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I bet Dungey likes the feel of coil springs a little better now though.
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I've put thousands of miles on MTB's with air shocks, and haven't run into any issues. To each his own.
Come to think of it, coil shocks ARE superior to air shocks on mountain bikes. I am throwing away my Santa Cruz Tallboy carbon and it's fucking useless Fox air shock and hitting up Wal-Mart for something more dependable and trail worthy
BTW......RD's bike looked a lot better once they went back to the older shock. Just leave it alone until the air shock gets the kinks worked out of i!
Just so you guys know......the air shock is NOT the only thing on RD's bike that they have had issues with. The forks , the motors ( he's tried like 3 -4 ) , the geometry of the frame and other things.
The conventional rear shock was proven to work really well.......which is why I said I think they should test the air shock some where else....besides the actual race. Shit like what we saw in his heat race when it completely failed.....could be not only a way to ruin a championship run.......But put RD in the friggin' HOSPITAL if it fails during a race!
See what I'm saying?
what happened to RD5 can happen to any of them....... and don't kid yourselves, all of them are smack ass in the middle of R&D on the pneumatic forks...... none of them are as dialed as their forks were on last year's bikes..... none and their current points standings and their lack of consistency reflect it. the guy that currently has the pneumatic suspension on the back of the bike is ahead of ALL of the guys with the pnuematic suspension on the fronts of their bikes.
on top of that, KTM gives their factory teams the options to run what THEY WANT....... not what the FACTORY wants. RV and CR have been bitching the entire season about the forks..... but their teams FORCE them to continue R&D during the season. look at Yamaha....... one of the biggest overhyped failures in SX and their backward thinking is forcing teams to still run that backward engine....... the air shock failed for KTM, and the old shock is back on the bike in minutes. i really wonder how honda will respond if one of their forks dumps air..... you think they will allow the team go back to the conventional forks f/or the rest of the race night?...... if so, i have some swampland for sale.
while i wouldn't trust ANY of the pneumatic suspension just yet, KTM seems to be the one advancing their machines by far and away the most from year to year..... just look at how far they have come in the last decade, last 5 years, last 2 years ect. the US is the only place they don't dominate..... yet......... but anyone that thinks they wont here in the future........ well.......... look what the future in the US was on last night. this pic is a sad statement for the jap companies .
Win some, lose some.
Look at any serious DH guy.... what is he running? Air or Coil?
I say again....they are harsh, "spring rate" constantly changes... they suck!
A cross country bike is about as far away from a motocross bike as one could get.
Meanwhile a true DH (downhill) rig is about as close to a motocross bike as you could get. (chassis wise)
Air shocks are for "gram weenies" and are notoriously "untunable" in anything beyond a casual cross country roll.
If they fail on a flatland cross country bike? Whoopie. The rear end will drop a whole 2-3". No danger there.
If you want to compare then post pics of bikes that make sense to compare.
Like this Tomac rig...yep, same Tomac family.
Or this DH rig.....Titanium coil sprung. No 'air shocks'.
Yep, this is a BICYCLE making that drop.....you can keep your air shock thank you.
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Did he ever land it?
sorry im just too retarded to figure out how to post a pic yet!
oh shit after 50 tries it worked!
There are a handful of guys in the pits who, if you ask the question, they'll generally give you a pretty straight answer. Roger's in that group.
Inside Ryan Dungey's Air Shock 2013 Supercross Bike-MXA
https://youtu.be/RGh2sxLd2h8?rel=0
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