That bit at the begining about the time lapse and slow motion was pretty darn funny.

NIce write-up, good to see honest reporting of the product impression. But, 2 days of testing, and there wasn't an opportunity to do back-to-back runs with increased air pressure, in order to test out the Mark Jordan's assertions about increasing the air pressure not negatively impacting the sensitivity?

The article suggest this bike is a single pivot, but it's not exatly a single pivot, is it? After all, I do see an additional pivot located near the drop-outs. I would imagine this would help quite a bit to keep the suspension more neutral under braking.

While more competition equates to lower prices, increasing the number of standards can increase prices. This boils down to production costs and the manufacturing process. Eg. It would (conceptually) cost a manufacturer more to produce 500 26" rims and 500 650b rims than it would to simply produce 1000 26" rims. But, does this mean everyone should ride bikes that are all exactly the same, just because it would potentially lower the price? I'm pretty sure the general consensus is "no".

One major problem with the direct mount stem. It's doesn't have removable cap. While I'm sure that must save about 10g or so, it's going to make certain aspects of maintenance, or even bike packing, a pain the butt, as everything mounted to the bar (grips, shifters, brakes etc) will have to be removed from the bar in order to remove the bar from the stem. For some people, this won't be a big deal, but for me personally, I'll stick with a stem that's a bit more user-friendly.

Pimpedaline: Bump shift huh? Never happened to me once, whether riding on a hard tail xc bike, or down the nastiest of trails on my dh bike. Only reason I ever switched off grip shift is to have more flexibility/room to get my brakes in a better position (grip shift interfered with my Strokers, I couldn't get the brakes outboard enough to reach properly). Dave: The article makes reference to two groups of people, those old enough to have used grip shift to know better, and those too young to have ever used. You obviously fall into the latter, and it's a shame that you don't know what you're missing. Even if you did try them and didn't like them, at least you'd know better than to try to associate them with some POS department store bike.

I've been asking myself for a very long time why someone didn't come up with a suspension design that incorporated all these characteristics. It's exactly what I've been looking for. Nicely done. I hope my ride holds out for a few more years until you can get this design to market.