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In addition to decreasing the moment of inertia for the whole bike, mounting rear brakes closer to the main pivot point of the rear suspension would also marginally help the unsprung/sprung mass ratio.

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It's basically the same as a dw link, I'm pretty sure that BMC got around paying licensing fees for it by some loophole involving swiss patent laws. I'll try to find the article on it.

Mountain bikes will never get to the point that your 160mm enduro bike will pedal like a hardtail. Looking at the car industry you can either choose between comfort or speed, the only way you can get a comfortable ride that's nearly as fast (low body roll) as a harsher one is the predictive technology that Mercedes and other manufactures use that scan the road and will adjust the damping if you are about to hit a pothole or something. On a lower end but still nice car many will have the option to change between road, sport and track modes which will generally change the damping among other things, this is basically the same as a climb switch on a bike. I think most trail bikes should be able to climb decent without needing lock out, but if you want the ultimate downhill performance the pedaling is going suffer some because of that. Even in something like a dh World Cup you would ideally want lockout for sprinting on the pedaling sections to be able to achieve the fastest time. I think the cane creek "lockout" is exceptionally good on trail climbs but for road climbs when pedaling standing up I would prefer if there was an even firmer option. Honestly I think that geometry changes like the canyon shapeshifter or rockshox dual travel forks need to be more common and developed more. Has anyone ridden a climb on a modern bike and thought that the head angle was too steep or the front end too low? I have a bike with a 160/140 dual air shaft fork and reducing the travel so that the front end is 20mm lower makes much more of a difference to how that bike climbs on steep slopes than any shock lockout will. I think we have all accidently started a descent without opening the suspension back up before. If you use it regularly it's something that will just become habit, how often do you accidently start a descent with your dropper up or start a ride with out turning your gps or strava on?

Lol, there are actually multiple standards for unicycles though. 90mm for some freestyle and track racing ones, 100mm for almost everything else, and 125mm for fat bike ones. Plus your hub is also your crank spindle so you have isis, square taper, and a few proprietary unicycle ones, but most people just run Isis.

They do. I would like to see a company make a "normal" two legged fork with needle bearings to see how much stiction they reduce compared to a normal bushing fork.