PINKBIKE FIELD TEST
12 Downcountry and Trail Bikes Hucked To Flat
All-out Bottom-out
The final piece of our Field Test series, and what you're all here for, the huck to flat. It's amazing to see how these bikes flex and deform under high load, even if it is from a relatively small ramp.
The beauty of the huck to flat is not showing how bikes perform under extreme, hard to replicate jumps that load up the bike to within an inch of its life, but rather seeing how the bike handles of a reasonably common sized jump even if it is to flat.
The 120mm bikes all held up without any spectacular failures. This is something that would be the minimum you'd hope for, especially for something that can cost thousands upon thousands of dollars but it hasn't traditionally been the case.
This Field Test also has the extra layer of comparing different sized forks. For instance, how do the svelte Fox 34 and RockShox SID compare against more aggressive offerings from Fox, Rockshox, Formula and Ohlins?
Previous Huck to Flat videosField Test: Enduro and eMTBs Get Hucked to Flat in Ultra Slow Motion12 Bikes Hucked to Flat in Gratuitous Slow Motion13 Bikes Hucked to Flat at 1000 FPS8 Value Bikes Hucked to Flat in Super Slow Mo9 XC Bikes & the Grim Donut VS the Huck to Flat10 Trail and Enduro Bikes Hucked To Flat at 1,000 FPS10 Value Bikes Hucked to Flat In Slow Motion at 1,000 FPS
Pinkbike Huck to Flat presented by CushCore
Actually, both are bottoming out, fork and damper fork normally has 10-15mm on th stanchions, which are left when bottoming out, little less with the damper, but they bottomed out.
Seems like we never really fully explored version 1.0 before getting version 2.0?
1) The rear wheel on the Starling must've made contact with the seat tube
2) That live valve fork on the Giant bottomed like there was no damping at all (shock also looked very unsupportive)
Also, in past field test videos, they didn't wear the same outfit and it worked out just fine. This is a field test, they're not going for shreddit of the year here. It's OK if they wear different stuff on different days.
The bike setups are normal. Normal sag.
Some of these bikes don't even have external compression adjustment on the shock and/or the fork, and i'm fairly sure they set up the sag correctly.
Like the others said I think the suspension is acting perfectly fine here. With decent speed you could go pretty damn far off this kicker, and with a proper landing your suspension wouldn't bottom out at all. Jason is going slow and he's like a sack of potatoes in the air. He's landing in pretty much the worst way possible on purpose.
If you set up your suspension so it wouldn't bottom out like this, it would feel brutally harsh on the trails, especially with some of these bikes that only have a 110-120mm of travel.
Bottoming out (not harshly) when you land badly on a stupid jump with a flat landing is not a bad thing. But i'm sure you disagree because you jump 60 feet on motorbikes and that's somehow relevant.
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