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rad8
- Member since Sep 10, 2008
- Male / 52
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Calgary , Alberta - 15 Followers
- 4 Trailforks Points
Gotta do something when I'm not skiing
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rad8 Dario-DiGiulio's article
Jul 31, 2026 at 13:38
Jul 31, 2026
First Ride: Maxxis Unveils New Minion DHX & Reinvented Downhill Casing
909 cornered so well!
rad8 Dario-DiGiulio's article
Jul 18, 2026 at 23:00
Jul 18, 2026
Poll: What Would You Change About Bike Geometry?
@cru-jones: I'm with you. Nearly perfect bike for me is a 2020 Patrol. 500 reach and 430 stays. Best cornering bike for me, and crucially, I need a bike to go off slow tech drops and do proper bunny hops under duress, for which I find even 434 stays to be too long.
I find that the business about size specific chainstays is mostly just talking about an idea that sounds good. I've taken two different sized frames and swapped the chain stays. On the XL I find the long stays to be unwieldy, and ironically the long stays felt much better on the medium. To the point where I actually get what people are talking about regarding long stays being an improvement, for medium frames. But it doesn't work on an XL for the way I ride.
And yeah if you're straight lining and not trying to manage tight trails, or just riding cross country style or enduro without needing to j-hop, then any bike will be great with long stays.
Selling
Jul 5, 2026 at 10:36
Jul 5, 2026
Maxxis Ardent 2.4 exo tr
$40 CADBeen used in a tubeless setup. 27.5 Maxxis Ardent with some life left. I find this makes for a super fast rolling rear tire. Maxxis calls it a front, but like most of their "fronts" it works best as a rear. Pickup in the NW near Market Mall
rad8 Mandownmedia's article
May 30, 2026 at 12:29
May 30, 2026
Downhill Tech Randoms III: Loudenvielle DH World Cup 2026
That's the prototype tire? Why no shoulder channel? Instead, why not just relabel the DHR as DHF and then we're good...
rad8 edspratt's article
May 30, 2026 at 8:49
May 30, 2026
Results: Elite Q2 Qualifying at the Loudenvielle DH World Cup
@ebikederangementsyndrome: or at least have two different colours for the right and left sides
rad8 Dario-DiGiulio's article
May 29, 2026 at 7:28
May 29, 2026
Canyon Releases 2026 Torque AL, a 180mm Freeride Machine for Only 3999€
@mattg95: haha, missing the point. I'm tall so I want a long reach, but for my riding style I want short stays. I'm not just talking, I'm committed...
The bike I'm on now: I bought two bikes and swapped the stays between medium and XL frames. I ride the XL and it's exactly the bike I want to ride (sold the medium to someone who was very happy about it).
And I happen to be very pissed that I had to get two bikes just because of current ideas about size-specific stays, mostly determined by people who ride medium or relatively short reach large frames and so they don't know how the XL rides with long stays (yeah it plows but it is extremely difficult to get height on an actual j-hop style bunnyhop); so I'm definitely in the mood to say f@ck everyone here, I've tried all the geometries for the trails I ride, I know what I want, and I don't give two shits anymore
rad8 Dario-DiGiulio's article
May 28, 2026 at 18:21
May 28, 2026
Canyon Releases 2026 Torque AL, a 180mm Freeride Machine for Only 3999€
Yessss! Skip size-specific stays and just make them all adjustable. Dipshits can put long stays on their long bikes and those of us that like to bunny hop and manual and all that "freeride" shit from back in the day can ride long bikes with short stays
rad8 mikekazimer's article
Apr 7, 2026 at 9:17
Apr 7, 2026
First Ride: The 2027 RockShox Zeb and Lyrik Add Features, Weight
stoked on a more linear spring so that the rebound damping is consistent! I don't like the feeling when the spring overpowers the damping and then bucks, exactly when I don't want it too
rad8 mikekazimer's article
Dec 8, 2025 at 14:20
Dec 8, 2025
Review: 2026 Intense Spider - The Slalom Specialist
@GrahamHam: how is co-rotating VPP different from DW link or Maestro?
rad8 jessie-mmorgan's article
Nov 5, 2025 at 10:56
Nov 5, 2025
What’s the Most Compliant MTB Handlebar? [Updated With SQ Lab]
I have a brand new 2 inch rise bar with a 25.4 mm clamp diameter in my garage. I picked it up when low rise bars were starting to be all the rage and wanted to have a stash of normal rise bars. Seems that these are now the ideal bar... even more compliance than 31.8 (and yes, I did notice an increase in stiffness when I converted from 25.4 to 31.8).
