Got my PUSHed shock back...

I sent my ailing Fox Vanilla to PUSH industries to get the platform damping upgrade and I got it back yesterday. The change is amazing... I can now pedal my Kona Stinky 6 uphill with almost no bobbing. When the shock has to take hard hits it feels like there is an extra inch or two of travel because it doesn't go through the compression/rebound as fast (kinda hard to explain and probably had to do with how poor of shape it was in before). Plus, it has way more pop off of dropoffs because it doesnt compress on the prejump like many shocks do. All I can say, is that this is probably the best 140 bucks I could have spent on my bike. I can recommend their service to anyone... www.pushindustries.com

"Push it. Push it real good."
-Salt n Peppa

Sweet!

Now you can actually go ride that puppy on some terrain when you get back to CO. I am stuck in philly without a bike, eating cheesesteaks drinking yuengling, life is tough, but i am getting fat in a hurry.

i've been thinking about doing this w/ my fox float. what was the turnaround?

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Originally posted by Mustonen
i've been thinking about doing this w/ my fox float. what was the turnaround?

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Sent July 28th... at my door, better than ever, on Aug 9th.

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Originally posted by Crinkle
Now you can actually go ride that puppy on some terrain when you get back to CO. I am stuck in philly without a bike, eating cheesesteaks drinking yuengling, life is tough, but i am getting fat in a hurry.

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Trails... pssshh... it's an urban assault vehicle.

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AMEN!

I said-a, can i get an AMEN?

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AMEN!




wow. just did 3 rides on my newly PUSHed shock (mt. creek plans fell through this weekend)--did some DH laps at the city ski hill (300' vert rock gardens), hucking and such at lynn woods, and some singletrack with lots of stunts and mucho climbing up in ME this weekend. All I can say is: I like my big bike again.

it still bobs a little, but it's an 8" travel pig, and it is very far from the energy sucking bobbing i was getting before (at least, comparing it to my ss hardtail). so, for the long, shitty big climbs, it's better....big deal...

it is also better at:
-popping up onto stuff-less spongy feeling on ups
-sprints up through rock gardens (even popping up on ledges at the top of the climb)
-general popping, lifting the bike, throwing the bike around at speed--the bike just feels more flickable now
-mashing down through rock gardens--combination of more flickability, less bottom out, less sponginess just lets you rail faster through stuff
-much less fatigue because i wasn't squishing my energy away or getting beat up because of no suspension
-the couple of drops i did felt great

some of this may be attributed to the fact that I re-went through the setup of the suspension (read-set preload, set the c & r to the middle, up the c damping by 1 click, ride, up the c damping by 1 more click), but shit, for what it cost me to do it, and the fact that all it took was to undo 2 bolts, mail the shock in, wait 6 days (PUSH called me to let me know when it arrived even), and bolt it back on (no shimming, adjusting oil heights, losing small parts behind the workbench, pumping things up, filing things down, hacksaws, mallets or temper tantrums required--crank 2 bolts and go riding), it's my kind of upgrade and well worth it.