MSM Mechanisms
When people talk about suspension, they think about the fork and the damper. Clicks, air pressure, tokens. But the first thing that touches a rock on track is not the fork. It is the tire. And the tire has a...
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From July 29 to August 2, the circuit near Rivera on the Monte Ceneri pass, in the canton of Ticino, is hosting the UEC Mountain Bike European Championships - the XCO, XCC and XCR disciplines, with more than 350 riders...
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I spend a lot of my weekends in the technical zone at World Cup races, and if you stand there long enough you start to hear the same sentence over and over. A rider rolls in after a session, peels...
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Suspension Service Intervals: Why "50 Hours" Is Only a Starting Assumption Every suspension manufacturer prints a number in the manual. Fifty hours for a lower leg service, one or two hundred for a full damper rebuild. That number is useful,...
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Everything from a weekend trail bike to a World Cup XCO machine passes through my workshop, and the single biggest lesson from all of it is uncomfortable for an industry built on selling upgrades: most riders are solving a problem...
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