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@jespinal: I never said you can't get good quality stickers in Europe, in Spain or even in Barcelona. What I DID say is, if I remember correctly, Cesar said that when you go to Asia, to a big manufacturer, you specify what you want and get that in a box. A frame of such and such shape, characteristics, of color and stickers. If you go to a reputable manufacturer, the likelihood is the paint will be good, the stickers will be good, etc. THEY handle everything as they have relationships and everything. Good, you know a guy that makes stickers in Barcelona. Does that cover vinyl stickers? What if you need a thin sticker that can be lacquered over? What are you using to lacquer your parts? Or who do you go to to do it for you? What about laser marking? Usually, over here, people (or small companies) are specialists in a certain field. They have that field covered. When you are trying to make something new, you suddenly face a lot of challenges and need to find solutions (suppliers) for that you don't know. THAT's the 'problem' with making stuff in Europe. We do not have these big factories that do things by the turnkey principle. But that is also our potential advantage as that way we can make higher end, more adaptable, more custom products if needed.

I think all of this was explained on a VitalMTB podcast with Cesar if I remember correctly. The story was that if you go to Asia, you order a frame with all the details and get a box with the finished product delivered to your door. The manufacturing company handles mold and frame manufacturing, procuring the stickers, lacquering and the boxes. They have all the suppliers up to speed, products tested and all the requirements know. When you're doing that in Spain, on your own, you have to start from the beginning. Making the mold and the frame might be the easiest part when you have no idea where to even get someone to supply stickers and boxes. That was the story.

This is easy to test. Just assemble the wheel (with the wipers removed) and THEN remove the internals. With the wheel assembled. Then you can check the alignment.

My Zeb is sticking without a wheel installed but completely free running WITH a wheel in the lowers and the axle tightened.

Therefore we need a silver EX511.

How come we can have use categories standardised in the ASTM standard, yet for the loads and design of parts the only standard that we have is the ISO standard covering 'road' and 'MTB' use? I get it we don't need more stringent standards per-se given what ISO represents, but what bugs me is this gap between the standardised(!) categories of use without the appropriate load cases to achieve said category.

@PeakHopper: back in the imperial days, the inline shock was a Monarch and the piggyback version was the Monarch Plus. Fox does it as Float and Float X. So don't see the problem with Deluxe vs. Super Deluxe if I'm honest... The Select, + and Ultimate are confusing though.

@IllestT: quallies are up to 150 riders per wave (at least in 2019 and 2021) with the top 3 from each wave going to the first row of start A, second 3 to the second row, etc., for a total of 12 rows (350 riders), then the same is repeated from rider placing 36th in the qually group for start B and so on.

FWIW, a different division of the company designed and developed (but does not manufacture) the SL motors compared to these units.

@somebody-else: the catch is that EFBE has definitions for testing to cater to these categories. But they are not standards per-se. Unless something changed?