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PIT BITS - Sedona Mountain Bike Festival 2020
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10 comments

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aprosise
4 years ago
The lower shock mount does not adjust geo, it adjusts leverage rate. Front hole “business” is a more linear setting, lower leverage ratio. As the shock moves back to “more party” it increases leverage ratio, and results in a more progressive curve. Keeping the spring rate the same, the front hole will pedal higher in the travel, and feel more “efficient.” The rear setting with the higher leverage ratio will allow you to sit into the travel more, increase sag “negative travel” to smooth out rougher trail. It’s literally all just tuning options to try different setups. Production models only have two hole positions, with each one being ideal progressivity for air or coil shock options.

If you are stripping threads on a shock mount, go home. You’re drunk.
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Primoz
4 years ago
If you change leverage ratios for the same shock stroke, you are changing suspension travel at the rear axle. What you're changing here is the rising rate of the leverage ratio, the overall (average) leverage ratio stays mostly the same.

One logic would be to have a more progressive curve be the 'business' to prevent bottom out, but to give supple suspension. To, you know, race. Business. With a more linear curve, you have more support in the middle of the travel and have a more poppy bike. You know, party.

As for stripping threads, that's not the point here. The point is look at how little wallt here is between two holes.
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shreda
4 years ago
Definitely not a fan of these 3 treads for the geo adjustment...
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JHW009
4 years ago
Looks like the lower support is replaceable... as if they are anticpating those geo threads will fail.
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aprosise
4 years ago
It’s a modular mount. Long stroke or short stroke shock options. 130 or 150 travel using a different shock and shock mount. Mounts are machined in house so the custom configurations are endless. Mullet, bb height change, HTA change, higher/lower leverage rate... etc.
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Primoz
4 years ago
I'd say it's a proto and they're giving themselves all the options. And will maybe ship the finished product with only two or maybe one hole but in different variant for the whole mount.
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Primoz
4 years ago
I know, I saw that, I meant it's a proto in the sense that it does not represent the final as in the final product won't have that many holes or won't have them spaced so closely together.

BTW, why would a less progressive suspension be 'business' and a more progressive 'party'? Wouldn't more support in the beginning of the stroke be more party? And a more progressive , comfier, but still supporting in the end be more business?
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sspomer
4 years ago
gotcha (on prototype). i also find "party" vs "business" labels to be tough to decipher.