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This is awesome. Live nearby and cannot wait to go check it out! Nice work everybody in Inglewood and at Grow Cycling!

@dpbradley: No argument, and everyone in this comment section has felt the sensation of wheel flop climbing a slack mountain bike up a steep hill. Totally agree, high trail numbers instantly suck when the bicycle isn't on a level or downhill surface and doesn't have momentum pulling the wheel straight, and like you said those steep climbs are where the KIS system seems most helpful. My complaint was with the Canyon engineer's implication that cars have a device to self-center their steering and bicycles don't, which is ridiculous. Even worse, there's an implication that Canyon stumbled across this basic engineering principle and Canyon alone has adopted it to cycling, when in fact steering trail on bicycles predates the incorporation of pedals and gears. Bikes have had steering trail since before they were even called bikes.

Astounded that steering trail wasn't brought up anywhere in the article. Push your bike with no rider on a grassy field and watch it continue to steer upright and not fall over. Dark magic?

@Mtbdialed: honest question: when was your bad experience with FTF? They’ve had a complete makeover of management in the last ten years and I think they’re the best shop in the city. I know back back in the day it was a whole different story and I’ve heard nightmare stories. If it’s been a while, you should consider giving them another try.

@wolftwenty1: I think Benoit's riding style and technique are both endlessly interesting, but Occam's razor tells me that a young rider on the come up is pushing hard and crashing a lot as he learns how to race at the highest level, instead of interpolating some meta-theory from his elbow position. Thibaut Daprela is another young French rider who's explosively fast but wildly inconsistent because of crashes, often front tire washouts. Does that mean there's some achilles heel in Thibaut's riding technique, or can we settle for the much simpler explanation that he's young and likes rolling the dice? Also, from a coaching perspective, Benoit's riding style is very, very, very similar to the other top guys. I've heard this argument a million times, i.e. "their riding style is completely different," even from very strong pro racers, and I've always hated it. If Benoit and Loic and Thibaut are doing a thousand little things with their body position on their bikes, 990 of them are the same. It's true that we can identify differences between riders, and those differences are super interesting because they can create wins and losses (although they often don't). But nonetheless, everyone in the top 60 at a World Cup is doing *almost* everything the same because technique and knowledge have converged and there aren't that many different ways to win a downhill race. Watch a World Cup, then watch Friday Fails, and once you're done watching both try to tell me with a straight face that Benoit's riding style "is nothing like the other top guys."

@wolftwenty1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias#:~:text=Confirmation%20bias%2C%20a%20phrase%20coined,example%20of%20a%20cognitive%20bias.

@wolftwenty1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tg6e2Y3IEUk

@wolftwenty1: that’s interesting because all the other French riders like Loic and Amaury always talk about how amazing Benoit’s cornering ability is when it come so up in interviews, like they’re in awe. Someone needs to let him know he sucks

Joshy Frotha is Ali G innit

@Broth-Ratchurch: Interestingly, that DRCV approach could be helpful with a long travel single crown fork that suffers from excessive end stroke ramp up, like the Zeb. Having a two chamber system where a second air chamber opens up deep in the travel could really mellow out a fork with an extreme bottom-out ramp up.