I have sold the Performance Elite shock to the original poster, but I do have the Performance one let (which I haven't advertised yet).
Am in Gloucestershire, but happy to post out.
Will drop you a message.
Leverage ratio is already crazy high on the stock bike/stock link, which is why air pressures in the shocks & spring weights are so high.
Increasing travel only increases the leverage ratio further, so even more air pressure/spring weight. The don't recommend coils because you would have to...
I have 2 different 2022 shocks for sale:
- Float X2 Performance (brand new, never used), for £295 with LSC & LSR adjustment
- Fox X2 Performance Elite. Had about 1 months use, same as the factory shock, just with a black stanchion. HSC/LSC & HSR/LSR.
Both are air shocks. Can get you some pics...
I think it’s more than likely the frame, rather than the shock. I ran a few different options on mine to try and improve the overall performance/feel (coil and air) - they all felt sticky/knocky at a point in the travel.
I have run a Float X2 & a DHX2 on my Kenevo SL and they feel totally...
It’s supposedly 19% (same as the Stumpy Evo). So in short, no, it’s really not very progressive, at all.
Not progressive enough IMO, easy to bottom out for faster riders, and already needs a high spring rate.
The trouble with CC links is they tend to increase travel too, which means an even...
Price isn’t really a consideration for me, if it’s something in terms of geometry/travel etc then I’ll make a decision based on that.
That said however, the Gen3 Levo wasn’t really the one for me. I was lumping round a battery which I barely used more than 50% at any one time, a motor turned...
Well you would reduce the travel down to ~143mm, around the point the suspension is designed to naturally 'ramp up' on bigger hits (due to the progressive nature of an air shock). You may as a result find it bottoms out easier & harder.
Which to me, would be an issue, as the rear suspension on...
For the sake of clarity, as per the other Yeti post, you are referring to the Gen 2 Levo, not the Gen 3. I think @R120 covers the salient points in his post.
Then I definitely wouldn't pick the Yeti ;)
In fact, it wouldn't even be in the top 10.
We question it, because it's not always the case that it works the way it should.
Take for example the Specialized Demo DH bike. A few years ago, they designed it, tested it with their pro riders & went into production, only to find a huge number of frame failures from the general public. Turns...
As you re-quoted me directly on this. For the sake of comparison. I have actually now ridden one of the new Yeti's, I don't own one, so no confirmation bias. I would agree, comparing to the Gen 2 Levo, it's an improvement. But then you are comparing a brand new bike to a one that's nearly 4...
I didn’t actually ride it with the stock tyres, they literally went in the bin as soon as I got home 😆
I don’t notice any issue with the wandering front end, unless its silly steep & i’m in turbo, which is always an opportunity for disaster...
Never experienced hardening Maxxis decent compounds, which is ironic because virtually every complaint about how sh*t Specialized tyres are isdriven by how hard the compounds are, unless you are in the Sarhara Desert 😆
However, they still arnt ‘quite’ as sh*t as an Eddy Current (in any conditions)!
2.5 Assegai Maxx Grip DD front & 2.4 DHR2 Maxx Terra DD rear. Exactly the same on my leg bike.
Only change I make for winter is now the Shorty2 in the same compound on the front.
Nope, none. Personally with an ebike you can mask a whole lot of geometry issues because it has a motor, but the Levo is pretty good all round, bar the slightly tall BB height (IMO).
Yes, I run mine with a 170 fork & in the slack/low setting.
The stack height is fairly low on the Levo anyway, so I compensate it with some slightly higher rise bars to get my bar height to my usual preference.
whilst in the slack setting the bike is slack for sure, it’s not actually that low...