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@chrod: This was 100% worth a watch. Laughing so hard and imagining the tricked out goobers on 15k bikes.

@vinay: True, very little side wall support. I've torn through tires (EXO+) and the side wall of a Tannus. They do help a little with pinch flats but ultimately its the ease of installation that is a huge selling point. If anyone is in a place with cacti I wonder if the Tannus makes sense?

It fills my heart with joy to see people dig. No dig no ride because the sport does not exist without digging. If you want a free ticket to ride then go skiing and wait for the snow to fall but if you ride bikes you better dig. Looks like solid work too on a trail I love. Donate, dig, delight in bikes. Much love Squamish crew!

Yeah, good on Fanatik but what information other than number of lab tested cycles does it give us? Number of cycles under consistent load = numbers of cycles under consistent load. Try to extrapolate beyond that and you'll run into issues and probably unfulfilled expectations. Was a comparison to other shocks under the same conditions tested? Real world implications involves a lot of contaminants and possible egress into the shock. Cycling a shock in real world has different velocities, how would this change the outcome? What effect(s) would temperature differences in the shocks environment produce? So many other questions. In the end this type of testing is thinly veiled marketing. Cool marketing, I like to see the tests but with added rigour and controls. Save your hands, have a piston perform the labour, have comparison studies add a simulated trail environments for the test rig. If you want bonus points introduce different vectors and cross loading the shock. Ooooor we all go ride our bikes and find out how the 1000 dollar plus shock does. Cool Sram commercial though.

@zede: I fall victim to the same hubris as Icarus. Maybe it could be better? For instance they could move the bleed port rear facing like the new gen of shimano brakes or add a shimano branles bleeding edge port. Then again, maybe they change it and I loss the availability of my favourite brakes.

@shredddr: Run Saints on all my bikes. Crisp and reliable. They have also been out with a great track, literally world cup track, record for the better part of a decade.

@jomacba: Awkward sentence structure on my part. Sram has an easy bleeding process. "Like Sram" is the example.

@Roost66: My bad, wrong place and time. I will wait for the Shimano deep dive.