Emil Johansson is a relative newcomer on the slopestyle scene, but the 18-year-old is already making his mark, with a fourth place finish at Crankworx Whistler last year, a third place finish at Crankworx Rotorua, and a second place finish at Crankworx Les Gets. If that rapid rate of improvement continues, look for a new face to be standing atop the podium once tomorrow’s competition concludes at Crankworx Innsbruck.
Emil is also the newest addition to Trek’s C3 program, where he joins slopestyle heavy hitters Brandon Semenuk and Brett Rheeder. We caught up with Ray Waxham, Emil’s mechanic for this weekend, to learn more about the stylish Swede’s custom Trek Ticket S.
Emil's bag of tricks includes a 360 triple bar spin, so he runs an Avid mechanical disc brake caliper paired with an Odyssey gyro and brake lever in order to avoid worrying about tangled brake housing.
Shock pressure? Very, very, very, firm, as in 350 psi, the maximum pressure for the RockShox Monarch shock. The Ticket has 100mm of travel, but it would take a seriously harsh landing for Emil to go through all of the travel. Tire pressures are between 55-65 psi, and the fork is also set up extremely stiff - this definitely isn't a cushy all-mountain rig.
Semenuk to stomp a 5 cab crankflip and standardize coasters/ fakie tricks plssssss
Good time to plug the Liaison grips, f*ck lock ons these things plus a strip of fabric-y athletic tape on the bars underneath them are unstoppable. Wear down fast but god damn so much real estate for the hands. Run them on my big bike.
Shout outs to the two bigger cogs holding the chain in on the rear. That's nifty.
Does anyone know if Trek is selling this model of the Ticket S frame to consumers? I know they updated it like... last year or the year before and only Semenuk was running it for a while, but I never saw any hit the used marketplace.
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Just checked that Rheeder was running the non-floater frame at Crankworx last week. So who knows?
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The interesting thing with it is that the rest of the linkage looks the same and having the lower shock mount in exactly the same place as the floater mount when it's not compressed isn't a coincidence. They've just fixed the lower shock mount to the frame to reduce the travel, then they've kept the uncompressed location of the lower shock mount the same to keep the geometry identical.
I might even work out how much the fixed lower mount design reduces the travel, if I have some spare time and get bored this week.
If it had a flat leverage curve that'd reduce the travel to 76mm but it's bound to be progressive so it'll 'probably end up with 80mm.
2.35 ikon front and 2.30 dth rear? Or 2.2, 2.15? Or something weird?
What is weird is that Ryan Nyquist is running a smaller front than rear.
But then again doing half bars and landing with your bars backwards is weird enough for me!
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