"but %99 of the time it's unnecessery weight that also happens to eat some of the power that'd normally go to the wheel." If by 99 percent of the time you refe

"but %99 of the time it's unnecessery weight that also happens to eat some of the power that'd normally go to the wheel." If by 99 percent of the time you refer to climbing(because going up is so slow and takes more time compared with going down), lots of rear suspension's rigidity systems can be adjusted with your finger in a five seconds operation. My bike has this mechanism, I just select the "rigid mode" for climbing and change it for going downhill. Eating the power that will go to the wheel is exactly what I want when I go downhill the Swiss Alps, or Teide or Sierra Nevada. Sometimes I would love to have "regenerative braking". I have a limit in the velocity I can handle. Over this everything goes so fast. Also, having family you start re thinking the risk you take. I am good, but not that good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr5FGOKY3RM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr5FGOKY3RM