A quick video of the previously-unseen Fox Racing Shox testing lab, including a recreation of one of Justin Leov’s World Cup downhill runs that Fox engineers datalogged so that they can recreate race conditions, much like Formula One engineers can recreate particular race tracks.
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Check out the big hit at 03.53…
With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)
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the musics too loud, cant hear a word chipps is saying.
ignore above 😉
You didn’t leave iTunes running in the background, did you? 😉
I’ll speak up next time though…
Great video.
That heavy hit seems to be recreating a jump and heavy landing. I wonder, can they measure this from an actual run (monitoring and storing the fork speed and compression whilst riding a section) and then load that recorded ‘terrain’ into the machine? Or do they just turn the dial to “random brutality”?
The amount of fore and aft play in that first bit of footage is terrifying. It’s amazing anything survives that. All credit to the fork manufacturers. We take it all so for granted.
That Fox 40 run is the recreation of an actual World Cup run, as measured on Leov’s bike, with the terrain being ‘played back’ through the fork back in the lab.
Great stuff. I love ‘behind the scenes’ stuff like this – gives the RRP whingers something to think about when we all get to see the amount of tech involved.
Could you speak up a bit I appear to have gone deaf.
love it, we need more stuff like this please 🙂