A few months ago a head line came up on one of my Facebook pages about a new US bike brand (I thought it was on the STW page at the time). It was making a big deal about it being a small band of friends/industry experts who have all come together from high pedigree bike backgrounds. It also made a fuss about their first bike being a 65Ob bike as opposed to 29er and the suspension system not being the usual DW Link or VPP (but was named after the system designer), it went on to interview the designer of the suspension system and raved about the performance of the bike. The finished bike was blue and looked pretty good.
For the life of me I cannot find the article or bike brand again. I've searched through loads of FB pages for STW, NSMB, Enduro Mountain Bike Magazine etc. and I've searched for ages on the 'tinterweb'.
It's driving me mad, so if anyone recalls it and can post a link my madness for now will be kept at bay !
Cheers
Sick?
Guerilla Gravity?
Revel my man, revel.
Beaten too it! Revel! IIRC guys from Rockshox, Trust(!), Intense (I think) possibly something to do with Canfield, and loads more I can't remember. Cool looking bikes.
To be fair, that sounds like every bike brand ever.
And isn't it just a DW/Maestro linkage with a shock strut?
Nothing inherently wrong with that, just sounds like you drank a lot of press release cool aid. Nothings new under the sun.
Also, not even an original brand name, they've just dropped the last l (or the penultimate?) off Revell bikes!
Great tourers in the 80s
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I'm not sure I'm arsed about pedalling efficiency when I'm bottomed out, tbh
That's the one, thank fork for that & thanks everyone it was driving me nutz. Nice bike too !
They look like nice bikes but I struggle to understand the benefit of keeping the instant centre on where the driving half of the chain comes off the chainring.l as you go through the travel. The short link designs which drop the instant centre lower through the travel have much lower kickback and still good antisquat.