This isn't the first time we've seen Sam Hill's Nukeproof Mega 275 Carbon, but the bike that has taken the 2017 Enduro World Series Championship as well as carried Sam to a 6th place at the DH World Championships in Cairns deserves another look.
Conceived four years ago and now available to the public, it's been a long road to get here. It has 165mm of rear travel delivered via a Horst Link suspension design, wider shock hardware to increase resistance to side loading, as was designed to be 1x specific to stiffen up the bottom bracket.
www.bikejames.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Flat-Pedal-Revolution-Manifesto-v3.pdf
Hope you like reading.
help a little more power make its way into the crank arms. And that shows up as increased pedaling
power in the lab and in certain racing situations"
Good read, but it still supports what I'm saying. The statement "Flat pedals are better and more economical for pedalling" is wrong.
I'm not against flat pedals. I tell everyone to start with riding them so they can build fundamental riding skills(another thing your article agrees with), but I'm going to call out bullshit when I see it. At the end of the day flats aren't faster than clipless, or vice versa. Riders are faster than other riders, and riders are fastest when they are comfortable on their bike.
I think that the findings used, in this report, were from experiments performed using inexperienced subjects. I would like to say that I think flat pedals are a great tool for learning proper cornering, and bike handling, techniques. But when it comes to strictly pedaling efficiency, the findings from the report do not agree with my own.
What do most people ride in winter when its super sketchy - Flats. When it's fast and you know the track its clips all the way.
Also agree that clipless are better if you’re against the clock, know the track and there is little chance of having to take a foot off. You can take advantage of the extra manouvreability afforded by being attached to the bike AND still use ‘proper’ technique whatever that bs is.
i.e using clipless pedals to move the bike around isn’t necessarily wrong or cheating.
And similar to my first point if you need to pedal during a run you can be sure you’re feet will stay put over rough terrain.
There’s a reason most people race with clipless pedals.
With clips I can ride anything.
I don't need to think of un-clipping, becayse its second nature for me now.
I admit that clipping in when I stopped on a steep point of the track is sometimes sketchy
To be fair, it was always pretty good straight after a service... for about two hours. So that's 12 hours a year of performance.
#Flatpedalswinsmedals
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Give me 25 mm rims then!
Great Pinkbike, I like this sort of humour!
i believe they are aimed at riders who prefer not to wear gloves?
Also those are mavic schrader adapters on the normal presta tubeless valve stems if I’m not mistaken.
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Yeesh, calm down.
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According to the great Waki, Sam Hill is a giant puss and should just quit riding if he cant man up.