Good article that I think can provide some critical thought for all of us. We don't have this crown land here, but legal or otherwise, we all run into manufactured trail features and various attitudes on who should have access. There are the government and private land owners dealing with liability, environmentalists or alternate users of trails with different agendas than mountainbikers, and the diggers that may hold a sense of ownership of their work. I'm like dglobulator, with little time to even get to a trail I usually spend it riding. As far as one photographer sniping another guys stunt, that's a douchebag move that may not be illegal, but the industry ought to find or follow some sort of etiquette. I mean that's kind of like stealing intellectual property, even if the builder left it out in the open. Is there no honor among shooters?

what is the length of the shock, typically given in the measurement from the center of one eye ot the other. The other relevent piece of information would be the length of the stroke. Without this information, noone would know if the shock could fit on their particular bike.

So I see the change in the small and medium using a shorter stroke shock for better choice forthe feather-weight roadie crosover riders, women & children. I'm a short clydesdal who would also need a small frame, so does that leave this price-point bike out of the list of choices for me? (I'm as cheap as I am fat)