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I'd be curious to try it in maybe a rough, sweeping turn, or a high speed rock garden....but this is a mechanical system, is it going to stop me from snapping the bar quickly when I want to?
 
The general idea seems to be to increase stability during slow speed techy climbs when a really slack bike could be prone to front wheel flop/drifting. It doesn't really do much for you the rest of the time. Maybe, maybe it could be a benefit to EWS-E racers during the Power (climb) stages as I get the impression those stages are much more difficult in real life than they tend to appear in videos.

However, the drawbacks to a racer could be severe. The system apparently doesn't have a built-in steering stop, so if you crash at speed and over-rotate the front end the fork steerer can twist within the mechanism. Then you may be fighting against the system in order to make the front wheel point straight until you can get out a tool and reset the mechanism. I can see pretty much every racer saying, "Oh hell no!" to that.
 
Ian F said:
The general idea seems to be to increase stability during slow speed techy climbs when a really slack bike could be prone to front wheel flop/drifting. It doesn't really do much for you the rest of the time. Maybe, maybe it could be a benefit to EWS-E racers during the Power (climb) stages as I get the impression those stages are much more difficult in real life than they tend to appear in videos.

However, the drawbacks to a racer could be severe. The system apparently doesn't have a built-in steering stop, so if you crash at speed and over-rotate the front end the fork steerer can twist within the mechanism. Then you may be fighting against the system in order to make the front wheel point straight until you can get out a tool and reset the mechanism. I can see pretty much every racer saying, "Oh hell no!" to that.
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according to the article there IS a built in steering stop

And as an added bonus, a built-in rotation stop keeps the system from over-extending, as it doesn't allow the front wheel to turn too far to either side.
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shrpshtr325 said:
according to the article there IS a built in steering stop
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Hmm... this article a little shorter than the Pinkbike article, which mentions that in the event of a crash, the steerer can rotate inside the stop and has to be loosened to reset it to center.
 
Yeah this idea is bad. If the whole point is to stabilize the front wheel on rocky terrain just use a damper and keep the physics cancelling springs out of it.

Have a damper built into the headset adjusted by a knob on the stem.
 
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Waiting for it to come full circle, I can’t stand the constant “non-nessacary” cycling technology. #partypooper
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I don't know if I'd say the dropper is a fad. The basic idea of lowering the seat to make descending easier/more fun has been around since the Ride-Hite back in the early 90's. It just took a while for technology to catch up with the idea. I can't see ever going back to fixed seat posts on my mtn bikes. Hell... I want dropper posts on my road bikes.
 
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