while that Pinarello Dogma is absolutely awesome please please please do a bike check on that new rockrider which "only" took 2nd place on the main race, behind the 3-4 times more expensive pinarello 😃
This Rockrider is astonishing, i'm waiting it so much it is the best bike for me. 29in, 120mm it should be able to be on top3 on a WC compared to all 100mm bikes
What an awesome weekend of racing...Tom Pidcock, what a beast for taking both races.Even starting the short track in last place and crashing in the Full XC! I love the CONTENT!! Great job Ritch!
@@mtbzen I guess you don’t ride very much if you can’t see the benefits. It’s a pain in the arse when you’re already stood up and then you realise you need your seat out the way and you have to squat to put it down, which changes you weigh distribution and body position etc.
Bmc /Ohlin with the carbon crown 34 fork, and the rear shock facing that way for not bending the shock shaft?Cool. The Jumbo bikes rigid link, they should offer that if they can. Both Excitingly practical, love the stuff that pops up in xc, great vid
This Rockrider is astonishing, i'm waiting it so much it is the best bike for me. 29in, 120mm it should be able to be on top3 on a WC compared to all 100mm bikes
When will one of the big tool brands come out with a bicycle specific electronic drive tool? I would love a Milwaukee M12 driver with selectable torque settings from 3 to 25 Nm with overdrive reverse. I use the m12 screwdriver for my job (industrial electrician) and my tennis elbow is gone and I turn fasteners faster. $250 to $300 for a tool only, reasonably torque accurate drive tool would be a hot buy.
Love xc content. Any chance a feature on how almost all of XC full sus bikes have pretty much the same suspension design? Main pivot near bottom-bracket, flexy seat-stays, small upper linkage and a shock attached to the top-tube (Cannondale, Santa Cruz, Wilier, Specialized, Orbea, Rockrider, Canyon, BH, Cervelo, Caloi, Pinarello etc). Most effective way of making a light, functional full suspension or everyone copying?
Good question. The point in general is that basically every company praises their own system as the most advanced one. Since the beginning of the first FS bikes about 30 years ago. It might have boiled down to the system you mentioned. If you still have your doubts (like me also) …get a hardtail 😉. Great fun ride …and simplicity ALWAYS wins in the long run (not to mention zero maintenance issues). 💪🏼
Helium molecules are tiny, it is extremely hard to contain it. The gas just leaks out every tiniest hole, a few atoms small hole is enough for it to start escaping. Properly sealing the frame for He would add a lot of weight.
Haha I have cottage like 12km from this location :) I ride time to time here as well, but I prefer new red line with jumps rather than XC tracks. However I can say I am probably as fast as competitors....on my ebike :D The uphill sessions are nasty :)
I’m surprised none of those toolboxes had bearing presses in them. Seems like you’d want that a long time before a other things like a rotor truing tool for example.
This is a random comment, but if oyu ever do a video where you answer peoples questions again, I have a question. I am looking to buy new tyres for my bike, and I was wondering if it matters if you put 2.4 width tyres on a wheel/rim that is made for 2.3 tyres
Manufacturers like Schwalbe (but others too) have tire charts where they have recommendations which tires fit on which rim (the inner rim width is important). You find them if you search for "Schwalbe tire chart"
Where is SRAM with flight control for SID?!?! SR - new joiner to the electronically controlled suspension is leading the group? I hope at least one anthem with fox was there.
The switch to electronically controlled suspension is helping clean things up, but for now while lockouts are used so much in XC racing all those cables are here to stay.
I work in the micro electronic sector. We push to add electronic devices everywhere as it makes money. I realize the environmental cost and damage of such policy and become more and more annoy with it. And today I see that we are now adding electronic suspension on MTB... quite sad. Wherever you add electronic, it increases drastically the maintenance cost (because you cant do that much yourself), the environmental footprint of the product (because there is always a battery that will be dumped every X year) and reduces the lifespan of the item. Except for very particular application where electronic is extremely advantageous, she should avoid using it extensively considering its cost. But i dont think the MTB world care that much. Actually, thet are pursuing the path of road cycling and we now have a climate criminal as INEOS as sponsor for top riders.
This high end stuff is expensive. It's ridden by professionals, but the average rider don't use electronic suspension or a electronic shifting, simply because it's that expensive.
Companies make more money on the low end stuff that comes stock on so many bikes in the $500-$2000 range. Kinda like how mcdonalds makes more $ selling mocrowaved cheeseburgers than any other company who actually cooks good burgers.
Contrary to others suntour offers forks like the XCR series ( coilspring and air versions) which includes remote lock out for a price tag a lot of people can afford. Not everyone can afford a bike for 5000 €/$ with a fork more expensive than a decent beginner XC hardtail, where an annual service is more expensive than the XCR itself. Of course for a car driver living in the expensive Rolls Royce bubble a mid sized car which is affordable for the majority is also crappy.
The UCI rules stipulate the same bike must be ridden during the XCC race and the XCO race, although you're allowed to replace or change components on the bike itself. Some riders see a hardtail as a better option for XCC, while a full suspension bike is preferred for XCO. By doing this, they've changed the bike into a hardtail for the XCC race, and can then install a shock for the XCO race and have it as a full suspension bike again. It's making use of a loophole his team found in the UCI rulebook!
its not air suspension. You actually let saom of the air out each time it takes the seatpost down. You can us it without air as a normal (weight of the driver down / spring up) dropper seatpost.
