Video: A Closer Look at Jamie Edmondson's Trek Slash Race Bike

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 If they make it so the paywall gets rid of these idiotic paywall comments I'm all in

 Prob have missed it but 32 rear pressure & 28 up front? I'm 200 lbs and find 27/24 is my sweet spot w/ cushcore on the roughest terrain (and yeah, I ain't this guy or ever will be) - just surprised to read those pressures. Nothing about inserts in this article though...

 @Mtn-Goat-13: I did see the numbers but if I ride with tyres that hard I look more like a ping-pong ball through every rock garden.

 @Erskine-Atom +1 here also
I run those tyre pressures too @jamieedmondson
*cough* only to get UP the 6km and 400vert hill at the start of the ride *cough* LOL

When is @Maxxis going to have the 2.5" DHR II available for the masses - more to the point!!

 @Erskine-Atom: hear ya on that! I'd often go lower than 27/24 in rockier places but it shreads the DD sidewalls faster and tires ain't getting cheaper... ping pong - effin hilarious!

 @Erskine-Atom: @Erskine-Atom: hear ya on that! I'd often go lower than 27/24 in rockier places but it shreads the DD sidewalls faster and tires ain't getting cheaper... ping pong - effin hilarious!

 @GLOB-2018: ditto on that w/ uphills. I've been going Assegai 2.5'' front / rear and I don't honestly think its any slower on downhills - I've beaten all of my former DH times on DHF/DHRs w/ double Assegai's (and also have some kom & t-10's, but that's just video game scores). Point being - the 2.5 Assegais are still bomber and w/ DD sidewalls, way stronger (in my view)

 Can't wait till this mullet fad is over.

 @Philthy503: Only a fad if you're worried what others think - we've been doing this in western NC since mid 2000's w/ 27 / 26 then 29 / 27 since and I love the smaller rear wheel for DH park days - way squirrely-er and more fun, whippy and 29's for speed needs otherwise. Love being able to switch back & forth - super fun. Don't worry about what others think and if you haven't tried it, give it a shot. You don't have to like it - the whole point is experiementing and if ya can't do that w/o everyone bitching & crying about it - then why ride. Even if it doesn't work at all (or for you) its stuff like this that is the stepping stone to new ideas - 9 of 10 things suck, then something works because of the steps it took to get there, not doing the same thing over & over.

 Finally some real life tire pressures

 Yep the videos such, I don't go to YouTube to read, and I don't go here to watch.

 It's nice because most of us can't read

 The ZEB presumably has a bigger volume air spring so will need lower pressures to provide the same support... I think??

 @mr-moose: That was my first thought too, but RS Trailhead recommends the same pressure for ZEB and Lyrik for a given rider weight

 I wouldn't compare like for like as these forks will be factory tuned (not for the masses)

 Not bottoming more than I want to be, 450lbs spring at 83kg is about perfect. Didn’t have any issues with bottoming out on the air shock when I tried it either though

 I am the same weight as you and I found I had to go way past treks recommended pressures and slow the rebound down one click, with two tokens.

Shockwiz and feel both put my sweet spot around 210psi, LR @ 4, and 2 tokens.

I also have a Rail and had to do the same on that.

 The through shaft part of the super deluxe ultimate is proprietary, but if you don't have a through shaft shock, its just spacers. Nothing special.

 It definitely can run normal hardware/normal shock (I believe you need 10mm offset 40 wide x 10mm ID pin) and a different bolt.

 I run fox dpx2 on slash

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 @jamieedmondson: Thanks a lot! Much appreciated.

 I’m a liability and once you’ve lost it mid ride once you don’t want it to happen again

 @jamieedmondson: I have a collection of those found at Whistler bike park.
It's common for them to come loose. I recommend the zip tie trick to Trek riders.

 @Yaan: at my local dj park its just valve caps and reflectors. one time i found a crank bolt (concerning)

 @Yaan: does it involve drilling through the link bolt?

 @ciechan: no they are hollow

 @Yaan: so how can you put a zip tie through if these are hollow?

 @ciechan: blow up the first picture of him standing with his bike look at the chain stay to rocker.
the fasteners thru the rocker connection are hollow. He has a zip tie through it.
that might not be the best pic, look on treks website you will see.

 @Yaan: gotcha. Original fasteners are not hollow, wondering if I should drill through them to put the zip tie

 83kg/181cm

 @jamieedmondson: or in the PB translator, 140lbs and 6ft 6inches

 @dubod22: Whut... it converts to 182lbs and 5'11

 @spudlord: Wooooosh

 @dubod22: I don't get it...
pinkbikers are all skinny and tall?
Pb doesn't do translations?
Explain plz.

 No inserts in the enduro bike for me, use cushcore on the dh but it’s too hard to get on/off if you have to change a tyre at the bottom of a stage and it’s pretty heavy

 @jamieedmondson: Just out of curiosity what is the purpose of the hand / grip protectors from Acerbis? I had them in moto for branches but Ive never found it a concern in MTB

 @lastminutetech: half for protecting my levers because if you break one mid EWS it’s pretty much game over and half for when you clip the hard plastic ski poles they use to mark out the tracks. Generally I wouldn’t run them at home just at the races

 @jamieedmondson: ahhhh gotcha, thx!

 @jamieedmondson: interesting. Thanks!

 I think he said no for enduro (too heavy, too long to change flat) but yes for dh

 @ibishreddin: word -missed it, thx for the heads up