Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

My 160/170, coil/air enduro bike stops dead, my girlfriends 170/170, air/air enduro bike bounces.

We cranked her rebound right down as an experiment and it still bounced.

I think it’s mainly tyres.

In what way? Allegations about cause of death?

Which one is heavier?

Mine, by a significant margin

My nomad coil/coil, Cush core, dh casing nomad bounces. I’ve put more time into tuning the rear suspension than anyone would believe. I’m fairly sure it’s set up well 🤷‍♀️
My heavy coil dh bike bounces even more.

With me in top of them, they both ride fine.

I'll see what the Jibb does when I've built it up - it's sat in it's box next to the sofa right now ahead of the potential new owner test riding the Pace tomorrow.

This is the clip I saw, for reference:

https://www.instagram.com/reel/ChSZq1Kl608/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

I don't really see the point of this 'testing' but what if you drop some airpressure of the forks and shock of your girlfriend's bike?

Why not also lower tyre pressure to reduce the bounce?

This demonstration/test feels like the person who shows you how long their wheels spin for but they have no preload in the bearings so not really in a useable state.

Take the chain off would surely help and drop tyre pressure, though I’m not sure what it proves.

Can anyone recommend a decent value off road headlight for winter trails? I won’t ride the most hardcore stuff round here but some trails, rocky bits etc and since I had a brain injury and really bad vertigo I find I need more light than less to keep balance/ control.
Thanks

^^ I'm kind of coming to this backwards - my bike doesn't bounce, which I noticed getting it off the chairlifts in the PDS. Then that clip popped up on Instagram and made me wonder.

My previous bikes would (I'm sure) have bounced, but my Enduro bike is heavily orientated (no pun intended) toward going downhill as fast as possible, but I didn't deliberately set it up with the bounce test in mind, I didn't know about the bounce test when I set it up - I just configured it as I thought was appropriate.

Take the springs off your shocks, it definitely won't bounce then

New AXS stuff for you to throw money at @TotalShanner

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/spotted-srams-new-mtb-drivetrain-les-gets-xc-world-champs-2022.html

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I resent the way these words suggest that theres a carelessness in my axs buying habbits. I assure you it's all very carefully planned out with a shrewd thriftiness!
Anyway... wanna see my new red axs power meter? No?

I'd already seen this on the WheelBased insta page. Worth a follow for future release hints from patents being filed. Right up my Strasse.
I noted that it uses a new cassette and a flat top chain thats a new unreleased version with weight saving cut outs in in the links.
A couple of years ago I read an interview with one of the big wigs from sram and they implied that flat top chains would be coming to eagle someday further down the line. Looks like that day will be here soon.
It makes sense and it might open up more mix and match options between the road and mountain bike groupsets.

The Sram UDH turned out to a be a great big dirty trojan horse!

I'll give you £50 for all your old AXS stuff

You should be old enough to remember this

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Ha jokes on you, the seatpost is shagged and the derailleurs are all missing a bolt that sram included in a running change... £50 friends and family to my pp account please

Would you accept Sram gift vouchers?

Haha! Its hard to understand why that never caught on eh?
I actually worked in a bike shop when it was released, about 2005 I think, seen with my own eyes!

Sram gift vouchers

this is how I receive my wages every month

tbh I like that Sram are now attempting to shaft Shimano with this.
But if flat top chains do come to eagle, it might make my hybrid Shimano cassette/axs mechs set up harder to achieve.

Do AXS road mechs only allow use of the flat top chain then, as I thought it just affected cassette and chainrings?

Yeah axs road mechs have a flat top specific upper pulley that the mtb mechs dont have

I changed the pulleys on my trail bikes mech, didn't bother on the enduro bike - but I imagine that any new mech could have the same done to account for chain type.

Yeah I never bothered to change the pulleys on my axs/xt set up either.

Indeed the pulleys can be swapped out on a road axs mech.

fwiw I installed a Rival axs rear mech(swapped out the pulleys from another mech) on my dh bike with a 7 speed xg795 cassette just for fun and it worked perfectly fine when I rode it up and down the street for 5 minutes before taking it off again.
I was a bit bored that day.
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