 I was just thinking that the new Pronghorn looks great - then I noticed the saddle they'd chosen to fit, what are they on! That Tomac DB10 would be great for a bit of cross racing 
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 Is that a Brooks saddle? I'm considering getting a Brooks Ti once my current saddle finally dies on me. It'll take ages to get it to mould to the right shape but once there it'll be a saddle for life!
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 A saddle for life as long as you dedicate as much time to looking after your saddle as you would a small child, anway Surely when that Pronghorn suspension compresses the shock is going to lift upwards and reduce clearance over the TT when you need it most? Or am I missing some very clever aspect of the whole assembly that prevents that? That Tomac still looks fantastic. I thought it was just in a limited production run?
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Surely when that Pronghorn suspension compresses the shock is going to lift upwards and reduce clearance over the TT when you need it most? Or am I missing some very clever aspect of the whole assembly that prevents that?
Why are you worried about top tube clearance when the shock is compressed?
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 The Tomac DB10 is a very limited run, that's one of 10  The shock on the Pronghorn will lift up at the back a bit, yes, but when do you ever land on the rearward part of the top tube?
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I'll try to explain it in a way that makes sense (it still may not, bear with me): It might just be my riding style but I use a lot of body language to put the bike where I want it to go. Things like my knees going over / pushing against the top tube in sharp turns (just as an example). As I see it (purely from looking at the pictures of course) when the shock compresses it's going to lift up from the top tube which would reduce the amount of clearance my knees (in the above example) would have. Or have they cleverly found a way to stop the shock from rising upwards?
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I do that too - there's a comment in the earlier Pronghorn review about accidentally flicking the lockout lever with my knee in singletrack, with associated sudden and surprising bumpy ride That particular issue is easily solved by turning the shock round. But again, unless your body language is some particularly strange dialect, your knees aren't going to coincide with the back end of the shock where it's at its highest (which is directly under the nose of the saddle and thus a bit inaccessible), which won't actually be all that much higher than at rest anyway. It'll also start getting lower again after about a third of its stroke
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Thanks Mike
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