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Low pressure gang

Got the strongest butt pucker/clench reaction from #27 amd 29. Hate to see it. Can only imagine what it looked like 3rd person view. Hope they were able to walk that one out and continue, but doubt 29 did without some lasting trauma.

@totaltoads: Longer offset/rake forks on the smaller sizes, and shorter offset forks on the larger sizes too. I'm looking at the Trek Domane geo chart and it does have this, but it's subtler than I expected. I had a 650mm stack on my Enduro 29 and thought I'd want to lower it, but actually liked it better than my lower stack height bikes (in medium). Raising the grips even more felt better. I think that's because the bike had too much weight up front anyways. I'd expect someone wanting long CS or whatever, might find traction up front lacking. All points to the F:R balance being one thing we want to get tuned right, but it's hard to since it's affected by rider body and riding style. Someone with a lot of weight around the waist is going to want more to compensate for the extra weight toward the rear (waist is generally behind the CoG).

You prob are thinking longer headtube, as if they're not scaling up enough per size. I got berated for suggesting size specific HTA as an alternative. Slacker than normal HA for smaller sizes. Steeper for big riders. HTA is a sacred cow, though, moreso than cs length or any other. Cult like beliefs... It would offer higher stack, make it so there's less traction loss up front, so you don't need to wish for 480mm cs length if you're big. It shortens that 1300mm wheelbase so it comes alive at a lower and more normal speed. Trails have a "natural speed limit" based mostly on traction limits anyway. It's no coincidence that big guys downsize and find little reason to go big, but many deep down want long travel for bigger hit capability. This idea will better enable that. To get f/r balanced wt distro, can think of it as centering the rider between wheels to get a certain ratio of ground pressure thru frame geo. Added Cs length moves the rear wheel away from cranks to put more pressure front. I like no less than 60% on rear, but I want to get wheels off ground without suffering from excessive front traction issues cornering. Can counter looping on climbs with a STA--minimize the fact that sitting puts more wt on rear than standing. As a side effect, suspension tuning is less compromised between the two positions. Aren't compelled to run soft fork from seated pov, which turns too soft standing.

#48 I love seeing the crumple zone action

I had a flashback to Gee Atherton's ridgeline crash, seeing ass -> rear wheel

I rode a Haibike at a demo and experienced it accelerate on a compression, due to pedal kickback and my feet staying level. It used one of those old Bosch motors with the tiny chainring in 2017ish. I suspected this was a thing when I rode an Evil Following and it accelerated in the rough, but made my knees ache after long pedal days.

First priority: grip. I don't trust the reliability of grip of any pins other than the set screw kind. The hole on top and threads seem to allow crud to be displaced in case I hiked through slop, like some water crossing. Second priority: smooth and quiet. I don't want the my shoes to squeak on any exposed axle. That'd drive me nuts. I suspect some dirt jumper pedals purposely have drag, to keep them from spinning with foot off pedal when doing tricks or whatever, but actually don't mind too much as long as it's smooth. Third: stability. I don't want my foot hanging half off the pedal. I don't want it collapsing forward either. Pedals that have pins offset forward, relative to the axle, are kinda pushing it for my mid foot position. I know this is like 90% of mtb flats, and 100% for feet hanging off the outboard side. I cope with pedal extenders for my outward angled feet.

Love seeing the weirdoes not even matching left and right side. Yea, socks and gloves aren't a big deal, but itd be amusing seeing grips, brake levers, shoes, pedals, etc. differ on each side.

Had an Evil Following v1 and it had so much kickback that my knees were aching from the unneccessary shock. I think it had so much that just holding the pedals level made it accelerate on compressions. I had tried emtbs that actually kicked back so much that the motor tried to engage its assist from the kickback.