EarlOfEasycore
Active member
I thought it would only be polite to introduce myself before I start dissecting your knowledge. The missus and I currently both ride analogue bikes, but because we have a 7 year old girl who just loves hammering it down Verderers and Launchpad, there's only so much we could do with 180mm travel bikes and coil shocks, so just plumped out for a Trek Rail 5 in the same colour that Rob chose. In fact it was his video and the availability of a large bike on my cycle scheme that convinced me to put a deposit down.
However, I've since learnt that despite having a 230x57.5 eye to eye length and stroke as the remedy, I've discovered that the cane creek DB coil will most definitely (in the words from Jake at Sprung) "get more smashed than teenage chicks with a bottle of Lambrini". The missus is used to the shockingly (forgive the pun) poor reaktiv tune that came with the OE remedy, but I'm lead to believe that the standard deluxe on the Rail 5, combined with the weight will mean that the damping characteristics will be more controlled (i.e. a modicum of controlled rebound will help). That said, we're coil converts. Most of the stuff we tend to ride is -25% over tech, so that illustrates the typical sort of riding we enjoy doing.
The next question I'd want to ask is whether or not a MY2014 Pike 160 29 would be a suitable swap for the stiction bound excuse of a fork that is the 35 Gold? I had the fork on my old Spesh Enduro before it got ported onto the Remedy (with a 6fatty 2.8" setup) and is now doing nothing other than sitting pretty on a Dartmoor primal frame with Halo Vapour wheelsets. I've not had the best of experiences setting up the 35s. One one instance the bushings were causing so much binding on my neighbour's forks and no matter what I did to them, it won't resolve the issue - warranty job. Another neighbour couldn't get their rebound adjuster to make any pronounced difference. Both were on levos, however, so I'm suspecting bad QC on the batches that came out in 2018 - 2019.
But yeah, any Rail 5 threads would be very much welcome!
Safe tings!
However, I've since learnt that despite having a 230x57.5 eye to eye length and stroke as the remedy, I've discovered that the cane creek DB coil will most definitely (in the words from Jake at Sprung) "get more smashed than teenage chicks with a bottle of Lambrini". The missus is used to the shockingly (forgive the pun) poor reaktiv tune that came with the OE remedy, but I'm lead to believe that the standard deluxe on the Rail 5, combined with the weight will mean that the damping characteristics will be more controlled (i.e. a modicum of controlled rebound will help). That said, we're coil converts. Most of the stuff we tend to ride is -25% over tech, so that illustrates the typical sort of riding we enjoy doing.
The next question I'd want to ask is whether or not a MY2014 Pike 160 29 would be a suitable swap for the stiction bound excuse of a fork that is the 35 Gold? I had the fork on my old Spesh Enduro before it got ported onto the Remedy (with a 6fatty 2.8" setup) and is now doing nothing other than sitting pretty on a Dartmoor primal frame with Halo Vapour wheelsets. I've not had the best of experiences setting up the 35s. One one instance the bushings were causing so much binding on my neighbour's forks and no matter what I did to them, it won't resolve the issue - warranty job. Another neighbour couldn't get their rebound adjuster to make any pronounced difference. Both were on levos, however, so I'm suspecting bad QC on the batches that came out in 2018 - 2019.
But yeah, any Rail 5 threads would be very much welcome!
Safe tings!
