Raaw Madonna V2.2

The bike looks awesome. Im guessing the fun level is very high! How many psi of gnar are you running in the tyres?
 
pink poodle said:
The bike looks awesome. Im guessing the fun level is very high! How many psi of gnar are you running in the tyres?
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Thank you. It gives me many stokes. I generally run 19ish front and 22ish rear. Rear only as I run an insert. If not it would be more.
 
It is important to ham as much gnar in the last tyres as you can. It gives the sends.
 
komdotkom said:
I'm 75kg ready to ride and have the mid point tune from Dougal in it, but I suspect we have different tune sheets. The one I saw from Kten was quite different. I'm 80/45 in mine and it's not as buttery smooth as my other Mezzer but that's had the Rulezman treatment so I was also wondering if a burnish would help. Amazing fork once things get rough though, it just gets better the rougher the trail is!
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@komdotkom the burnished fork is night and day difference. It’s hard to tell how much is the burnishing as I raised travel to 180, compression and rebound tune, fresh oil etc but the fork feels ridiculously good. Got a little bit of fettling to get it in the sweet spot but I’m beyond stoked with it. I had to put 10psi above the Manitou recommended where as before I was running 10 less.
Happy to loan you the burnishing head. The handle is on loan so I can only send you the head but I might try and finagle something up my myself.
 
Had my first ride on the Deviate with Mezzer in many months, reminded me what a damn amazing fork it is. Haven’t burnished or tuned anything on it either.
 
@Jpez very kindly allowed me to borrow his Mezzer burnishing tool, jesus what a difference! To start with I could hardly get the tool in the hole it was such a tight fit (I commonly have this issue) and it took me 30 mins to get both legs sorted. I went for a ride at Smiths yesterday and I can't believe how much change there was in the small bump sensitivity. I finally got a chance to wind some compression adjustment into the fork because previously with the added stiction I'd been running it wide open.
Interestingly the burnishing pattern on the DU bushes was not even with many high spots showing up as 6-8mm shiny sections on the surface of the bush. I had expected that there would be larger sections where the bush was deformed from the fitting process or misalignment.
Anyway 100% worth doing.
 
komdotkom said:
@Jpez very kindly allowed me to borrow his Mezzer burnishing tool, jesus what a difference! To start with I could hardly get the tool in the hole it was such a tight fit (I commonly have this issue) and it took me 30 mins to get both legs sorted. I went for a ride at Smiths yesterday and I can't believe how much change there was in the small bump sensitivity. I finally got a chance to wind some compression adjustment into the fork because previously with the added stiction I'd been running it wide open.
Interestingly the burnishing pattern on the DU bushes was not even with many high spots showing up as 6-8mm shiny sections on the surface of the bush. I had expected that there would be larger sections where the bush was deformed from the fitting process or misalignment.
Anyway 100% worth doing.
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Stoked it improved it mate! Bushings on all forks seems to be a slightly problematic issue leaving many people to think their brand new fork of whatever brand sux.
It’s a shame that all manufacturers don’t burnish each fork. Surely wouldn’t add too much cost.
 
LPG said:
I'm due for a service on my Mezzer, where do I sign up for this cult?
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I did an oopsie on my Mezzer and haven't looked at it for 3 months, now all of a sudden I want to revitalise it too!
Give me that sweet small bump action too
 
Jpez said:
Stoked it improved it mate! Bushings on all forks seems to be a slightly problematic issue leaving many people to think their brand new fork of whatever brand sux.
It’s a shame that all manufacturers don’t burnish each fork. Surely wouldn’t add too much cost.
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I agree. I'm sure I read somewhere that EXT do this but can't find a reference to it now.

Regardless, I had the V2.1 upgraded bushings pushed into my ERA for by Trav at MTB Suspension Works and it's gone up a level in smoothness. Had to add a few PSI. Amazing how quick you get used to it though and it just becomes new normal.
 
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