Finally done!! my dh race bike!
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Finally done!! my dh race bike!
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 mmmmmmmm describes that very well Smile Lovely bike dude
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 haha thanks man!
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 thats just an awesome bike! can i steal it please Big Grin
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 haha if you wanna fly over here.
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 lol looking at the spec, it would be cheaper to fly over and steal it then go out and build one my self lol
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 That does make sense Razz Can i have your adress please lol
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 lol it does make sense, think of how much it sould cost to buy all the parts then build, where as flying over would be cheaper lol
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 Can i steal it if i drive over there?
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 how do you like the air shock for downhill. and what are your settings?
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 its fairly good. I'm only going to use for this season because i don't have 500+ to spend on a new good coil shock. I run the boost valve at 120-140 psi and the main chamber at 220-240 psi. For whistler and stuff that has bigger hits i would up the main chamber psi to 260 or so.
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 Funny thing with air shocks is the 'parking lot test' always sucks, but once on the trail it's no different. My buddy has a DHX air on his Mongoose Blackdiamond triple but he won't let me do a 'full test' Rolleyes involving bigger hit style jumps/drops. So it ramps up pretty good at the end of the stroke? Kinda hard/really hard to bottom-out?
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 yea, you just have to be more precise when setting it up. I find that they are less forgiving than coils. He probably didn't let you test it out because it wasn't set up exactly for you.
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 Haha yeah he is much lighter than me, but I'm a more aggressive rider than he is and it's also an inside joke that I can't touch his bike and he never wants to ride mine.

I'm running a very nicely rebuilt manitou (leave company 'reputation' outta this Razz ) it's just rebound, extra air resevior to pump up for bottom-out resistance, and a adjust to chance the volume size of the resevior. It's only got 1 rebound setting (no high/low) and after about 60% stroke it slows down, as if hitting a big lip so that it doesn't buck you if you get my drift, weird how it's like that.
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 yea, manitou was fairly good. I had a 5th element on this bike before my air shock. It had high and low, beginning and end stroke adjustment and all that but after i had to rebuild it twice i gave up. here is my bike with the 5th: http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/2868287/ I no longer had this bike anymore. I bike a cove shocker now.... same suspension set up as my orange had.







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