depends on your shock, how fast you are and what you are riding.
http://www.ridemonkey.com/forums/members/boomslang/Can anyone gave me the e-mail from Jason C ?
Have some questions about the Specialized demo
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What product did you use to strip the paint on that thing? Looks greatManaged to get mine built up over the weekend.
Tyres are Schwalbe Hans Dampf/Maxxis Minion 3C Exo, depending on what I ride and not what's seen in the pic.
Cassette has since been swapped from a 9spd Dura Ace to a 9spd XT.
Headset was swapped out to a Hope Stepdown. With the Cane Creek pictured, the fork knobs just barely hit the downtube.
With the taller than normal A2C of the Vengeance, I had her sitting at 64HA in the picture above.
With the Minions installed, shop weight was 15.61kg, or roughly 34.4lbs.
A Boxxer and a zero stack lower headset cup is in the near future, but for now, I'll ride her as is.
They can change it alright, requires the distributor to have the special part, a shock rebuild, and the associated costs.
Fox can change it. or you can simply do what i did with a stock shock and cut off the knob and slot it for a screwdriver. You'll probably boil the oil in it tho.
Thanks, it was just some generic brand paint stripper I bought off the shelf in my local(I'm from Singapore) DIY store. You might want to do a search online for what others, in your part of the world, have used before. There are loads of posts with suggestions for brands I've never even heard off, or seen in my local stores.
I am broke, plain and simple. Looking at the A2C of the Vengeance(560mm) VS the A2C of a Boxxer(568-571mm(?)), I thought I'd be able to get away with it for the time being. So far, so good. It does feel just a tiny weird, popping off steep lips, but meh, I've gotten used to it and adapted. I will be swapping out to a Boxxer real soon, though.
here with broken shocks on the new Demo? 4 friends of mine are rocking 2012 Demos, 3 of them with CCDB, one of them with an Elka.
a friend of mine broke his and the spring on my shock started rubbing on the shock body. i changed the bearings on the rear triangle and the rubbing disappeared and everything worked fine again. mmy friend also said that the bearings on his bike were long overdue to be changed (before the shock broke) and maybe (M A Y B E ) some stuck bearings could ( C O U L D ) be the reason for breaking the shocks.Any
The dude with the Elka broke the piston rod after 2 months.
One of them broke a CCDB and two Vivid air in a 2011 frame and got replaced the frame. Now he trashed another CCDB.
Another one trashed his CCDB after 6 months of riding and went through a lent RC2 in two weeks.
They all trashed the piston rod.
Now he waits for a new frame.
I think the yoke on that bike is a real shock trasher. To much force on the shock They seem to have a serious alignment problem on this bike too. Anyone else with same expiriences?
I've been running the adaptor bb since February and it works great. So far no creaking, and no sign of bearing issues despite a couple of race weekends and a dozen full whistler days.
Bearings were swapped a couple f weeks ago, old ones were fine when removed and it was just done out of due diligence.The thing is, they absolutely LOVE their bikes. So lube is no problem
Na, the dude that destroyed 3 shocks on that frame started the season on an Aurum (because his old Demo frame failed that much), which changed the owner over night.
So he had to buy a new bike.
Broke the CCDB after one month (= 4 weekends).
I definitely don't think that the bearings were the problem.
