>>1221902>In the 80s and 90s?Mavic Mektronic, pic related.
>Which were trash. Suspension internals have improved greatly in the last decade or so.Indeed, they are better now.
>Which were trash. These days they pedal much better, especially when paired with well damped shocks although there are some that do well even without.Depends much on the over all design, anti-squat designs where a thing back then as well.
>Well, technically they used it but not really in any innovative ways. They just replaced the main tubes with straight gauge carbon ones and they were prone to coming out of the lugs.They had the spinergy wheels for example, if you ignore the safety issue, they where great.
>Very rare even if you count the 4 spoke wheels and not really any good. It never caught on so they're not used today.They where always a niche product for TT/track.
>We're talking about mountain bikes. Also it's a stretch to call 10mm of undamped elastomer travel "suspension", it was just a comfort thing and by that reasoning tyres could be called suspension.You never specified that, also 10mm travel on 20mm tires is a huge difference in ride quality on bad roads.
>On mountain bikes? I'd love to see that shit on something like a Klein, Tioga disc drive in the rear and a Spinergy up front.Kek, no they came around in the '80s on roadbikes.
Maybe I'll put them on my hardtail for the trollbike-thread.
