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But this is just right! The Sorceress is excactly the bike meant to give a good ride to a dude. Female specific bike could be named The Wizard, which masterfully provides for all female riders needs. I am a straight guy, and I seriously considered buying "Juliana" bike instead of "Tall Boy" when interested in Santa Cruz offerings because it just felt more right to be riding it.

I am curious about this incident. What actually happened that this is possible. I mean it is assumed there was no permanent rim deformation (it was carbon right?) so what mechanism then throws all spoke tensions out of spec?

If it would just come out on its own and the only issue would be how to contain the pee it would be easy, but it isn't unfortunately. When you don't have the nerves going down there you can't open the bladder like you do when you pee and you need to force the semi-rigid hose all the way in to enable urine flow to prevent serious issues. That is not nice to have to do that...

@R-M-R: 1. You're imagining the fork compressed under the rider's weight prior to braking. Actually I am not. I am just assuming there is some sag, which is self evident, because otherwise there would not be anything to extend. I was just assuming normal geometry sag under bikes own weight. In which case the fork would extend violently when braking. Normal fork would still dive. And please don't go into "without the rider weight the front tire would just skid". This was just a thought experiment.

Exactly. Most of brake dive comes from rider weight, but this is to counter it. The leverage is tuned to counter it suitable amount. Think of it this way: Without the rider weight, this fork would violently extend immediately when brakes are applied. With rider weight it should just not dive.

This unsprung mass reasoning is often too black and white. Like in this case, yes the shock moves ”a bit” with the swingarm but the effect to the inertia of the whole suspension system is negligible because it’s so close to pivot point. A bit like people who keep reminding us that hubs are ”rotational mass”. Well yes technically so, but completely, and I mean completely irrelevant in the rotating mass optimization of any bicycle.

He might have done just fine starting from the front row or second one. The need (and the physical ability to do so) to pass dozens of riders before the front group gets away too far was what caught him. Not so much lacking riding skills for the course.

AI came and spoilt everything. Even this. Now you always doubt, at least a bit. :-(

It does not increase the torque even slightly.

Your R&D department must be completely burnt out after all these years committed to the these new products. They need a big bonus and a long paid leave to recover.