Newly Released Suspension & Components General

[Rorschach]

I'm happy to be first to try these, after 3 other people have test ridden and confirmed they aren't going to kill me.

 

[kten]

Also have an alternative lever design which looks like it might have a banjo connection at the lever? Hard to see in the mages but note that the hose can point in any direction.
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They've even copied the Piccola's...chinese engineering at its best. Good luck to those trying them. If they fail I hope they do so gradually.

 

[shiny]

Isn’t the ‘twin tube’ thing about separating compression and rebound damping?

Anyway, I don't get this shock. Air shocks are becoming more coil-like (big aircan to be more linear) and coils are becoming more air-like (Hydraulic bottom out and progressive springs) and bike manufacturers have found a happy place to deliver a kinematic that works with air or coil (around 25-30% progression in shock rate) yet we now need this?

If it’s got all the seals associated with an air shock then i call bullshit on it being as ‘supple as a coil’. And if you need a shit-tonne of ramp up because your frame has a really low leverage ratio then just stick with air. This seems unnecessary, overly complex and expensive. Now that I type that, I’m realising they’ll sell plenty…

Price is not as high as I thought. $1460. Still too high - I think I read somewhere seals are kept to a minimum but still an interesting product but I would just get a coil or air unless my frame had a weird suspension curve that called for it.

DB TIGON Coil - Select Eye to Eye & Stroke - Cane Creek

DB TIGON Coil - Select Eye to Eye & Stroke - Cane Creek

www.dirtworksb2b.com.au

 

[kten]

$339 USD a set delivered.
I have some real brakes coming, they aren’t trickstuff though. I should bite the bullet and just buy a set so I’ll never buy cheap brakes again. You could sell me a set?

Yes you should bite the bullet.

 

[kten]

Video: 8 Enduro Field Test Bikes Hucked to Flat - Pinkbike

Driveside and non-driveside slow-mo shots for your viewing pleasure.

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And still the biggest forks available flex hard on the huck to flat reinforcing the benefit of USD forks. Be so good to have an Intend or a Dorado in there for comparison. And a Mezzer for that matter just because.

 

[Wake Jake]

Video: 8 Enduro Field Test Bikes Hucked to Flat - Pinkbike

Driveside and non-driveside slow-mo shots for your viewing pleasure.

www.pinkbike.com

And still the biggest forks available flex hard on the huck to flat reinforcing the benefit of USD forks. Be so good to have an Intend or a Dorado in there for comparison. And a Mezzer for that matter just because.

Maybe I should do this test at home with the above forks. Get some comparisons Big fat lowers, long A2C and lack of bushing overlap seems to be current recipe.

 

[shiny]

Wolftooth take on the stick dropper remote. Pricey but similar to the Yep Components one. Wonder how long till we see a Ali copy.

ReMote 360

Wolf Tooth ReMote 360 is a joystick-style dropper lever that can be installed almost anywhere on the handlebars. It is compatible with all cable-actuated dropper posts. The lever can be pushed or pulled in any direction with a thumb or index finger. The clamp can be rotated 360º around the bars...

www.wolftoothcomponents.com

 

[dancaseyimages]

Maybe I should do this test at home with the above forks. Get some comparisons Big fat lowers, long A2C and lack of bushing overlap seems to be current recipe.

@ozzybmx huck to flat on the eeb would be a cool test. Weight and gravity would make for some interesting review content

 

[Scotty675]

Wolftooth take on the stick dropper remote. Pricey but similar to the Yep Components one. Wonder how long till we see a Ali copy.

ReMote 360

Wolf Tooth ReMote 360 is a joystick-style dropper lever that can be installed almost anywhere on the handlebars. It is compatible with all cable-actuated dropper posts. The lever can be pushed or pulled in any direction with a thumb or index finger. The clamp can be rotated 360º around the bars...

www.wolftoothcomponents.com

They look good. I just ordered one to compare to the YEP joystick. Now who needs a YEP I seem to have 2 new spares

 

[shiny]

They look good. I just ordered one to compare to the YEP joystick. Now who needs a YEP I seem to have 2 new spares

Full report by Monday The offset mount is interesting. Took me a while to get used to the Yep after using a thumb only for so many years but I like it.

 

[pink poodle]

Wolftooth take on the stick dropper remote. Pricey but similar to the Yep Components one. Wonder how long till we see a Ali copy.

ReMote 360

Wolf Tooth ReMote 360 is a joystick-style dropper lever that can be installed almost anywhere on the handlebars. It is compatible with all cable-actuated dropper posts. The lever can be pushed or pulled in any direction with a thumb or index finger. The clamp can be rotated 360º around the bars...

www.wolftoothcomponents.com

I have a very similar lever to this on an (very old) old x-fusion dropper.

 

[Scotty675]

Full report by Monday The offset mount is interesting. Took me a while to get used to the Yep after using a thumb only for so many years but I like it.

Once used to them they are great. Such a light action. I like the look of the wolf tooth bit more grip on the lever.

 

[shiny]

Once used to them they are great. Such a light action. I like the look of the wolf tooth bit more grip on the lever.

Took some tweaking to position in the right spot as I ride with my hands on the outer part of the grip but once sorted it’s been great.

 

[shiny]

Ummm…

SaddleSpur’s New Saddle, Presented Without Comment of Any Sort - Pinkbike

No comment.

www.pinkbike.com

 

[Rorschach]

Ummm…

SaddleSpur’s New Saddle, Presented Without Comment of Any Sort - Pinkbike

No comment.

www.pinkbike.com

Also discussed on Escape Collective
Silly saddles, an incomplete history - Escape Collective

 

[shiny]

Also discussed on Escape Collective
Silly saddles, an incomplete history - Escape Collective

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I think they have been watching too much South Park.

 

[Rorschach]

I think they have been watching too much South Park.

Someone in the PB comments certainly has:

 

[cammas]

Someone in the PB comments certainly has:
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[Rorschach]

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Thats the other one I saw too

 

[Live2DieTrying]

Isn’t the ‘twin tube’ thing about separating compression and rebound damping?

Twin tube means the damper body is made from 2 tubes, 1 inside the other. Allowing a 'circulating' oil path through the shock/fork damper.
TPC (twin piston cartridge) is the seperation of rebound/compression into 2 seperate valves/pistons. Although some TPC designs use a 'midvalve' on the back of the rebound piston to generate compression damping too...

By the look of the picture I posted, the new CC Tigon is laid out like a typical air shock. Single damper body attached to the lower eyelet, primary valving on main piston, oil flows through the damper shaft into secondary valving then reservoir.