Interesting, but any personal experiences? Anybody have the seat stay bridge touch the seat tube? Weird kinematics/tuning issues? Drastic changes in BB height/feeling?
How’s it working out? Has using an oversized shock made any negative changes? How’s the fitment? Would love to see a photo!
Have had it installed for a few rides now - so far so good! The bike is an absolute beast on downhills with the coil.
I have the stock 160mm Lyrik up front which I'm about to upgrade to 180mm. The bike feels a bit higher and less slack with the 216x63 coil. The added 20mm of travel should get me back a degree of HA and I want to see how it works out. Apparently it should be good I don't mind the added bb height either and haven't noticed any weird behaviour when riding.
I have -2mm offset bushing on both ends of the coil and haven't had any issues with it. The only downside I'm currently battling is the climbing ability of the bike. It simply isn't as good as the super deluxe was because of the lack of a climb switch. Coil wise I'm already at 550lbs even though the calculators put me at 500lbs. Currently trying out 22-25% of sag to see how it feels when climbing.
How’s it working out? Has using an oversized shock made any negative changes? How’s the fitment? Would love to see a photo!
Have had it installed for a few rides now - so far so good! The bike is an absolute beast on downhills with the coil.
I have the stock 160mm Lyrik up front which I'm about to upgrade to 180mm. The bike feels a bit higher and less slack with the 216x63 coil. The added 20mm of travel should get me back a degree of HA and I want to see how it works out. Apparently it should be good I don't mind the added bb height either and haven't noticed any weird behaviour when riding.
I have -2mm offset bushing on both ends of the coil and haven't had any issues with it. The only downside I'm currently battling is the climbing ability of the bike. It simply isn't as good as the super deluxe was because of the lack of a climb switch. Coil wise I'm already at 550lbs even though the calculators put me at 500lbs. Currently trying out 22-25% of sag to see how it feels when climbing.
Awesome thanks for sharing! I'd imagine with two offset bushings the difference would be negligible. Whats the clearance of the seat stay bridge like? It's quite close with the stock shock but with a longer stroke and bushings is it even closer?
My only experience is on a 2017 mega 275, but going from 216x63 to 220.5x70 (222x70 with offset bushing) was a very noticeable difference in handling.
Not in a good way.
Steepened the HA and put too much weight on the front. It wanted to kill me on hard landings. However, I think at least part of that was from the compression damping on the new shock being too high (M/M Kage). Big hits though would throw me forward on the bike and everything got super squirrelly at that point.
I'm back on the 216, but I might try going up to 180mm on the fork and revalving the 222 shock. But honestly, 170/160 travel already makes almost every trail feel pretty calm. Not sure I want it any more calm.
My only experience is on a 2017 mega 275, but going from 216x63 to 220.5x70 (222x70 with offset bushing) was a very noticeable difference in handling.
Not in a good way.
Steepened the HA and put too much weight on the front. It wanted to kill me on hard landings. However, I think at least part of that was from the compression damping on the new shock being too high (M/M Kage). Big hits though would throw me forward on the bike and everything got super squirrelly at that point.
I'm back on the 216, but I might try going up to 180mm on the fork and revalving the 222 shock. But honestly, 170/160 travel already makes almost every trail feel pretty calm. Not sure I want it any more calm.
I’ve gone up to a 170mm fork on my 290, so I think adding the 8.5x2.5 would maybe level it out. When I look at my frame with a measuring tape the difference between the stock shock and 8.5” looks like even less that the numbers would suggest. Hoping to find a cheap Vivid to throw on and see what happens
Just a quick one, I have a nukeproof mega 2019 rs 27.5. Does anyone know how many chain links the eagle 12 speed has please managed to snap my chain and lost part of it. Any help would be great
I'm sure you probably got your answer already, but in the slim chance you didn't, there are 58 outer links (116 total)
Also don’t forget the increased sag from running more travel will offset some of the difference. If you add 22mm travel total, it will be more like 15mm at sag. That’s about 0.75 degrees steeper on the head angle with the stock fork.
Here’s some sagged measurements from my experiments with my mega 290. It’s fitted with a 170mm fork for reference
RS super deluxe 210x55 Seat from bbtm of saddle at full compression 30mm Bb height at full compression 252mm Bb height at sag 315mm (27% sag) HA at sag 63.8
216x63 coil shock with 2mm offset bushes fitted at both ends Seat from bttm of seat at full compression 35mm Bb height at full compression 250mm Bb Height at sag 312mm (27%) HA at sag 64.9
The head angle was too steep for my liking, I considered a works components headset to get it back where I like but in the end I went back to the stock setup. There where no clearance issues anywhere. ( I realise that the seat from tyre measurement depends on where you seat height is set but I just used to for reference that I was still getting good clearance at bottom out)
Here’s some sagged measurements from my experiments with my mega 290. It’s fitted with a 170mm fork for reference
RS super deluxe 210x55 Seat from bbtm of saddle at full compression 30mm Bb height at full compression 252mm Bb height at sag 315mm (27% sag) HA at sag 63.8
216x63 coil shock with 2mm offset bushes fitted at both ends Seat from bttm of seat at full compression 35mm Bb height at full compression 250mm Bb Height at sag 312mm (27%) HA at sag 64.9
The head angle was too steep for my liking, I considered a works components headset to get it back where I like but in the end I went back to the stock setup. There where no clearance issues anywhere. ( I realise that the seat from tyre measurement depends on where you seat height is set but I just used to for reference that I was still getting good clearance at bottom out)
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The bike is an absolute beast on downhills with the coil.
