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this is most welcome news - the sixfinity setup is freaking amazing and it is superior to switch infinity by miles even if it is heavier. Ican but dread to imagine what these will cost though - even dentists will be in denial as they swipe their credit cards.

hm, weird that they wouldn't offer you a new shock considering the repeated issues - being outside of warrenty or not. The shock was clearly faulty from the off set given its history where they cannot exclude that follow on issues were linked to the initial issues. Wrt the warrenty periode - time should be added for the time you would have had to wait for the initial issues to be sorted out (sent in, repaired, sent back) - so "just" looking at the purchasing date seems like a very simplistic and short term approach ensuring that you will never support them in the future, nor recommend them to anybody else. Poor CS for sure and a lousy sales/marketing strategy for a premium product.

I've primarily ridden Push 11/6s, Float X2s and Storia (V3 and e-bike) the last five-six years, with a few rides on Fox' lighter air offerings as well. I have never been able to have the Fox stuff ride as well as I wanted it to, meaning anything close to the 11/6 wrt traction and suppleness. My favorite is the Storia though, that tracks for days but feels just magic. Controlled, predictable, supple and provides heaps of traction as well. Sure, it huffs and puffs like Thomas the Tank Engine, but I do not really mind. 11/6s ride very well as well, but mutes the trail a bit too much and they are not willing to tune the shock to be used with Cascade Links - which is just dumb. So in summary - the most notable thing with the Storia is not its list of features, but its ride feel - which is just superb if you are particular to that feel.

great move from the team - though it is kinda sad that an overall winner from the juniors are so stript for support that she can so easily be included in a team two years on. I'd have a hard time seeing that happening in the mens' category. Pity.

yeah, it is kinda odd to set up something that is arguably quantitative - a timed test - but then resort to qualitative "feel" metrics for the rest, all the while throwing in statements like perhaps the other bikes would have been faster on a rougher track so they must be superior. Well, why not set up a tougher timed track and find out? Great content nonetheless, but I am very surprised that they could not get the YT to work for them. Perhaps a coil shock and a larger size for the brit would have made the difference - who knows.

@fullendurbro: the YT does not have a poor suspension design, in spite of the endless harping on it in these videos. It has a highly progressive setup that will feel very different than bikes like for intstance the low leverage GT (that gives up vertical travel relatively easily to provide horisontal speed). YT's rear ends are so progressive that they kinda gel better with coil shocks, but still - I am very surprised that they were not able to tune the highly tunable X2 to give the kind of suppleness highly progressive designs are designed to give. Their issue is to use all the travel, not get the initial suppleness dialed - so I am kind of at a loss at what can cause this in this case. But "a poor suspension design" it is not.

@mikelevy: what is your point? Honestly confused here. If your point is concerning effective vs actual - well, that point will not counter the point I was trying at all. Next time, please reference what it is in the link you post that you want the person to read - not just post a link with a 382 comment rabbit hole.

Re the bike feel: the Capra has a really progressive rear. As such, there is tons of bottom out resistance built into the design. This also makes for a ride where you kinda have to fight the bike a bit riding in terrain that you do not know so well. Jack Moir explains this really, really well in his video where he explains why he went with a Strive over a Torque. What YT high progression rear ends do not lack though is small bump sensitivity. So if that is how it felt then either the shock settings or possibly sag are way off or the progressive nature of a highly progresseive system where you have to really push the bike to get deep into the travel. I kinda had the same feeling with my Jeffsy29er - albeit built up as a mini-enduro bike with 160mm up front and an ElevenSix coil in the rear - where you have this feeling that there is less travel out back, yet you can go fast as hell and the rear end somehow manages to keep up with all but the largest of hits (150mm of high progressive travel feels a lot different than say Yeti's way less progressive approach with the same amount of travel).

The point you guys make in the video about the dropper post is just plain wrong. A more upright seat angle means that a 150mm stroke post will drop more on the vertical plane than the same post would do with a slacker post. So a 150mm post on a frame with a steeper seat tube could in fact yield more vertical travel than a longer post on a slacker bike. If the point is that one is wanting the post to go more forward and away from the rider, well, that is not possible on these steeper seat angle bikes - and a point that has less to do with the amount of drop with the post.

@friendlyfoe: yeah, not really. Linkage designs are all about compromises - trading performance in a given parameter for performance in another. It is not hard to imagine that a slightly different set of compromises - caused by a different top link - could yield more optimized performance for a set of users.