I would love to try a front brake cover on my Ohlins fork and I am looking at the available mass dampers and if F1 banned them that means they work well. I have been running sprung mass dampers on my 1/27 scale RC race cars for about a year with excellent results. P.S. I never change damping settings for climbs...
I'm torn about all the tech in DH. On one hand this gives valuable testing for development but on the other hand I would like to see them use a stock bike that anyone could buy. Be the best rider not just have an advantage. The comparison is made often between DH and F1, if the big teams have all the budget for the tech what happens to the samller ones? Although it may not matter since it looks like the UCI wants to push them out anyway.
@@ChampyOnPC not the same thing. On devices like ochain or sidekick, you always have a set angle of free movement. On the other hand low engagement is dependent on the angle. When your wheel is just after a „click” you will have the „full” low engagement free movement, but when you’re just before a „click” then you literally have instant engagement and no free movement - hence sometimes it works and sometime it doesn’t. In race you need consistency, and you want maximum advantage, not lottery on when will it engage with kickback and when it’ll give you flawless suspension. Then it’s the matter of angle - i don’t think any low engagement hub can give you such big of a free angle like the e13 sidekick anywhere (IIRC 19 degrees)
saw a quick review on tuned mass dampers and it seems they soften the handlebar shocks which is great news if you experience shoulder hand arm pain on rough terrain I can totally see an electronic adaptative suspension being great in racing while it has little point for recreational just slow down and turn your knobs or stop and change your rebound settings if you want to (you can do that while riding on fox floatx or the dps-likes only the fork rebound is inaccessible while sitting at fox, I did that all the time last time I rented an emtb with random rock shox as long as there are clicks it's easy to do you can count them and don't need to look at them
Wow - This vid has almost all of the bike tech I care the least about packed in together!😅 Well- presented, of course. But for me, all these bits of tech work to take the human factor out of the biking experience. Maybe they could invent a 'human damper' next?
MTB tech i want to hear more about is tires and their composition. Comparisons against Maxxis, BFG, and Continental ( please use the most similar tires to each other, like Kryptotal compared to Minion as a example ). id like to know which is the best all rounder that works good in a mix of terrain from wet and slick to hard compact. Tires are costly and id like not to spend 300- 400 on tires just experimenting Lol.
I can see why you might say that - but hear me out - you can't buy a current F1 car - maybe you can get close to Rally car off the shelf - but if DH is the F1 of off-road bikes - and I believe it is - then being able to buy an actual raced this year DH race bike is pretty close to being able to buying the equivalent to an F1 car. Cheers Owen
