Live shot of Dylan Johnson right now….
Would love to see them reaching out to Travis Brown who did this back in 09 on it. Tomac vibes.
Also curious about this, though I’ve gotta think that black line is just permanent marker. It seems possible that he could exceed the frame’s max chainring limitation, but very unlikely that he would ride an already-damaged frame.
Another pro-only move: no headset top bearing cover. The forecast must be looking dry.
Can you read the Garmin at that angle? Looks like the band holding it on would rub as well?
Haha. He’s rocking an Aliexpress stem to get the correct angle…
He sharpie’d out the white logos.
And did he put it upside down?
That looks like chainring rub on the chain-stay to me. He’s running a 42 ring. He’s likely running a 55+mm chainline to get it out a bit, but I think that frame officially maxes out at a 38. Doesn’t look that deep, I doubt it would cause any structural concerns.
The lack of protection on the headset bearings is a little impractical for normal riding, but I assume Keegan can swap in new bearings as often as needed.
Ben Delany’s video on this is pretty cool.
This setup seems promising.
I kind of love that we’re back to the Frankenbike scenario. It used to be so much fun to go for a big group ride and see all the things people had mixed together.
Im most interested about the flight attendant fork. I really want to put one my epic wc but when I contacted rockshox about compatibility they said the system only works automatically when you have both the fork and rear shock, which is not an option for the epic wc. Rockshox said that if you were to run a flight attendant fork without the shock it would only have manuel lockout, albeit wirelessly. Pinkbike says that Keegan’s fork has been enabled to have the automated lockout system work. Does anybody have info about this?
Notice how his head unit is angled downward. It has built in LiDAR to analyze the terrain. Tells the shock what mode it should be in.
Maybe?
Pros get to try stuff before the general public. Probably a prototype.
Yeah, no.
- SRAM owns Hammerhead and that would be the unit that would have a silly thing like that.
- That wouldn’t work for a number of reasons.
- He doesn’t need any modes for the fork other than open and maybe locked at Leadville.
He just has the lightest mount possible for it. He’s only going to be looking at it going uphill, so he’ll be over the stem anyway.
Checking in with annother extreme user.
It’s a 3 way damper. And in the Delany video, Keegan says he’ll spend most of his time in the pedal (middle) setting. Sounds like he might just be running flight attendant to eliminate the cables, but maybe the automated switching can work with just a fork and power meter. Either way, he can control it manually with buttons. On a course like Leadville, it’s pretty easy to manually select because the terrain doesn’t change frequently.
It might just be that SRAM/Rockshox wants it front and center on the winning Leadville bike. I’ve been in leadville for the last couple weeks and have seen at least 20 bikes running flight attendant (and only a couple of those were pros). Mostly on new epics, but a few other makes as well.
Lidar? Where did you get that idea?
Watching the track cyclist always lookin behind them. A camera would save the stress and they could look forward all the time. Then I saw Keegan’s angled mount…….,hum maybe….
Another beer please.
Company called Cerevellum did it about 12 years ago….unfortunately, it never really got into mass production.
