[slimshady]

Since I'm very short of money (in the process of buying a house) my main steed this season is a 2007-ish Cannondale Prophet. It has a Fox RP2, which combined with my weight and its regressive suspension curve makes it too easy to bottom to my taste.

Since sending the shock to PUSH from Argentina would cost almost as much as a used shock, I have been lurking on the interwebz for opinions on what to do about it, and found many ones in favor of replacing the original shock with a small-caned RS Monarch.

Now I've found a pushed Monarch AM-RT on Ebay, with the right e2e and stroke, pretty cheap. The guy selling it said it came from a Giant Reign, and he weights almost the same as me (~200 lbs with gear). Now I was wondering if this would fit the Prophet's suspension characteristics right. I've been looking for the Reign's LR chart, but I couldn' find much info on how it compares to the Prophet's one, so any light you expert monkeys could shine on the matter would be much appreciated.

 

[jonKranked]

no idea, but i've heard of people putting slick honey in the air canister of the fox air shocks - makes them more progressive by effectively decreasing the chamber volume.

 

[slimshady]

no idea, but i've heard of people putting slick honey in the air canister of the fox air shocks - makes them more progressive by effectively decreasing the chamber volume.

Prophet's RP2 already comes with an air can spacer placed in, and since this is the small canister, you can't put anything bigger in there to leave less room for air, as per Fox's air can tuning instructions. That's why I was thinking of changing to a shock I could mess with damping by myself.