Hot topic for sure. Trek and Devinci use single pivot designs to great effect. But echoing what other people have said, there is no “one true suspension”. Advances in rear shock technology, tires, and geometry have made it easier than ever to make whatever suspension you pick work well.
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It’s Rat King. He’s located down near Goodwill on Dearborn off Rainier. Or at least within a short walk of that general area (i have forgotten exactly). I got some old D-A parts from someone in the shop next door. I hadn’t heard of him before either.
Came across this trailer featuring the worlds tallest unicycle. And it’s fillet brazed!
Especially funny for me as I used to be a unicyclist for 10+ years!
Also check Flansberrium for the coolest custom built unicycles! 
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Looking good @manzanitacycles!
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Thanks for the shoutout!
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Ideal if you mount your cranks backwards!
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that was my thought as well
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Jean-Pierre Le Vacon was in a L’Union a few weeks ago. Article is in French.
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I love that name! Whippet!!
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https://www.pinkbike.com/news/orbea-launches-new-alma-xc-hardail-2025.html
Some novel hardtail designs coming from Orbea. Interesting concept that would be fairly simple to execute with additive manufacturing, and they don’t appear to own any intellectual property on the design.
Also cool to see more innovation for blind bottle bosses on seattubes!
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I’m afraid you’ve mispronounced Rafaelcycles
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Neuhaus in the Haus
Nice looking bike for sure.
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There are lower MOQ options in other places. In Europe, a few…
There are lower MOQ options in other places. In Europe, a few…
[quote=“BS_Industries, post:353, topic:1198”]and they don’t appear to own any intellectual property on the design.
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I don’t think they are going to care if any of us steal their design - even if we have reasonable success with it. I’d wager the profits from a custom stem that Orbea will abandon the design within 3 years anyway. They will find a new design that is 12% stiffer laterally while being 8% more compliant vertically and is still 13% lighter.
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Now that I have read the linked article…
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The bottom of the seattube now connects to the top of the downtube, a shape that’s said to add compliance, creating a more comfortable ride, especially for riders that are sitting down and hammering over chunkier terrain. Orbea refer to it as a “micro damper,” but even that may be a bit of a stretch – the amount of flex from the frame is still going to be quite small.
The chainstay and seatstays have a flattened shapes in an effort to ensure that the “laterally stiff, vertically compliant” box is fully ticked.
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Yeah, that…I think the industry has been repeating this paragraph since around 1983, or maybe '73.
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Very entertaining!
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I completely agree. The only reason I bring it up is the patent Specialized received for a frame design with the seat stays decoupled from the seat tube recently.
That said, I wouldn’t be surprised to see this design on an Orbea gravel frame in the future.
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I am obsessed with CVT designs!
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