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@@ReachTheBottom thanks bro! Glad that you enjoyed it. Curious to see how it might work for you

@@Geisterpfeifenfisch bro, it's not Germany, people are way more chill 😉🤌🏼☕

@@StefanDreissen danke! 🫶🏽

@@mattiacecchettimtb thanks man! Happy to hear that especially from the other main protagonist of this one 😅✌🏽

@@WingsofHealingThyroid 🫶🏽🚴🏽‍♂️🚀

@@WingsofHealingThyroid 🙏🏽🙏🏽🫶🏽

Thanks man! Appreciate the Kudos. Thanks also for sharing the "FOX- experience". While I was wrestling with the Lyrik 3 23 I was wondering whether the FOX 36 wouldn't have been the better choice. And as it seems it was not 😅. Which fork are you running on that Dreadnought? ZEB 2.1?

@@Mike_Rides_Bike It seems I am not really a Fox guy. I had big issues with the 2023 Fox X2 Elite shock on the dreadnought and on my giant Ebike. Both were fried after 150-300km of riding with that seal issue the X2 had in that generation. Switched to a RockShox Coil on the Dreadnought which was extremely supple but left the backend dead and muted. Now on a 2023 SuperDeluxe air with some custom tuning which works pretty good (there is some strange issue with some highpivot bikes with a really high idler and pivot point, that seems to lose the compression energy on the rebound. Basically you need a really fast rebound to balance that out, which was only made possible with some rebound shimstack custom magic 🤣 ). I initially had a ZEB 2.1 on the dread which was really ok but made the choice to try a 3.0 charger fork. I think that was a bad decision. While the 2.1 was already pretty stiff, the 3.0 added some weird compression behaviour. Initial suppleness was okayish, but after the first 10% around sag it was feeling harsh. The dials hardly changed anything. The available room of adjustability is really small. I do think the 3.1 on the Lyrik has a wider area to work with though. I do have the direct comparsion almost. On the ebike I use a Domain upgraded with a 2.1 damper unit, which is so much better in almost every aspect (while only being heavier in the end). What actually did work for me in the end on the 3.0 ZEB was an adjustable air damper upgrade by Chickadee called the AWK. Just another air chamber that you switch out the normal topcap with tokens for. You can adjust the air in that chamber and have a more linear air curve. That actually took some harshness out and worked pretty well on finale ligure trails. I chose to throw some money at an intend fork lately though. Initially for the druid but as you can simply change the travel without disassembling the fork, I will do some back to back testing with the 3.0 zeb with air chamber versus the intend edge this june in finale again.

@RoughRidersMTB wow. Thanks for the details. This is helpful and pretty much in line with my part of that experience. I really wish for my 2.1 zeb back from that Jekyll I previously had. Let me know how that new setup works. I've been thinking about Öhlins 36, but then the cherry red ZEB came out and now I'm saving up for that 😅 The fuck you want in Finale. Komm lieber runter hier in die Toskana, hier gibts noch wildes zu entdecken ohne Stau auf dem Trail. Kannst die Gegend in meinen anderen Videos schon etwas erahnen. Sag bescheid ich kann dir GPX geben oder ne Runde mitnehmen. ✌🏽 Kannst auf Insta nach mir suchen bei Bedarf (mistik.mike)

@@Mike_Rides_Bike Mit 3 Kindern muss man schauen, was übrig bleibt an Zeit und wohin die Kollegen wollen. 😅 Wir sind eine 7er Gruppe in Finale wieder wie die letzten 2 Jahre. Toskana wollten auch ein paar schon mal angehen, sieht wirklich wahnsinnig gut aus, was ich so aus ein paar der Videos erahnen konnte. Bei ner Gabel steht bei mir auch noch ne Manitou Mezzer Pro auf der "würde ich gern mal testen"-Liste. Die sollen insbeosndere mit einem Tuning von DZ-suspension (Highlander tuning) extrem gut sein. Fährt auch nicht jeder :D

@RoughRidersMTB ok! Wow, das sind natürlich "Rahmenbedingungen". Viel Erfolg in Finale! Und ja, die Manitou ist echt interessant vom Design

@@axelbrizard4494 thanks Axel! 😘

@@michaellubomirski9059 danke Chef! Es war wirklich ein Abenteuer! 🚀🥳

@@JXR138 thx! 🥳

⁠@@Mike_Rides_Bikenp. suggestion: change your name into more simple and that you can be found better but something what is not occupied yet😅

@JXR138 yeah, thinking about it. Too many good ideas so I can't decide for now and I am waiting also to see what type of content performs best on this channel first. There will be various different videos coming out in the next months

@@WingsofHealingThyroid 🥳😘

@@martindusseldorf482 🚀🚀

@@mattiacecchettimtb thanks for the shots!!

Danke! 😘

@@prodbyqibeats thanks Q! 🫶🏽

@@markifi thanks for watching and the insights! Interesting point on the pump. I'll keep an eye out on it!

@jona.knp6311 thanks!! Really glad you liked it. 🙏🏼🥳

@@susannalubomirski4554 спасибо! Да, тут природа 💯

@@susannalubomirski4554 спасибо! Я тоже считаю это видео пока самым удачным. 🙏🏽😘

@@susannalubomirski4554 🙏🏽🙏🏽😘

@@VEJIm hehe, that thing.... it's not ideal, but the best one I have tried so far. Look for "MR-02" and "mudguard" on Google and you should find some reseller. I think it's a German brand or something, at least in Europe there are several online Shops selling it around 40-50€

@@Mike_Rides_Bike I’ll check it out, thanks!

@@eg-xf5ic thanks for watching and also for sharing! I guess everyone has his/her own preference. Great that you've found your favorite setup ✌🏽

@@JXR138 ✌🏽

@@WingsofHealingThyroid 🙏🏽🙏🏽

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@@MikesBikes2020 thanks for watching Mike! I would love to have your trail support always with me. Then I could also drop some tools at home ... Hahaha. Jokes aside, yeah, the hip pack light is a solution, as you see on Mattia in the riding sequences in the video. But I still just so much enjoy to not have to carry anything, if possible. 🫶🏽 to Athens

@@WingsofHealingThyroid you should check out the full video 😉

@@pippinrush1520 thanks mate! 🙏🏼🙏🏼

Haha, no, don't want to clean it for like an hour just for that puddle 🤣🤣 and yeah, Castiglione della pescaia is a tough one for me. The euphoria is caused by all that uphill pain, I guess 😅

@@mattiacecchettimtb amazing camera bro 🧙🏽‍♂️🙏🏽

@@WingsofHealingThyroid thanks a lot for watching 🙏🏽

@@grantwilliams2912 thanks for watching Grant! Glad to hear that you could take away something from it. I really didn't like the side mount. I was touching the pump in turns.

At the moment I can't think of a better one in our area

@@WingsofHealingThyroid yeah! Poggio Pelato for the win!

@@Kev2Bee thanks a ton for watching and for the positive feedback! Cheers man

@@mattiacecchettimtb pure flow

@@Derluzernerterry thanks bro! This trail....full video on this area coming 🔜

We had some fun 😅😊

@@DontWorryImAPilot sure, thanks for the question and for watching! The Lyrik 3 was just a pogo stick. It was good on jump lines and big hits. It was terrible on chatter (despite buttercups bla bla) and felt not plush at all. Yes, it gave lots of mid stroke support, but with my weight (67kg) I couldn't use the travel. I went more than 10 psi down in steps and only then could I increase the compression from fully open to -1 or neutral. Otherwise it made it even worse. But with this low on psi it was too unstable in the middle now and not giving the support obviously. So I upgraded to 3.1 and a suspension center made some hokus pokus with seals and oil. Now it's better. But still too harsh for my liking. The zeb 2.1 was a blast in comparison. I hope this helps. Happy to share/answer more, if you need/want. Cheers

@@Mike_Rides_Bike That's great info! One of my bikes has a Pike Ultimate on it at 140mm of travel. I had to go a little higher in pressure than I was expecting to hit my sag. Of course, my pump might be out of calibration so that detail might be wrong! The Pike feels great so far but I've hardly even given it a proper test besides a few staircases and small drops. I just got the bike on a year-end sale and it's -10ºC here right now so it's muddy/snowy/icy meaning the trails are closed and the ground is slippery. Maybe I'll take this opportunity to try a different suspension manufacturer for my other bike's fork. From what I've heard, Öhlins is exactly the opposite of pogo stick and is pretty damped. Maybe that would work well for you? I might go that way for my new fork! Thanks again for the info. I look forward to the next chance I get to watch your videos!

@@DontWorryImAPilot yeah, Öhlins is for sure on the wish list somewhere. But tbh, as I have 160 Lyrik now, I am intrigued by the cherry red ZEB. I was a RS fan all my life basically so far and I did have several Fox equipped bikes along the way. The Superdeluxe is also doing an amazing job in the Druid frame, but the Lyrik 3 was not a good product at all imho. So yeah, probably Öhlins, or something else....we will see. Let me know what you went for and how it performs? Maybe in your review vid? 😉✌🏽 Anyway, thanks for the Kudos. New video went online yesterday and the next one will be a review again. Coming maybe late next week.

@@Mike_Rides_Bike The bike I just grabbed is a 2024 Yeti SB120 Lunch Ride. I got it from a bike shop that was offering me a discount in addition to the discounts from Yeti's 2024 leftover colors sale. I was trying to pick between the Druid V2, the SB120 Lunch Ride, the Mondraker Raze, and the Raaw Jibb V2. When those discounts stacked up and made my most preferred bike also the cheapest, I went for it! No ride or review video from me any time soon. I'm also 40+ but have WAY less picturesque locations and challenging trails around me than you do! So far, though, the bike's been fun in an urban "free ride" type of riding and I think it's going to rip when I can get it onto the trails!

@DontWorryImAPilot amazing to understand the background! Sounds like fun! So I hope your conditions outside allow you to shred soon. In the meanwhile I'll try to fill in with some sun from Tuscany 😉✌🏽