The Manitou Travis is IMO an exelent race fork, with a weight of 7pounds-3175gr (Ti sprung) and with a really stiff and durable chassis, if we add a reasonable good price that makes a good race fork for people in a short budget.
I have not found many threads talking about this fork (exluding the manitou bashing ones)
After playing today with the travis CID cart in my hands. I got the following data: From spring backed CID cart
When the shaft moves in at low speed: at the first 1,5 inches you get no compresion (a la zocchi style) then past that point suddenly you get a lot of SlowSpeedComp at the point it feels locked (plattform?), once you get to move more past that position the damping gets progressively softer, because you passed the first spring resistance. An then reaching the end of the shaft travel ir gets firmer again, i guess it is the second (smaller and siffer) spring in paralel coming in to play.
At high shaft speeds, there is a very supple HSC but the shaft moves without restiction to the end of the travel. And you can hear the flow of tiny bubbles as you compress the shaft.
What i'm trying to figure out is how to get a bit more of HSC and over all MORE progresiveness.
First i though about adding some elastometer from an old RST fork in the sping side, then the other idea is to somehow change the evil genius seal for some U-cup seal and raise the semi bath oil to create a pressure chamber like in the open bath forks.
I know there should be some travis users arround this forum.
If you have any theory-tunning tips-recomendations please write down here.
Thanks in advance
Cheers
I have not found many threads talking about this fork (exluding the manitou bashing ones)
After playing today with the travis CID cart in my hands. I got the following data: From spring backed CID cart
When the shaft moves in at low speed: at the first 1,5 inches you get no compresion (a la zocchi style) then past that point suddenly you get a lot of SlowSpeedComp at the point it feels locked (plattform?), once you get to move more past that position the damping gets progressively softer, because you passed the first spring resistance. An then reaching the end of the shaft travel ir gets firmer again, i guess it is the second (smaller and siffer) spring in paralel coming in to play.
At high shaft speeds, there is a very supple HSC but the shaft moves without restiction to the end of the travel. And you can hear the flow of tiny bubbles as you compress the shaft.
What i'm trying to figure out is how to get a bit more of HSC and over all MORE progresiveness.
First i though about adding some elastometer from an old RST fork in the sping side, then the other idea is to somehow change the evil genius seal for some U-cup seal and raise the semi bath oil to create a pressure chamber like in the open bath forks.
I know there should be some travis users arround this forum.
If you have any theory-tunning tips-recomendations please write down here.
Thanks in advance
Cheers