Ordered a tune a couple of weeks ago for a Van Performance/RC on my Glory that currently feels like ass. Waiting for them to have an opening in their schedule to send it in. For those of you that have used Avy before, how do their tunes match up with their beginner/sport/expert/semi-pro/pro designation? If I raced I'd probably enter expert for a local race, but at a national I might go down to sport to feel it out.
IMO, if you are blowing smoke and pretend you ride as hard as a pro (filling that out on the form), it’s going to feel pretty bad. If you are honest, it’ll be damn good and you’ll be able ride it hard.
Craig will call you and discuss what you want from the shock, and will come up with ideas and seek your feedback on trade offs.
He advises against RC4 mods, especially the fat shafts, prefers people to go the Van RC / Bomber CR route.
I am going to put it on the bike for a week of riding before sending it in.
From what I gather that should be quite the experience
The Van Performance that came on my Glory sucks on that bike. Medium/large hits feel both harsh and uncontrolled. Increasing low speed compression just makes the harsh part worse without significant improvement to support.
Pretty well I think. But it's one of those things you have to be really honest about your riding abilities. I have their damper in an old fox 40 and have been really happy with it.
Sounds like you need a bear face on that knob, too.
No, it depends on the bike and most importantly, the stroke/LR. But if you have to convert a fat-shaft AND tune it, it's prohibitively expensive.
A lot of what you are choosing is compression, from what I gathered is the sport vs expert is size of drops and jumps. So the HSC can be set so it doesn't completely blow through on 5-6' drops and big jumps. But you'll get more feed back in chatter unless your speed is really fast.
I remembered one other thing to tell you. I don't know how the current carbon/aluminum megatrails are, but assuming yours is an aluminum one, the nifty machine work at the mount for the rear shock eyelet to make it easy to switch between suspension modes excludes the use of the fox style polymer shock eyelet bushing hardware. I had to use rockshox bushing hardware on the Fox SSD RC to make it work with the megatrail. The fox mounting hardware works fine at the front eyelet.
Nah. Metric only, non-existent support in the US, climb switch and no custom valving. For me, the only appeal of these single tube shocks is custom valving and simplicity.
That write up says there doesn't appear to be any user serviceable bits in the piggyback. It's still going to have a base valve piston and shims on the shaft where the biggest difference can be made. Everything is fuckable. Just gotta have the right tools.
It depends what your mid travel bike is.
