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Monarch87
- Member since Oct 1, 2010
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Bolzano , Italy - 14 Followers
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Monarch87 Frameworks's article
Jan 30, 2026 at 7:35
Jan 30, 2026
Video: Pre-Season Training Camp with Frameworks Racing / TRP in SoCal
Seasons soundtrack for the win!
So so stoked for this team
Monarch87 edspratt's article
Jan 23, 2026 at 4:45
Jan 23, 2026
Brendan Fairclough Parts Ways with Fox Suspension After 14 Years
Well, they surely sell a ton of bikes in the Port du Soleil area. In these places DH bikes get sold.
And they have tons of rental bikes there.
Monarch87 mattbeer's article
Nov 17, 2025 at 22:51
Nov 17, 2025
Review: Orbea Rallon DH - A Recipe For Locking Into Turns
@KJP1230: To me it's the usual "Let's fit an air shock with the comfort tune, so dentists and their sons are satisfied and don't need to change their coil weight."
I am pretty sure that this would be resolved with a more linear working (read: coil-) shock and an adequate suspension tune (=more compression damping). The leverage rate has no strange bumps in it, so there shouldn't be huge difficulties setting up an adequate shock accordingly. Chain growth should never make part of the suspension design as far as leverage curves go, especially in an era where o-chain, low engagement hubs etc. are here to stay.
Monarch87 edspratt's article
Nov 6, 2025 at 23:50
Nov 6, 2025
Gore Reportedly Set to Close Gorewear Cycle Clothing Division
@pmhobson: Actually Gore is big in all sorts of sectors. Sports appearel is actually quite a small sector of their businesses. The real cash cows are medical products such as stents.
Monarch87 Dario-DiGiulio's article
Nov 13, 2024 at 23:49
Nov 13, 2024
Intend Releases New Blackline Forks & Components
@lkubica: Classic engineering approach, lol. Product is great, but then marketing says, said product needs to appeal to the customer. Engineering adds gimmicks and rolls eyes.
Monarch87 sarahmoore's article
Mar 1, 2024 at 9:00
Mar 1, 2024
Video: Jackson Goldstone in Queenstown for 'Dreams'
Boost bro boostin'
Monarch87 seb-stott's article
Nov 2, 2023 at 7:14
Nov 2, 2023
Thought Experiment: How Good Could e-Bikes Get?
Same.
Did some 45km and 1400m climbing mission on a rent-a-bike with some technical uphill stuff included.
Such a cool toy.Triggered the decision to get e Levo SL Gen2 for my girlfriend to get back into the sport. She's absolutely loving it, especially the handling of it as it weighs basically the same as my DH sled.
Monarch87 edspratt's article
Dec 5, 2022 at 13:25
Dec 5, 2022
Video: Jack Moir's Metal Monday from Thredbo
Amon Amarth - cry of the blackbirds
Parkway drive - swing
Monarch87 deanosmachineos's article
Jul 20, 2022 at 1:13
Jul 20, 2022
Podcast: Loic Bruni & Finn Iles Talk to Dean Lucas About Building A Riders Union
@iiman: First of all, you meant the FIS (federation international du ski) not ISF (international snowboard federation), which was let's say the parent of the TTR. The ISF and TTR were led by snowboarders for snowboarders and had a huge following. Then came the Olympics and everyone needed to compete in FIS-regulated contests to qualify. Unfortunately the ISF and TTR died due to these developments. Now there's the xgames series, dew tour air&style, which are all indipendent important contests. And every 4 years the FIS-contest madness starts again for qualifying for the olympics.
