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Didn't someone win a world DH championship on that 'Dale?
david vasquez
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Just because it's a mountain bike and colorful doesn't mean it deserves public recognition. To be clear, I understand the point here is the aesthetic, but for the love of god please stop posting bikes that are functionally gimp.
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About time we had a thread for this. Loud, flashy, slightly offensive and obnoxious looking mountainbikes. The kind of bikes that make 7 year old boys drop their jaws in awe, and we all know they are the kings of cool. The more suspension, the better. If it makes sense, it doesn't belong here.
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The Trimble? Rasta zebra paint and matching ano parts on a crazy looking frame, pretty HHSMTB if you ask me.
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that must be some big jump to get those bikes compressed down like that ... oh and slack chain charlie
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Y this thread haz no Votec yet??
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Porn is a step down from this thread.
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this is pretty sweet:
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definitely a yeti. stem or not.
brightidea
TooTallTim
sansovino
Kidneys
dicki
TM
ArbenZ
Howard
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It's pretty ridiculous actually.
Suspension in general is affected by pedaling and the magnitude of that effect is partly dictated by the line drawn by the chain. To make a simple example, if the main pivot of a single pivot suspension bike is below the chainline then pedaling will tend to compress the system. If the pivot is above the chainline it will extend the system. BOTH are bad and rob you of energy. You can imagine that a bigger or smaller chainring will move the chain and change this.
This bike is a virtual pivot system meaning the the entire rear is floating (see above - the famed DW link i posted) and it was optomized for having a chainring of that exact size to minimize any effect pedaling might have on the suspension. Racers wated to have different gear ratios for different courses however, and so they added this system. In order to change the gear ratios the non drive side gears were altered and the driving chain/chainring/cogs were left unmolested meaning the suspension always worked as designed while pedaling.
The main chainring you see there is disconected from the BB. All the drive force is transmitted by the nondrive grears through to the main ring.