The Fox patented Boost Valve technology has a lot going in its tight little package, Boost Valve provides a feeling of endless travel and plushness like that of a downhill rig, but with with XC pedaling efficiency and Large-volume air sleeve design helps reduce ramp up towards the end of the travel with a more progressive feel. End rant.With great performance and pedaling efficiency in a lightweight package for XC racing to All-mountain riding. I do know plenty of people who really like the new Fox stuff. Build dampers that actually, uhh - damp, and build them to last. I mean, it's light, has high-tech slick coatings, cool features, but c'mon. The new Fox stuff just doesn't hold a candle. All metal dampers (or at least more metal), lasts forever, amazing damping (especially when modified to run heavy oil), just quality stuff. Pricing is too good to pass up and I'm impressed with my XF fork and its damping. The O2 is coming with a 'custom tune' for my frame, whatever that means, so we'll see how that works. I can finally ditch the entire 'high-end' Kashima coat bullshit on my bike. It should hopefully work well on the bike with an X-Fusion fork already on the front end. X-Fusion is shipping me a 2012 O2RCX shock. I've never used a Roco, so that's good feedback on that - I may have to check one out one of these times. One of the guys had built his own, helped me sort things out, and never said anything dumb, like "you voided your warranty" or plz send to push. Even on something like my frankenfork I built. I've had 100% positive experiences dealing with them. Also, you can call marzocchi tech support, and they'll answer the phone in a few rings, talk to you like a real person, answer your question, even if it involves modding, servicing, or taking something apart, and help you get riding again. Shreds all day long, great coil feel, the wc has useable high speed compression, and it has lots of mid stroke support. If you don't mind a little weight, the roco air is, in my opinion, the best air shock out there. Still not a great shock in my opinion, but way better than rp23z. With a little know how it is super easy to purge a little air out of the oil if it gets in there, and if you are hands on, there are a bunch of good threads on mtbr about bleeding and oil changes. You can put a shim or two in the high volume can to give it some ramp up, and it doesn't have a nitrogen charge. Srsly, if your frame can fit it, and you have a choice, go dhx air every time. Both are easy to service/bleed yourself with a little know-how which is nice if you ride all year round and want to save some cash.Īfter alot of riding, every rp will do that, and you'll have to do the same thing to it (unless you have a friend who services snomo/atv suspension and has a nitro tank and nitro needle and some 7mm o-ring cordage) For the price the rebuild will cost, might want to consider a used monarch or a dhx air if you had any desire to go that direction. I had a dhx air start doing that after a few weeks of riding and they took care of it for me. #How does fox float rp23 work freeMight get a discount from fox or free service if it's new enough. Send to push or fox service center, depending on how long you want to wait. Since fox is butt-tarded you can't service it yourself. Some air has gotten into the dampening oil. The dampening oil is kept under pressure by the internal floating piston, which has a 300-400 psi nitro charge behind it. There is air in the oil, or oil in the air of your damper, depending how you want to look at it. not that there is any indication of the shock taking a hit when I crashed. I did not remove high volume sleeve or replace can with low volume to test, but popped can open to take a look inside.Ĭrashed my brains out recently seems like timeframe of this starting roughly coincides, but not exactly. Same behavior at low pressures (can be experienced by hand with shock off bike) and at high pressures (as felt on bike). Internal volume spacer is in normal position. Quick check shows it is holding air, has Float fluid, seals appear normal. Obviously, it's not actually topping out because it is nowhere near the top of the stroke, but that's how it feels when it catches. So it almost feels like it tops out - like a clunk/thud as the initial rebound is "caught" before the rest of the rebound stroke is damped. However, as it begins to rebound, the first 10mm or so of rebound stroke is undamped (or barely damped - hard to tell) - it pops back quickly in initial rebound and then almost feels like it tops out/catches, and the rest of the rebound stroke is damped as the shock continues back to sagged position. Shock is 2013 or 2012 Fox Float RP23 (not CTD) Kashima-Coat with high volume sleeve. Damping not functional for initial ~10 or ~15mm of rebound stroke.
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