hi guys
got my greasy hands on one of them new shiny 07 air 888's and of course i just had to take a peek inside....
i spent some time looking for differences and could only come up with that the RC damper rod now has a notch to keep the volume spacer in place, and that some lightening has taken place at the dropouts, oh and the new post mount style brake mount of course. the lower compression adjuster is the same as before (so mind that bolt torque in order not to lose the adjuster) but the upper rebound adjuster is a slick triangular job.
crowns, stem and steerer are the same at least to my eye.
the air spring side is of course all new and very interesting.
the ATA adjuster has two movable flaps that make it really easy to crank, its all metal too which of course is so much more macho than plastic. it works pretty much like a uturn, by threading one part into another.
the rest of the cartridge i havent fully understood yet since i havent dissected it, but there are 3 separate air chambers in there, the positive is kinda obvious, the negative too, but the third one seems to work when the main rod hits a rod on the bottom and thus creates a third chamber for bottom out protection, ill look into this later.
as for how it works, well i havent ridden it but my field agent had some trouble getting full travel out of it because it ramps up a lot, i drained a lot of excess oil out of the RC leg but didnt have time to fiddle with the air leg. stictionwise i think it was great, i mean, it wasnt as plush as a coil fork but there are lots of seals in there that have to break in so i expect it to improve a lot, and its already more compliant than what i had expected in the first place.
weight:
straight out of the box, with tags and sticker covers, 3,17kg.
without stem 2,98.
cut steerer and with correct oil level, i would say its going to be around 2,93kg. thats 6,45lbs.
got my greasy hands on one of them new shiny 07 air 888's and of course i just had to take a peek inside....
i spent some time looking for differences and could only come up with that the RC damper rod now has a notch to keep the volume spacer in place, and that some lightening has taken place at the dropouts, oh and the new post mount style brake mount of course. the lower compression adjuster is the same as before (so mind that bolt torque in order not to lose the adjuster) but the upper rebound adjuster is a slick triangular job.
crowns, stem and steerer are the same at least to my eye.
the air spring side is of course all new and very interesting.
the ATA adjuster has two movable flaps that make it really easy to crank, its all metal too which of course is so much more macho than plastic. it works pretty much like a uturn, by threading one part into another.
the rest of the cartridge i havent fully understood yet since i havent dissected it, but there are 3 separate air chambers in there, the positive is kinda obvious, the negative too, but the third one seems to work when the main rod hits a rod on the bottom and thus creates a third chamber for bottom out protection, ill look into this later.
as for how it works, well i havent ridden it but my field agent had some trouble getting full travel out of it because it ramps up a lot, i drained a lot of excess oil out of the RC leg but didnt have time to fiddle with the air leg. stictionwise i think it was great, i mean, it wasnt as plush as a coil fork but there are lots of seals in there that have to break in so i expect it to improve a lot, and its already more compliant than what i had expected in the first place.
weight:
straight out of the box, with tags and sticker covers, 3,17kg.
without stem 2,98.
cut steerer and with correct oil level, i would say its going to be around 2,93kg. thats 6,45lbs.