bikeworkshop
Senior Retro Guru
Lunch in the pub.I know which one looks better though.
But by late afternoon, it's just a distant memory, whereas that rear derailleur is still shifting away...
Lunch in the pub.I know which one looks better though.
Ha, the damper thing tickled me in a bittersweet kinda way. Blew the cartridge in my Judy XL the other day so they've gone full SR Suntour pogo mode now. Bet that thing's been happy in semi retirement for the best part of 20 years thinking it got away lightlyOh gawd, heaven forbid you stray from the exact topic allowed by the thread title It's all the same stuff; bits of metal arranged in different ways. Old stuff was objectively less capable but had infinitely more character and new stuff is objectively more capable but generally soul-less. And across both you have people who think they own the rights to control the discussion.
Anyway, another bit that got me today was thinking about dampers. Twenty years ago you'd generally blow a shock up at least once a year with a catastrophic failure. Then along came the Fox DHX and RC4 range, and the Cane Creek Double Barrel, and reliability became much better to the point you could generally leave a shock until it started to feel sticky and then get it serviced. These days we're back to shocks blowing randomly, like the Fox X2, after very little riding, and adjusters that are so stiff many riders struggle to tell where the end stops are with the result being they damage them internally. Sometimes there's a sweet spot in tech and maturity/strength that gets passed on by, it's just a shame you don't realise you're living in that sweet spot until it's gone by. The same goes for the Rock Shox Charger damper. I'd hesitate to say the 2.1 iteration was excellent, especially given their propensity for going all Colin Chapman and ejecting their fluid everywhere, but it was a crap load better than the 3.0 they replaced it with (and which itself is being replaced by the 3.1 rather quickly, probably because it's crap).
Or non serviceable components, that's always beautiful. Makes my day that I can't just undo the end of said cartridge in above post & get the number off the seals... oh yes, happy daysProprietary parts, especially when discontinued, wonderful.
A letter to Shimano?So we like the advances and advantages but we all hate disposable shite. Surely this could be sorted?
Along the lines of "Oi #**#, sort it out"?A stern letter to Shimano?