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[ticketchecker]

Installing a new rear shock soon, enduro bearing worth it instead of the DU that came from Fox?


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[Yukonrider]

It depends. On my Forbidden the front DU bushing really doesn't move that much, the rear bushing has a pretty big range of motion. Switching to bearings there made a big difference.

If your shock bushings rotate a lot it is worth trying, if they don't I'd probably skip it.

[ticketchecker]

^^makes sense. Thx mang


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[frorider]

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Following up - finally found a bottle cage that has good positioning adjustability. &nbsp;Zefal Pulse S2</p>

[jackstraw]

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Following up - finally found a bottle cage that has good positioning adjustability. Zefal Pulse S2</p>

In the US or overseas?

[XXX-er]

Im petty sure its ALL made overseas I have aluminium cages I got from MEC and they were like 3 $ each pretty low tech but they work fine

[jackstraw]

I don't care where they're made. Looks like you cannot buy locally in the US.

And do you have issues with the Vala fitting a full size bottle?

[brutah]

I need to send my rear shock to fox, heard the turnaround can be as long as 2 months. How do you store the bike without a rear shock?

I've heard that I should remove the rear wheel before removing but that I don't need to release all the air pressure in the shock??? (Still will probably do so)

Can anyone walk me through the process?

[brutah]

I need to send my rear shock to fox, heard the turnaround can be as long as 2 months. How do you store the bike without a rear shock?

I've heard that I should remove the rear wheel before removing but that I don't need to release all the air pressure in the shock??? (Still will probably do so)

Can anyone walk me through the process?

[jackstraw]

Fox got my coil shock back to me in two weeks. I just left the shock out of the bike until I got it back.

On my old Hightower I cut a piece of wood and drilled a couple holes and made a faux shock. I don't even remember why I did that.

[Huskier]

[QUOTE=jackstraw;7234440. I don't even remember why I did that.[/QUOTE]

Science.

[XXX-er]

I don&#39;t care where they&#39;re made. Looks like you cannot buy locally in the US. And do you have issues with the Vala fitting a full size bottle?

I just use a cheap 3$ cage form when MEC.ca was a coop and I like the camelback bottles, the top rubs a bit going in but it fits OK and one bottle is enough for my app cuz not using much water on an Eeb
I have a large water badder in my dakine pack but I took it out to carry a Silky Big Boy 7/24 for cutting out blow down

[Andeh]

Re: Vala & full sized bottles. I had a nice reply written up but these shittastic forums ate it. I can fit a 24oz Podium on my medium Vala in the lower mount position with a Reserve cage, & a 21oz Podium using the Bosch clip-on bottle cage with the range extender mounted in the upper position.

[XXX-er]

So you have the Bosch range extender I didnt bother cuz 600W is enough for me and much like the 630W shimano

I thot the upper set of bottle mounts on the Vala didnt really look like they would be good for anything,

so do you have to start your ride with the extender plugged in or how does that work ??

[jackstraw]

Re: Vala & full sized bottles. I had a nice reply written up but these shittastic forums ate it. I can fit a 24oz Podium on my medium Vala in the lower mount position with a Reserve cage, & a 21oz Podium using the Bosch clip-on bottle cage with the range extender mounted in the upper position.

Right on. I'm guessing I'll be in the low position most of the time. Maybe all the time.

[Andeh]

Yeah, I got the extender but probably will only use it a few times per year. I got ~2,000' more vert out of it riding the same trails all in eMTB+ mode with max power & torque than I get in same mode/same trails but just the battery. The range extender drains in parallel with the main battery as long as they're at the same percentage charge. Otherwise it drains whatever is higher % until they're even. The caveat is that the extender's cable can't handle the full power draw, so if you're only running off the extender, it reduces motor power a little bit (I think I read on Bosch website it drops power ~20%). So it's not ideal to use it how most MTBers would like (stash it in a bush near the bottom of a riding zone, run laps with lighter bike until it's low, then click on the extender), but you could. It's also pretty chonky, 3.3 lbs according to my scale, so I raise my suspension pressures a little bit when I use it. FYI there are a couple little 2mm hex grub screws filling the range extender bolt holes to keep mud/water out. If you swap, you've got swap those over to the water bottle holes.