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Benjamin Wood (Santa Cruz Teams Mechanic) sounds like Peter Steele from Type'O'Negative. Maybe change careers, there's a void to fill.

Canyon's KIS system: Because sometimes, even your bike needs therapy.

@FuzzyL: Harley Davidson had to take appropriate measures to make it not an issue and you could ride relaxed also at low cruising speeds. Keyword: negative offset - to bring the trail to usable values such as 3.5 to 4.0 inches. That's not what you see in the bike industry. Weather 27.5", 29", DH bike, trail bike, etc.. - it's all a swamp with more or less extreme effects and then with blossoms like KIS. The good thing is that humans get used to everything...

Correct! Cause and effect. It saves FOX and RockShox from having to produce the correct fork offsets that the current geometries would actually require...

The reason is that motorcycle designers have always used the correct fork offset in relation to the steering angle and wheel diameter. The approach in the bike industry with "one offset fits all" and then regardless of the physical facts every new model year to make the steering angle one degree flatter and then wonder that the wheel flop becomes too extreme, happens only to the clueless morons in the bike industry. KIS is putting the cart before the horse.

@DavidGuerra: clear. I knew you are aware of that issiue with the chainring size. You arguments are valid in general, however, a gravity bike should never have maximum pedalling efficincey as the key metric, its the better suspension performance imo. Therefore: for what the bike is, these guys made it spot on.

@font style="vertical-align: inherit;">David Guerra /font>: These are all myths imo. Reading technical literature, not bike magazines. Too much antisquat locks up the suspension and other dynamic problems should and can be solved by proper suspension setup, optimized geometry, proper riding style, etc.. I think the suspension should be able to bounce freely and the forementioned dynamic problems should be solved at the cause and not by fighting symptoms in the wrong place.

@Jake-Whitehouse: neither. The strong progression at the beginning helps to create an extremely sensitive suspension. The zone from SAG is not that progressive, which should make the suspension travel very well useable, without rushing too quickly through the travel. The steep end progression towards the bottom prevents the suspension from ever bottoming out. Due to the curvy ratio characteristic, however, it can be difficult to quickly tune the shock.

Wow

Engineer: "Good geo's should center themselves. What's the point?" Marketing: "Compensate bad Geo's!"