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In terms of news articles another sensibly priced and specced bike isnt really going to be worth a story and would need them publishing multiple articles each day.
How many articles on the front page about this irrelevant nonsense? It didn't used to be like this.
I'd love to see some tests of 'sensibly priced and specced' bikes.
Real people, ha, it's a bloody magazine! 🤣
How many articles on the front page about this irrelevant nonsense? It didn’t used to be like this.
All bike websites carry the same stories - Pinkbike, Bikeradar, singletrackworld etc. You find identical topics all the time. Presumably they have to compete, but same content on all sites is boring.
Product news and sponsored riders video stuff may be the same, it's why I go to Pinkbike first, but they don't get or create the UK stuff that makes STW different.
And Bikeradar is a world of roadie pants. ( just my opinion).
“How many articles on the front page about this irrelevant nonsense? It didn’t used to be like this.”
I’m sorry but we’ve never been the magazine you think we were.
All I want is a bar mounted lockout for my rear shock.
MTB's are woefully engineered as it is, I don't wan't some woefully written code randomly adjusting rebound/compression based on the last bump it hit.
Did I miss anyone inventing an integrated lock out & dropper lever? When you drop the saddle it opens up the fork and shock and that's it. The usual issue with lockouts is that you've forgotten to unlock them after a climb, so dropping the seat is a big clue that it's time to get loose. Probably doable for less than 3 grand and N years work, and you'd still need the right fork/shock/dropper to use it so they'd still make a few quid.
(yes I know that's not quite the point of the live valve but...)
Ah OK - shows how easy it is to miss these things when they don't get blanket coverage from the mags and websites 🙂
I know the Specialized Brain only does the rear shock (although didn't their Future Shock do front and rear?) but I wonder how much different in feel this is to the Brain system.
I've got it on my Stumpjumper FSR and really like it. Rock solid on firm stuff and opens as soon as things get bumpy.
Like the "kill switch", I bet with some bodging you could make one of those.
Is it worth doing? Nah. Still like the idea though.
I think they’d qualify as more ‘real’ than most people on here. They still want to hear about the shiny stuff occasionally… They’ve got nice bikes too.
My mates are more 'real' than your mates... Awesome 🙂
Mavic did electronic shifting 20 years ago. Everybody laughed when it failed to make it big.
Look at shifting now in the TDF......
I don’t wan’t some woefully written code randomly adjusting rebound/compression based on the last bump it hit.
It doesn't adjust rebound and compression, it only locks the fork out on smooth stuff and unlocks it when you hit a bump.
My mates are more ‘real’ than your mates… Awesome
Yeah, what an absolute arsehole. Me, that is.
Apologies, Barney. Chipps too. Completely unnecessary and well out of order.
Sorry for being a dick. 😶
It's been an interesting outpouring...
I for one am looking forward for a review of 3 second hand steel hardtails with mismatched groupsets not for sale any more.