kpickrell

I have a nice old Kona Process 153 which I mulleted and run with a OneUp 210mm post. Can I maybe daisy-chain 2 or 3 of these together?

Also showing a T-shirt with "RideCOQS" on it similar to RideFOX would have been a nice touch, but might be going a bit far for some.

Agreed. If you can't "manual" off of a 6 inch curb at that same speed while landing with both wheels roughly at the same time, almost every time, you have no business trying something 4 feet plus drops.

For the effort put into this, why not hard-anodize the fancy little core piece? Now I mean the actual thick Type III anodizing "hard" like what is used on your fork stanchions.

Well, the asphalt tracks I've ridden are a different experience for sure. Nothing against Velosolutions. They truly are visionaries, pioneers, noble ambassadors, bringing pumptracks to the masses, but I have to say I prefer a dirt track (actually any dirt track) over an asphalt track any day. For me, as my skills have slowly progressed, better cornering on the trail has slowly revealed itself to be the ultimate goal for me. The holy grail I suppose. Finding and creating traction everywhere on the trail so you can go faster, maintain speed and flow and stay in control. Doing that on a dirt pump track will build those skills. You'll improve, you'll crash, dust yourself off and slowly start to find that traction that eludes you. I think a poorly maintained, loose, dusty, weedy, dirt track with squashed rollers can do a lot more to build those skills than a "perfect" asphalt track.

#19 sounds just like a cartoon where somebody takes a big bite out of something, no? Chomp?

Yes, they are nice. They should make a version with the "do not enter" symbol on them.

They machined (or reamed?) precisely the one area they should have left rough! They should have left the bar clamp areas rough to keep the bar from slipping. At least that would have been a useful feature...

@olngjnsn: "Would you like your nuts crushed?" "Hmmm, let me think... That is pricey but I guess I'll upgrade my flight attendant, thank you very much."

One additional thing that bugs me is the sharp bends the cable/housing needs to take. That third (or turd) photo with the translucent head tube shows what I mean. You're just going to have more friction and exacerbated wear on your nice PTFE coated derailleur cable and housing liner at those points. Or are they banking on everyone moving away from cable-actuated shifting maybe? Seems counter-productive given the talk I hear about rear mech's with more speeds getting more finicky these days.