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The Pinkbike Podcast

Episode 84 - Explaining RockShox's Computer Controlled Suspension

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8718 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Rather than you reaching down to flip the pedal-assist switch, Flight Attendant manages the fork and shock's compression in real-time, constantly adding or subtracting damping as required and, importantly, to varying degrees depending on how you want your bike to behave and the terrain you're on. If all that sounds complicated, that's because it is. There's a lot to unpack, which is what today's episode is all about; Mike Kazimer, Sarah Moore, Henry Quinney, and I talk about what Flight Attendant is like on the trail, what the heck Bias Adjust does, how the fork now adjusts the shock's low-speed compression (seriously), and whether ten batteries is enough or if Kazimer should use two GoPros.

Transcript

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0:00.0

I've long been a proponent of using a sausage dog or some kind of some kind of pack mule.

0:04.9

Imagine that.

0:05.4

A what now?

0:06.4

Like a sausage dog.

0:07.9

A little waistcoat with access batteries and energy gels chasing down the trail.

0:19.3

Hey, Pinkers, and welcome back to another episode of the PB podcast where we chat and sometimes argue,

0:25.6

which I think might happen today, about the latest happenings, controversies, and especially

0:31.1

new gear every week. And I don't know if you guys saw the homepage on Tuesday, but there was a new product release

0:38.2

that checked off all three of those boxes. Rockshocks's flight attendant automatically

0:44.5

adjusting electronic wireless suspension system. So today on episode 84, we're talking all

0:52.4

things flight attended.

0:59.4

Now, Mike Kazimer has spent the last month using this stuff on 170-millimeter travel in Duro.

1:00.4

So if you haven't seen it, his review of this stuff is up on the website right now.

1:06.0

I have him here today.

1:07.1

We're going to be asking him a ton of questions about how it all works, what he thinks of it,

1:11.8

and if he's okay with having five batteries on his bike. But first, Casimir, I think there's this

1:19.3

tension between sort of mountain biking and the technology that we sometimes use to get the most

1:26.1

out of it. We've have, or we've had our human-powered sport

1:31.1

that's sort of, Kaz, it's all about like fitness and health and pushing your limits and trees

1:36.6

and nature and all that kind of shit that we love. But there's also this technology that we use

1:43.4

or that we can use that lets us ride faster and farther and just generally be better than we actually are.

1:51.3

It seems like most of us are okay with using or at least wanting to use some of this technology and this gear.

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