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Who do you think is going to buy the Lyrik, your average trail rider who runs a Pike/34? Let's see what the highest voted comment on the pinkbike article has to say, with some 479 upvotes.
You had one job rockshox, just one job, and you done ****** it up. The lyrik should have been a single crown boxxer, not a pike with 20mm extra travel. 20mm axle and a 26" option. Thats all we wanted.
There is clearly a market for a single crown for the Dh/Freeride crowd.
The thing is from my point of view there are people who have set opinions, regardless of what changes they will say 20mm, Coil Springs, Fat Stachions blah blah blah.
What if in a blind test you couldn't tell the difference? What if RS managed to do something that worked and was what people wanted it to feel like but didn't have the right things written on the side. Like all the threads writing bikes off because the measurement/angle isn't what people think it should be, forget riding it or trying it if the numbers are wrong then it's wrong.
No 26" Lyriks? But you can put one on a 29er?
What is wrong with these people?
Who do you think is going to buy the Lyrik, your average trail rider who runs a Pike/34? Let's see what the highest voted comment on the pinkbike article has to say, with some 479 upvotes.
If the industry based every development on what got upvotes on PB then everything really would look like a Trek and cost 10p. Maybe, sometimes, research and development trumps internet opinion.
Let's see what the highest voted comment on the pinkbike article has to say
It's times like this we really need a facepalm smiley on here.
I understand your grumbles, but I can also totally see why RS have gone the way they have with this.
Think about it. How many riders are gonna have a DH bike and a burly enduro bike? And how many are gonna have a shorter travel trail bike plus an enduro bike?
I reckon there will be lot more people looking to share wheels between two 15mm axle forks.
Than and they have reduced the number of lower spes by 50%.