Hey folks. Did a "routine" maintenance upgrade earlier today, which turned out to be anything but routine. I *might* have most everything back up and running now, but I'll be totally unsurprised if there are more gotchas lurking in the shadows.

LMK if you find anything not

I'm working on a full rebuild of my wife's 856/beast. It's going well, apart from the fact that I can't figure put to pull apart the rear suspension.

I took out the 150 torque bolt but the rear suspension won't pull apart from the rear triangle.

The bi

Hi everyone.  I am just getting back into bicycling. I rode basic non suspension mountain bikes way back in the day.  I recently found a VGC 1999 K2 OZM with the cross link fork with the smart shock. Everything appears original.

Unfortunately I weigh in at around 260lbs and fig

Has anyone weighed their frame and or frame parts/forks/shocks?  I have a '97 Animal with NR4 a carbon swing arm. I would just strip it down and weigh it but really starting to look like a lot of work...

I have heard there were prototype bikes with this configuration.

Has anyone tried it?

Pros and cons?