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    Fork offset

    I ran my boxxer crowns backwards for a few months last year to try this reduced offset idea. The crowns are offset around 8mm, so reversing them takes the total fork offset from 46mm to 30. I liked what it did to the handling at speed, even with the reduced wheelbase. The only issue was it...
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    The Official Iron Horse Sunday / DW-Link Tech. & Tuning Section

    My large was around 420. That was the main reason I sold it, it always felt cramped coming from my trail bike.
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    Platty is done

    I'll be there
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    Thunder mountain

    This is why I always wait a while at the top of hawleywood, to make sure I'm not dropping in behind somebody wearing a pack.
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    Grumpy old man Axle size question/rant

    Must be a typo, the metric is a standard 20x110mm. And 9mm qr was 100mm, fwiw.
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    The Official Iron Horse Sunday / DW-Link Tech. & Tuning Section

    I rode a large for 2 seasons, and a medium before that. I've moved on to newer bikes, a 2012 demo and a 2015 rune, both large and significantly bigger than my large Sunday was. I have long arms for my height, I've always been more comfortable on longer bikes.
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    The Official Iron Horse Sunday / DW-Link Tech. & Tuning Section

    True. I guess you think this is just the current fashion trend, but if I spend any time sitting on a bike with a low seat and no dropper, I'm more comfortable with the saddle tilted back from level.
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    The Official Iron Horse Sunday / DW-Link Tech. & Tuning Section

    This depends on your saddle. With my ibeam setup (on a large Sunday) I had to slam it forward and tilt it further down than I wanted in order to slam the post height. But I'm only 5'8" and had no trouble riding with the seatpost a few inches up.
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    The Official Iron Horse Sunday / DW-Link Tech. & Tuning Section

    There's almost no point, you'd just save a few grams. You usually can't slam the seat without buzzing the tire, even on the 19".
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    The Official Iron Horse Sunday / DW-Link Tech. & Tuning Section

    Same time. Boost valve = fat shaft, no boost valve = small shaft.
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    The Official Iron Horse Sunday / DW-Link Tech. & Tuning Section

    I believe the wc edition was only the first year or 2 of the rc4, so it would be the fat shaft. Kashima was available on both shaft diameters.
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    The Official Iron Horse Sunday / DW-Link Tech. & Tuning Section

    2013 is the fat shaft, 2015 is the smaller shaft
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    Spitfire, Scout, Troy, etc

    Their site doesn't work on my phone, but here's the geometry chart for my 2015 rune. There's a .4" difference in BB height between the wheel sizes. If they compensated for the bigger wheels by using lower dropouts it would also slacken the angles significantly, which isn't the case.
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    Spitfire, Scout, Troy, etc

    BB height is no different with the 26" or 27.5" dropouts. If you look at their geo charts the BB height is about half an inch higher across the board with 650b wheels/ dropouts. This is why my rune still has 26" wheels.
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    The Official Iron Horse Sunday / DW-Link Tech. & Tuning Section

    Assuming you're talking about the reach measurement, the medium demo is a good deal longer than a large sunday.
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    The Official Iron Horse Sunday / DW-Link Tech. & Tuning Section

    There's a lot of personal preference involved in frame sizing. I'm 5'9" and I rode a large sunday for a long time. I eventually realized I wanted an even longer bike, now I'm on a large demo. I imagine I'd be pretty happy on a large sunday if I were 5'7". Compared to modern bikes, the large...
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    Companies that still make FR bikes

    The word enduro covers a pretty broad spectrum of bikes. The fact that you said trail bike suggests we're talking about opposite ends of that spectrum. Your average modern 160-170mm enduro bike is every bit as capable as what was called a freeride bike 10 years ago.
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    Companies that still make FR bikes

    Just about all of them. They're called enduro bikes now.
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    The Official Iron Horse Sunday / DW-Link Tech. & Tuning Section

    Well that's a big chunk of your difference. Most modern 8" forks are around 22.5" minimum, and that's what the sunday geo charts would've been based on.
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    The Official Iron Horse Sunday / DW-Link Tech. & Tuning Section

    Those numbers suggest that you have a very tall fork.