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Gearbox Frother
So the Honzo is about 1000km into it's life now, and other than repeated rear tyre slashing and one instance of the Cassette loosening, it's been problem free.
I received my order of an MRP Ramp Control unit for it's Pike yesterday, and installed that last night. The thing works exactly as advertised, I was messing around with it on re-inflation, and had just 20PSI in the fork and was clicking it back and forth to see the effects. With 20psi and the full 15 clicks of compression, I couldn't bottom the fork out with my arms, conversely, all the way back and I'd clunk it in no worries. I dealt with Craig over at Steve Cramer Products and they were great to deal with at every step of the process.
Took the new unit out for a spin this morning to have a bit more of a feel for it. Currently running 25% sag (78psi) and was starting with about 8 clicks on the unit, but was fiddling (the beauty of on the fly adjustments!!). Managed to top her out on a faster rock roller exit with 5 clicks on, but had I not seen the O-ring at the top, wouldn't have known about it. I think it will be something I will optimise over time to the trail, and then quite literally just add or remove ramp wherever it's required.
Also, I will mention that I've not run 6fatty on this rig, those are just Light Bicycle 38mm 29er hoops with Minion DHF 2.5, and as you can see, they blow up BIG!!! For a little while there I had the same tyre front and rear, but it was teaching me some bad cornering techniques that weren't exactly transferring well to my other bikes...such as expecting to never lose the rear through ANYTHING no matter how stupid you're being!! Threw a Forecaster on, they don't blow up very big (for a 2.35, they're comparable to an Ardent 2.25), but was certainly a bit easier to pedal this morning.
This bike is still ridiculously dumb fun!!
I received my order of an MRP Ramp Control unit for it's Pike yesterday, and installed that last night. The thing works exactly as advertised, I was messing around with it on re-inflation, and had just 20PSI in the fork and was clicking it back and forth to see the effects. With 20psi and the full 15 clicks of compression, I couldn't bottom the fork out with my arms, conversely, all the way back and I'd clunk it in no worries. I dealt with Craig over at Steve Cramer Products and they were great to deal with at every step of the process.
Took the new unit out for a spin this morning to have a bit more of a feel for it. Currently running 25% sag (78psi) and was starting with about 8 clicks on the unit, but was fiddling (the beauty of on the fly adjustments!!). Managed to top her out on a faster rock roller exit with 5 clicks on, but had I not seen the O-ring at the top, wouldn't have known about it. I think it will be something I will optimise over time to the trail, and then quite literally just add or remove ramp wherever it's required.
Also, I will mention that I've not run 6fatty on this rig, those are just Light Bicycle 38mm 29er hoops with Minion DHF 2.5, and as you can see, they blow up BIG!!! For a little while there I had the same tyre front and rear, but it was teaching me some bad cornering techniques that weren't exactly transferring well to my other bikes...such as expecting to never lose the rear through ANYTHING no matter how stupid you're being!! Threw a Forecaster on, they don't blow up very big (for a 2.35, they're comparable to an Ardent 2.25), but was certainly a bit easier to pedal this morning.
This bike is still ridiculously dumb fun!!
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