Balgaroth

What's the point ? Breaking spokes are a rare occurence. When you start breaking spokes on a regular basis it means that your spokes are fatigued, and that most likely all will break one after another and you should relace the wheel properly. In which case, what's the benefit of these over priced, over engineered, over weight nipples ?

because most horst link suspension layout have very low AR value which is trash for most riders which would benefit a lot more from geometry preservation during braking rather than slightly more grip on the back wheel which provides f-all braking power. Sure a horst-link sound more complex to someone who doesn't know/understand suspension, which makes it great for marketing to sell bikes.

@Dougal-SC: If you consider that you are running the same setting than normal, then yes the fork will feel bad when riding, but if you run the fork softer, accounting for the added "force" when braking, then you can have a fork that is more compliant in every other situation when you are off the brakes. Many of us end up with more damping or spring than we would like too just to accommodate brake dive when riding steep downhill and not ride the endo of the stroke or be shifted forward. This is even more true if you ride a horst-link bike which will throw you forward when on the brakes thanks to its amazing low AR value (lol). Personally, the day I switched to a single pivot with good AR values I was able to lower my fork spring and LsC which made it work better everywhere. I don't see why it couldn't be the case here too, what do you think ?

Nice looking bike but the suspension design with what is probably and extremely low Anti-rise value gives me the worst hick ever, yew lol.

no it wasn't ! It might have worked very well but at least in France I don't know a single person that didn't think it was ugly as a sin.

@succulentsausage: next we are gonna get a Redalp revival !

Not sure if Elite was first but Vaude has been doing sugar cane water bottle for at least 3 or 4 years now. So this is definitely a big claim. And unless these bottles are made in house, they probably come from the same white label manufacturer which use a different mold and puts a different logo on it but the material and supply chain for it remains the same.

@EndurHo: like so many Made in XXX products ... don't rear the fine print or you will most likely be disappointed.

@killerisation: I only ride Dh and some Enduro, the steeper and more technical the better. One thing I learned with modern geometry and with proper, supporting suspension is that you don't need to ride hanging at the back of the bike like we did 20 years ago. To me slack STA is just a trace of the past that should have never been there if Mtb didn't start with road bike geometry. Now because I don't need to shift my weight backward nearly as much as before, slack STA often place the saddle too far back and actually don't allow for the use of the saddle as a 5th point of contact. I made my frame with a steep STA as I wanted to be able to pedal it (a super ultra enduro I guess, or what and Enduro bike should be IMO). I was worried it would make my DH experience a little worse but I was willing to compromise on that aspect. At the end it turned out that I prefer this over more conventional slack STA. With that said, some pure breed DH frames seem to also shift towards much steeper STA than before, so maybe I am not crazy.

since your patent looks, indeed, very similar to Yamaha's, could you tell us what's the point of it ? I used to have DH bikes with slack seat tube angles and today my frame has 79° STA and it actually feels better than a slack angle. So the only advantage I can see is the seat tilt but why design a frame around with rather big constraints when you can simply use something like Aneomali "saddle tilter" contraption. What am I missing ?