On your trail bike, or the bike that you ride on trails, are you on a coil or air sprung shock?
Coil or air rear shock for trail?
- Thread starter Sandwich
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I started using coil for everything, except for some smooth flow type trails for better pedaling, because to make the "most out of the vertical", they made the grade shallow, so you end up pedaling your ass off...but, some of those trails have a mix of tech and flow and on one, I was unable to stick to an off-camber root-mess thing during an enduro race with the air shock a few years back (crashed), that I had no trouble with a coil on, so after that I said coil 100% of the time, everywhere. On some vacations I was bringing the air shock and switching it out for the longer XC rides vs. the more freeride gravity stuff, but again, no more. Just no good reason to run air if the bike can take a coil. It's nice to have a backup shock, so that's all I use the air for.
Oh, wait. I picked coil, but I'm on an air shock. I *will* eventually be on coil.
Oh, and loco sucks.
Oh, and loco sucks.
assuming you mean rear shock, no? le coil. 36 floatzorz up front.
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Air. Cause thats what my bike came with, and it was the most economically prudent choice when upgrading. Coil could work just as well for my uses, but at 3x the price I wouldn't get 3x the enjoyment.
Coil rear.
Coil front (Smashpot)
Coil front (Smashpot)
I do.
What size?Goddam you... now you got me looking at coil shocks to replace my DPX2.
I need to do a parts bin purge.
As you should. Itll be 3x the fun!Goddam you... now you got me looking at coil shocks to replace my DPX2.
185 x 52.5 *trunnion*... fucking trunnion.What size?
I need to do a parts bin purge.
My last air -> coil experience was at *least* 3x the fun. 11/10 - would bang again.
Not for your generation, no.
Thats a tough size to find, Öhlins TTX22M Trunnion coil comes in a 185x50 7 185x55185 x 52.5 *trunnion*... fucking trunnion.
My last air -> coil experience was at *least* 3x the fun. 11/10 - would bang again.
There are quite a few mfgr's making that size now... but not much in the used market (yet).
Is it possible to put the longer stroke shock on the bike without cause any adverse issues? Just saying if you wanted to get something not so readily available in aftermarket in coil form?
I did replace my Fox DPX2 with a Push 11.6 on my Evil Offering, changed the bike completely. I don't think it climbs as well with the Fox, but well worth the sacrifice for the DH.
Yeah - I had a CC Inline coil on my old Reign and that damn thing was so buttery smooth in chunder.
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Solid maybe. On some frames it's NBD, on others you may break it.
It also depends on the shock itself - piggyback models vary quite a bit on the size of the piggyback...
Mmm, yes. Solid maybe indeed.