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You turn it on when riding on smooth surfaces or going up hill to improve pedal efficiency. It's hard to know if you will need it in advance because without riding the bike you won't know how well the suspension design handles pedal bob (the energy lost by the bike suspension compressing under pedal forces), try and get a test ride.

When you're riding on roads you, generally, have close to no need of suspension, but because you've got it you'll be wasting lots of energy which will be going into the shocks and not into the pedals and cranks. If you don't need the suspension, it's going to be much more efficient to be able to disable it. If you know that you're never (or close to ...

I disagree with all this talk of "wasting a lot of energy". When I am riding with constant pedal force, the suspension compresses very little, if any. The severe loss of efficiency occurs when power peaks to the pedals occur - sprinting or hill climbing. IMO the effect is very roughly up to 30% when sprinting. With climbing it depends on the terrain and your ...

Lockout gives the rider blow-off valve adjustment options (how loose or stiff the compression force is on bike) not only helps pedaling efficiency while climbing/flat trail mode, but also gives the rider options to unlock when riding DH. High end forks have abilities to lock out/adjust blow off, also adjust travel on the fly while riding, like a swiss army ...

I've respaced a steel road frame from 130mm to 120mm for a track hub. It's super easy, although Mr. Brown recommends not doing this for a change as small as 5mm. I'd try a 135mm mountain disk hub with a 700c cross rim, this gives you the most correct breaking surface on both setups. The advantage here is that when you come to put the 130mm road wheel in ...

As suggested by @WTHarper - its a straight forward to spread a steel frame from 130 to 135mm. Heres How..... DO NOT try this on aluminum or Carbon. It is also possible to fit the 135mm wheel into the 130 dropouts, but its a pain so you dn't want to be doing all the time. If you go fro a 130mm hub, A) Can you get 130mm with Disc mounts on the hub?, B) ...

I have a salsa Fargo, with the tubus duo and logo racks. The cargo appears to be a more basic logo, so you should be fine for the rear. The fargo's caliper mounts are inside the rear triangle, and the bike is designed to be a touring bike. With the duo, you will sacrifice using the fork mounted bottle cage mounts. Its most likely the same for the Tara. ...