Video: Sunn French Connexion Racing Adds Sophie Riva & SR Suntour Suspension for 2023 by FrenchConnexionRacing

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bigdavehughes (Jan 9, 2023 at 4:42)

Well done Sophie, I thoroughly enjoyed your company on the transitions between stages on the EWS (me being in the old farts category and Sophie in the under 21s) she always caught me up, good luck to the 2023 season for this massively talented racer.

sphrvi (Jan 9, 2023 at 7:31)

thanks Dave ☺️
hope to see you at the upcoming ews!!!

blacktea FL (Jan 9, 2023 at 4:49)

Awwww Sophie riding for Sunn .... you can do it !!!!

skimons (Jan 9, 2023 at 9:00)

Allez les Blues! but wait... no French lyrics??

Kenroth33 (Jan 10, 2023 at 15:52)

Sucks that they went to a crapy suntour fork

fruitsd79 (Jan 10, 2023 at 16:20)

I don't think you can rebound from this.

GLOB-2018 FL (Jan 11, 2023 at 18:20)

Nice work Sophie!! Just been watching you ripping it up on MoiMoiTV

pisgahgnar FL (Jan 9, 2023 at 5:34)

Is that SR Suntour Tri air just a rebranded Topaz?

Becciu (Jan 9, 2023 at 6:00)

Or is the opposite? (if i remember correctly, there'a a difference in the damping unit; IFP vs bladder maybe?)
IMHO DVO is simply the "fancy" high-end Suntour stuff

felimocl (Jan 9, 2023 at 6:15)

I remember that parts for dvo forks were manufactured by Sr su tour. Wouldn't be surprised about the shocks too. SR Suntour make a lot of components for other well known brands

pisgahgnar FL (Jan 9, 2023 at 6:25)

I didn't realize their role in manufacturing. Learning something new each day!

bmied31 (Jan 9, 2023 at 6:31)

Pretty sure it's the other way around, also one has a IFP, the other has a bladder. My previous bike has a SR Suntour Tri-Air 1 and a Aurson RSC PC2 fork. Best suspension setup I've ever had. If my optic didn't have a specific tune for it's rear shock I'd switch back in a heart beat.

DizzyNinja (Jan 9, 2023 at 7:10)

@bmied31: custom tune?

bmied31 (Jan 9, 2023 at 7:33)

@DizzyNinja: the Super Deluxe has a frame-specific tune for the kinematics of the Optic.

TheBearDen FL (Jan 9, 2023 at 7:45)

@bmied31: you can run whatever shock you want on your Optic. I scrapped the super deluxe DH air shock on my optic and ran a medium tune fox factory DPX2 and it's was leaps and bounds better.
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All last year I ran that DPX2 along with the Cascade components Rocker link for the optic and that was big game changer as well.
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I personally think the oOptic's "custom" tuned shocks are heavily over damped and you are losing out on some proper suspension performance by running the stock shock.

baca262 (Jan 9, 2023 at 7:52)

@pisgahgnar: suntour is apeshit. check out how many different forks they have, most of it is low end but the lineup is mental, there's literally everything

Frank191 (Jan 9, 2023 at 10:36)

@baca262: and their high end stuff is really good. They have the whole range. Kind of like shimano having tourney all the way up to xtr

baca262 (Jan 9, 2023 at 10:44)

@Frank191: i just saw the pic, and it's a single unit dust wiper/oil seal, it's dissapointing. i've a dorado atm and it has both seals but the bushings were seated crap so it's sticky. apparently it's a lottery on how much stiction a fork will have yet it's the most essential thing, why old marzocchis were loved even with crap damping

bmied31 (Jan 9, 2023 at 18:04)

@baca262: Olympic Men's XC gold was won on Suntour...

bmied31 (Jan 9, 2023 at 18:05)

@TheBearDen: Good to know, I don't know if they make a Tri-Air 1 or 2 in the size the optic needs unfortunately. I would like to replace my Pike with an Auron eventually.

mtbschrader (Jan 10, 2023 at 6:41)

@bmied31: I have the TriAir2 shock on my bike and love it.

vinay FL (Jan 11, 2023 at 6:20)

@bmied31: Lot's of Rampage athletes too, including a couple of wins. The UR Polygon team was on their stuff too.

bmied31 (Jan 11, 2023 at 6:59)

@vinay: There stuff is fantastic once you get to the high end.

vinay FL (Jan 11, 2023 at 7:22)

@bmied31: Yeah, I'd suspect people would more resistant to the ABUS support (because of their discriminatory business practices) than that'd they'd shit on Suntour just because they ALSO deliver budget components.

Sylvain38 (Jan 9, 2023 at 19:35)

oh, j'ai vu un chevelu

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Remmn (Jan 9, 2023 at 5:42)

are we supposed to have heard of this team or these people? pink bike is such trash

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pisgahgnar FL (Jan 9, 2023 at 6:06)

I apologize to everyone else for this ignorant American.

benjiancillotti (Jan 9, 2023 at 6:09)

@pisgahgnar:
Haha thank you!

benjiancillotti (Jan 9, 2023 at 6:14)

Seems a bit unnecessarily harsh on pinkbike!

I agree with you though; for you to be aware of this overseas news item, or even supposed to be ready for it as you say before the actual press release is quite bizarre.

Sorry just messin, took the bait ‍♂️

danstonQ (Jan 9, 2023 at 7:07)

@pisgahgnar: He's got the right to be ignorant, not to be arrogant. He's stupid anyway and can f*ck off.

baca262 (Jan 9, 2023 at 7:54)

@pisgahgnar: it's not the ignorance, it's the bloatedness. i cannot fathom how these people think they'll fare in life, treating everyone like shit.

Aksel31 (Jan 9, 2023 at 8:18)

Look at you in front of a mirror to have a correct definition of trash. You sure have the right to ignore a more european/local team, but absolutely not rights to sh@t on them for no reason. Do you think the world knows every national/local US MTB people ??? No, that doesn't mean they are not talented, that doesn't mean they deserve any spite coming from sub-par arrogant riders.

I get it now why the aliens are always aiming at the US in the movies haha

danstonQ (Jan 9, 2023 at 9:35)

@Aksel31: On est bien trop gentil de se casser le cul à essayer d'éclairer un débile pareil. Perte de temps. Bonjour chez toi camarade.

Saucycheese FL (Jan 9, 2023 at 11:49)

Doors right there. Don't let it hit you on the way out

pistol2ne (Jan 9, 2023 at 14:59)

@baca262: I've fared pretty well telling people the harsh truth. Pinkbike has gone downhill since getting bought but it is most def an international sport.

What does being bloated have to do with not knowing something?

baca262 (Jan 10, 2023 at 8:54)

@pistol2ne: f*ck around and find out, son

pistol2ne (Jan 10, 2023 at 9:12)

@baca262: Lol okay anonymous pinkbike user.

baca262 (Jan 10, 2023 at 9:30)

it would seem it's darwin award season for real, people think they're bigger than god. would you look at that dipshit, he thinks he's safe

Saucycheese FL (Jan 10, 2023 at 9:42)

@baca262: you seem like you need to take a break from the internet

baca262 (Jan 10, 2023 at 9:56)

@Saucycheese: your point? i mean, i'm giving you guys DESERVED shit to try and get you to get your head out of your ass and take a look at the world that surrounds you. i am trying to HELP you and you hate reality. next thing you'll say you love getting abused.

danstonQ (Jan 10, 2023 at 10:25)

@Saucycheese: Sure. This thread is getting bigger than the regular one above. Giving too much importance to a cumbag's comment is not reasonable, especially when the cumbag in question is NOT reasonable.

baca262 (Jan 10, 2023 at 10:36)

@danstonQ: well, one CAN and SHOULD try to talk sense into people, you'd have to be a full on psycho to just let them f*ck themselves up in their stupidity. most people aren't as much bad as they're outright delusional, just look at the garden variety trolls, they're bona fide fatalists, they think everything is a losing game

pistol2ne (Jan 10, 2023 at 13:01)

@baca262: saying pinkbike is trash makes one a fatalist, troll and delusional?

Log off or go for a ride.

baca262 (Jan 10, 2023 at 13:05)

@pistol2ne: that's not what i said. your twisting words to appeal to the idiots doesn't make you right

pistol2ne (Jan 16, 2023 at 11:05)

@baca262: I think YOU'RE appealing to idiots because you didn't use the correct form of your.