Recent content by zaykay

Original Tour mode was useless. Tour+ is now my preferred mode, very similar than EMTB, just less assistance.

I don't think that kind of test compresses the bottom out bumber fully. Have you bottomed out the shock yet in riding situation? So that you feel the metal clunk hard stop?

If that picture is taken with bottom out bumber still in place I'm afraid you don't have enough clearance for bottoming. I've had the understanding that in Large frame 62,5mm (for 2021 style reservoir, 60mm for older type dhx2) is the longest stroke which clears the frame. Is this XL frame?

I think it's the Bosch motor freewheel which gives that sound.

I’ve been many times using two different shuttle companies and guides with normal bike and also explored the area with emtb. Imo if you are not familiar with the area hire a guide. I would also use shuttle to get you up to base nato even when using emtb. Otherwise you just waste time and most of...

He lists the things where the weight differences are coming from being specific about tires . I don’t really see the bias which you are refering to. IMO well made comparison and as a conclusion it’s very hard for me to see why one would buy still a Levo SL. It’s few years older more expensive...

Thru shaft relies only to active piston shim stack on damping. It feels livelier but in reality it’s harder to control damping with only active piston since it basically sees about three times more oil flow than typical passive piston on typical shock. Normally both active&passive are used...

This. A lot longer lead times cause cash flow issues. Smaller manufacturers might even go bankrupt in the middle of the ”boom” because of this.

She mentioned running 170mm on recent Sam’s bikes interview. I have been testing both stock 160mm and 170 mm air springs and IMO 160mm is better for generic trail riding. 170mm works if downhill is your main thing. Even on downhill 160mm works better in tight corners.

I think Rockshox lists different part numbers for different lower eyelets/bodies based on stroke. There are no travel spacers on parts diagrams visible so I don’t think they use them on air shocks. Coil and Fox are different.

Just to give another perspective, new Commencal Meta AM has 11% progression on linkage. That is in the more linear end of these. YT’s are usually very progressive and typically around 33%

That Spaniard had it 2.9 - 2.375 which is 18%. I would categorise it lower end of middle ground when comparing to another linkages. For sure not the best linkage ratio for coil but can be made work really well especially if you keep adjusting the clickers and shock tune is not too light. Running...

Fox shocks are all the same 230x57,5-65, their stroke is limited by internal spacers which you can buy from Fox. Rail linkage works perfect also with 230x60 shock without any modifications. RS uses different piston rod/lower eyelet for different stroke lengths. They can be also swapped. Both...

And to make myself clear. Adding compression damping for sure does not make suspension plusher on every case. Sometimes it does, many times not.

About spring preload. As little as possible without spring rattle. What comes to the adding compression damping making the suspension feel plusher in certain circumstances is common knowledge among suspension tuners. Damping impacts to dynamic ride height. Think about adding damping make fork...