Bird Aeris owners thread

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flag theglenn
Posted: Jul 24, 2018 at 4:13 Quote
Mines got a 150 pike on it, picked it up at the weekend. Can't speak for performance yet as not ridden it properly yet.
Offset on the lyrik 51mm
Offset on the pike 42mm
flag Thorjensen
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Posted: Jul 24, 2018 at 6:43 Quote
Joemmo wrote:
@Arierep - Nice! I bet that colour is super bright in the Portuguese sunshine Cool

@thorjensen - yes the Debonair spring made a noticeable difference to my Yari, much softer on the small bumps. You can see that even with just the weight of the bike on it, the fork is sagged a few mm.

Yup, i've noticed the much softer feel in the start of the travel, and I get the same few mm sag.
Going from 130mm to 140mm and with the new 2019 DebonAir piston I had to increase my psi.
I went from 98psi and 4 tokens to 115psi and 4 tokens to gain 25% sag.
flag bansaiman
Posted: Jul 24, 2018 at 12:20 Quote
Still 4 tokens?dies 8t still lack so much mid support?
Than I would definitely recommend getting the awk for your pike. Best upgrade ever. No tokens not to much damping to needed to compensate. Almost like coil.
flag Joemmo
Posted: Jul 25, 2018 at 2:50 Quote
using 1 token in my 140 Yari - plenty of mid stroke support but a different fork of course
flag Thorjensen
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Posted: Jul 25, 2018 at 6:25 Quote
Joemmo wrote:
using 1 token in my 140 Yari - plenty of mid stroke support but a different fork of course

Well I ad/remove tokens from the amount of travel I use when running 25% sag. My aim is around 80-90% travel use, when standing in pedals and pumping/pressing MAX down on my bars.
flag mdoubleu
Posted: Jul 25, 2018 at 21:17 Quote
The Pike I’m running is 2019, 150mm with a 51mm offset. Running 2 tokens.
Feels good!
flag Thorjensen
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Posted: Jul 26, 2018 at 2:28 Quote
mdoubleu wrote:
The Pike I’m running is 2019, 150mm with a 51mm offset. Running 2 tokens.
Feels good!

At what psi?

I get too much ramp with the 4 tokens now and went back to 2 tokens and about 135psi (110kg rider rdy)
flag bansaiman
Posted: Jul 26, 2018 at 12:04 Quote
Thorjensen wrote:
mdoubleu wrote:
The Pike I’m running is 2019, 150mm with a 51mm offset. Running 2 tokens.
Feels good!

At what psi?

I get too much ramp with the 4 tokens now and went back to 2 tokens and about 135psi (110kg rider rdy)

Again, buy an AWK it is almost like steel and o need for tokens. But still a bit of ramp up at the end like air. And you can adjust it anytime with a Shockpump. No need for opening the fork and silly tokens.
flag Pablo16v
Posted: Jul 27, 2018 at 1:21 Quote
Jazzyg wrote:
That’s what I thought bansai but the 150 Pike is an option along with the Lyrik, Yari and Ribbon.

Nice pics of an AM9 with Ribbon fork on their Facebook page.

photo
flag mdoubleu
Posted: Jul 27, 2018 at 3:39 Quote
bansaiman wrote:
Thorjensen wrote:
mdoubleu wrote:
The Pike I’m running is 2019, 150mm with a 51mm offset. Running 2 tokens.
Feels good!

At what psi?

I get too much ramp with the 4 tokens now and went back to 2 tokens and about 135psi (110kg rider rdy)

Again, buy an AWK it is almost like steel and o need for tokens. But still a bit of ramp up at the end like air. And you can adjust it anytime with a Shockpump. No need for opening the fork and silly tokens.

@Thorjsensen. 68 psi (76kg rider weight)
flag welric
Posted: Jul 27, 2018 at 12:59 Quote
What downtube protector do you guys run? I'm looking for something tough,not just a thin wrap
flag jase111171
Posted: Jul 28, 2018 at 21:57 Quote
welric wrote:
What downtube protector do you guys run? I'm looking for something tough,not just a thin wrap
i just use an old tyre,but I believe rockguardz do one,or that maybe that's for the MK1-1.5s.
flag TIMMY12
Posted: Jul 30, 2018 at 14:56 Quote
welric wrote:
What downtube protector do you guys run? I'm looking for something tough,not just a thin wrap

I'm using this stuff which seems good and has stayed on so far (nearly 12 months).

https://www.allmountainstyle.com/pages/ams-honeycomb-frame-guards
flag chrissampson2
Posted: Jul 31, 2018 at 11:43 Quote
Guys, just received my AM9. Can someone answer a question for me? My frame has an 'L' sticker on the BB shell, and the serial number ends with an 'L'. Is this indicative of the size? However I measure the frame, it seems consistent with the large size (seat tube, ETT, wheelbase). Unfortunately I ordered an M-L. Currently hoping that I'm the mistaken one...

 


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