering-link.
You’ll need a stiffer spring after fitting the link from stock.
As me how I know
the fact that you guys have a sense of humor make me want to buy from you, even though i don't need or want a custom linkage. Your comment was priceless
Credit where credit is due though the sentinel link looks very dialed on paper and addresses the weak points of the stock link.
And then add in financial investment and you have a strong placebo effect
Only real way to tell is to do it against the clock, and even then does that really matter to most people?
If you take an Enduro bike to the bike park for example, there's a range of trail types that it might be ridden on (flow, tech, big jumps, severe features). A good suspension design should be able to cover all bases, but there will inevitably either be limitations at the extremes or finding that the design favours one end of the spectrum to the other.
Again, my understanding is limited, but i understand that, rathere than correcting a flawed suspension design, these products simply allow the suspension design to swing in the favour of a particular style of riding (presumably at the expense of the opposite characteristics).
I could be very wrong though.
I understand we should be suspicious of confirmation bias, but I have not seen a single post in the various forums stating it was a waste of money or it didn’t “feel” any different.
A lot of them do - Rocky Mountain's Ride 9 comes to mind, Cube has different shock mounts for air/coil and iirc so does Santa Cruz' Megatower. Those systems follow the same principles.
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But a new rocker could solve this. And turns out it's on its way already!