well played pinkbike, well played.

lol yeah :D

it's cheaper.

yup, bladder style piggy does away with all the stiction and is possibly more reliable, there's an avalanche shock with bladder. BUT, a chick that knows something about suspension and can come up with an idea like this... i'd sure as hell like to meet her.

oh yeah, you're right.

kinda reminds me of that old nwd where bourdon and schley are driving to ride, throwing beer bottles and shit.

i forgot to add you will need to counter-steer in order to drop the bike into the corner. again, this should be picked up on naturally, there's really no other way to get it done.

this here is vehicle dynamics 1on1. this applies to any ground vehicle, be it a car, motorcycle or a bicycle. EVERYONE should know this. and i meant weighting the outside foot should come naturally since in corners when you lean the bike, you don't want to clip anything with your inside foot therefore you raise it and the outside foot naturally takes all the weight. if you come in too hot on a regular basis, practice drifts, drifting is a great way to shed excess speed. also, not to lean with the bike should be common knowledge. it's so simple to practice - just find a straight open sidewalk with some manhole covers and roll up at some 10mph to say, left side of it, then, without yourself moving curve the bike around the right side (and vice versa). the point is to keep yourself going in the straight line but the bike moves around the manhole underneath you.

shouldn't everybody pick up on this after a year of riding naturally, without conscious effort?

well, good luck with it, i would really like to see it get built, hopefully the manufacturing cost won't be prohibitive. it sure as hell should ride nicely.

i see what you were aiming for. maybe you could omit that linkage in the back by mounting the caliper on the chainstay (wilson) but idk how the chainstay moves exactly. if that's possible (wouldn't cause brake jack like some of the lawwill designs), you could have a single pivot on the seatstay and avoid the fsr/split pivot patent trolling, also it would be much easier to make.