@dans160: me too. We had one in the shop I worked at with all the milled out yokes on the back. Eventually someone bought it when it had been sitting there for about three years and I remember the back suspension barely moved. It was terrible. And then Marin licenced the design, and the Marins were even worse than the Manitou. It may have had 3"+ travel on paper, but in realz it was more like 1.25".
@jaame: I had the Marin. Took out the elastomers, jammed some Speed Springs in there, shaved down the top and bottom out elastomers, got those three inches! Tire would buzz on the big hits, and topped out with a clunk! It was a pogo stick but I loved it. When you don't know any better...
@Olimac: that's true. I had a Rockshox Quadra 21R and to make it a bit more active I used to use my dad's motor oil in the tops of the legs. That was when elastomer rockshox had the boots and no dust seals. You could pull the boots up and look into the sliders, and literally pour oil on the tops of the bushings. It would top out like a Barrett .50 but I loved that fork! And like you say, when you're a young lad it's all good!
@bobbybottleservice: Thank you dude, really appreciate it! Yep I've been pretty frustrated with the event the past few years because of this exact reason.
@gregpickhardt: Thanks! The Pilot has 16x9 Pro-comp steel rock crawler wheels, with Pathfinder AT 245/75-16 tires. It has a 2” lift kit as well. ????
Impressive -- both the design, itself, and the fact that you survived.
With that said, I want to point out that the arch would have never snapped if you had used a Lefty. Note that while this design tip IS patented, I'm very reasonable with my licensing fees.
The next model is longer and slacker. 15 percent smoother performance. Suspension has been optimised to climb like a three legged goat and decend like the carts of darkness.
Bravo! Ahead of the game! I’m suspended in disbelief! May I digressive rebound to say, your compactionate commitment to the progressionitive advancement of the sport has dampened my skepticism. Truly, there’s substanchionative evidence that alternative medicinal engineericalogical measures proved to be successful in your study.
"You made that yourself?" Nup. Found it on Pinkbike BuySell. Only six previous owners. That's a load-bearing sticker right there, so don't touch it because I don't want to ruin the warranty.
Don't like the name, but sorta sad they broke it, that was a fun idea. P.S. Would've bet money he couldn't manual it, but I was proven wrong. Still looks like a single seat tandem bike.
That was brilliant!
I think this idea has huge potential because at first it looked like it was working flawlessly!
A little more design tuning for more lateral support and boom!!!
But I know it was meant to be a joke!
RideOn!!
Nice work, shame did broke But, For anyone out there that never rode manitou fs that used a similar idea, problem with twin fork frame designs that on compression suspension kicks back end too the side
You can actually see it happening before it broke
awesome video. one thing i noticed is that one of the forks arches was cut off. Magura forks like the durin ran 2 arches so with one removed it was much more likely to fail. I guess it was removed for clearance reasons?. Fun vid though and looked a good laugh.
The video would have ended perfectly if at the end he took it to the bike shop service manager to fix. Get the real reactions from the employees. Have to do a redo.
Balks at the price of the bike yet shows a short clip of solidworks! A seat for a year costs way more than that bike unless you are a student and hopefully you got your mileage in by redesigning that fork arch. Buying the Kona was a good call as modern bikes are really well designed. Cool video and idea to use a fork in the rear.
I was lucky enough to test ride one of these bikes. I brought it back and it was leaking oil from both sides of the fork seals. Manitou was so impressed they hooked me up with a Shawn Palmer titanium Edition fork for my Super V. I was 135 lb and destroyed their ride.
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P.S. Would've bet money he couldn't manual it, but I was proven wrong. Still looks like a single seat tandem bike.
cool vid BTW
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www.pinkbike.com/buysell/2655147
hahaha!