Protection is awesome; the plate is formed to the frame and lined with an impact foam…it’s tight with no rattle and the composite is almost 1/4 in thick - have put a few scratches and scrapes on it with no issue and have slammed it into a log on occasion when I had a rider error trying to clear...
Ok, so it looks like I'm going to be diving into the deep end solo yet again...
Went ahead and added a new set of Hope rotors today, moving up to 220 in the front but stayed with a 200 in the rear.
Decided to try Hope's semi-floating rotors in the hope that they will handle the heat better...
Not meant to be punny 🤮 - lol
I want to know...what size rotors are you running on your Crestline? I decided to start on 200's with the Mavens but am considering the jump to 220 in the front (yes, 203 is the max in the rear). Anyone running the the Maven 220 combo?
Phenom Comp has Cr Mo rails 265g but same warranty -- never had trouble with my Phenom S Works on my oft abused SC Blur. Bummer that you ran into trouble, seems hot or miss on carbon rails.
I have both and can say I notice no difference. Unless you need the cable routing it's not worth the spend (says the guy who bought it and doesn't regret it but wouldn't do it again knowing what I know now).
I believe SRAM spec's a chainline of 55mm but 52-55mm will work - that said, extremes on the cassette are a problem when you're on a 52mm chainline but are spec'ed for a 55mm. The advice I got was go up or down a few teeth in front based on where you are spending the most time riding as you want...
Did you say that it was pushing you to upgrade to a newer release? The product manager in me is betting that they are "incenting" you to upgrade by messing with the Bluetooth radio. Since they have control over the Bluetooth stack, they could easily implement protocols that restrict connections...
What chainline are you running? I think it’s a 52mm for mechanical SRAM…the chainring should be fine but I don’t know what the offset is for the Hope cranks but I assume you have the correct ‘line if not, I’d addressed that first as it can contribute to breaks - do you know what gear you’re in...
I hear you on the sessioning trails being a PITA...I pretty much only ride my Crestline now so I just putter back up the hill and give it another go so that I can fiddle with the dials if I think I can make things better (not that I do it much anyway)...
Now on my Blur XC bike it's a totally...
So, going back to your original post -I did the same thing with the Fox Rhythm on my Blur but I went with an older model Reba that my friend had taken off a bike on day-1 to swap in a Fox. I upgraded the damper and threw in a MRP and it was a great shock and felt better than the new Sids did...
You do you! Happy to talk more about forks as they’re more fun to tinker with than rear shocks.
Personally, I’ve been playing with pushing the limits on experimenting with my Zebs air shock and damper to achieve as much of a coil feel as possible while working on actually converting a new Fox...
That's true, also don't get hung up on buying a certain brand or the top-tier shock/fork - I did a lot of research on a replacement shock for my Santa Cruz Blur XC bike, and it turned out that the best one for what I wanted was a Manitou (which I had never used)... every rider that described a...
I used a Shockwiz for a time, but I still found that there was a good amount of tweaking by feel that had to be done after it got you in the neighborhood. Even with a custom tune from Vorsprung on my Telum, I still find myself reaching out to Steve to get advice on how to tweak the tune for all...
That's fair, but what I was trying to get at was the "what's wrong with me?" question, and my point was that there's nothing wrong if you don't think there is...yet a lot of folks are going to chime in with a "you need this" or "you need that" and then go on and on vigorously defending their...