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MRP locked up the PTFE. Panopticon acheived! Might be a typo though.

@atestisthis: this is pretty intricate for a cast design. Mattel and hotwheels must be jealous.

Just 3d print a plastic fender that integrates around the arch. Mud collection problem and aerodynamic problem solved.

@Spunk: sometimes they just hold onto the stock, repaint the frame and call it next years

@justinfoil: well, yes and no, you could compensate with spacers. But as far as the overall spring curve, a fair few of the flex stay bikes try to add spring at the top and reduce spring rate at bottom out - more linear, and also better off the top pedaling... sometimes it doesn't quite mesh with the size of the negative spring on the aircan. Spring, damper and kinematics combine to make quite different bikes...

Actually when the pivot flexes the most influences the spring rate... flex pivots can feel very different from identically placed pivots, especially across different shock pressures or maybe even spring rates

I lost two shocks to a design like this... both the aluminum and titanium mounting bolts that replaced the broken aluminum bolts bent and seized...

5,000 miles on stans arch's before the rim holes fatigued and cracked (all 28 at onces basically, one more than the others) Roughly 3500 miles on some carbon rims from a company that no longer exists, roughly 150 miles of which were in whistler 3600 miles on my 24 hole gravel carbon (Synergy branded) front wheel, fatigue and delamination, rear with 28 holes is okay but damaged from potholes Over 10 ft to flat on my Nextie carbon front bmx rim, still going string despite some bent spokes from that and a bent steerer tube Carbonfan mtb rims cracked at the nipples, 3000 miles, currently used to install rimpact inserts Stans flow 26 inch 28 hole, about 1500 miles on my xc bike, currently being used as the spare on my dirtjumper, not dead yet Stans flow 29 that replaced my arch under warranty i think made it 3500 miles So I am not really getting any extra life out of carbon except on the bmx bike for which i have ovalized multiple aluminum rims in short order. I should probably start building my own wheels with washers...

I am not thinking the look is really ugly, it is slim looking, but that color is hard to pull off. My POC is that color and I like the color itself but it looks weird next to my skin tone in photos - not a problem in full length dh attire but still weird and doesn't really fit in with anything.

@valrock: haha, are you talking about the lifetime rim warranty you can buy from light bicycle? Cause you could for an extra $200. The quality is not really questionable on those 900 chinese wheelsets. Its the dearth of other off brand companies that pop in and out of exist for roughly two thirds the price of that