What tool tightens the lock ring?If you're an experienced home mechanic, try greasing and tightening down by feel. Needs to be pretty darn tight.
Love the bike. Only thing I am maybe unimpressed with is the bearing/linkage and shock mount, and maybe the paint quality.
any 20-spline bottom bracket type tool will workWhat tool tightens the lock ring?
Don't forget that you will need a crank extractor to get to the lockring. Park CCP-44 (or the one without the handle). Then you can tighten with a BBT-22.What tool tightens the lock ring?
I believe all the EXe-ISIS cranks have extractors built in. So you should only need a big hex key and a torque wrench. (be sure its a torque wrench that also works in LEFT HAND threads)Don't forget that you will need a crank extractor to get to the lockring. Park CCP-44 (or the one without the handle). Then you can tighten with a BBT-22.
Nope. At least the 9.7 doesn’t.I believe all the EXe-ISIS cranks have extractors built in. So you should only need a big hex key and a torque wrench. (be sure its a torque wrench that also works in LEFT HAND threads)
160 /150 would have been the sweet spot IMOWhat would be your ideal choice of suspension for the EXe?
I think at 170 it’s a bit out of balance unless you increase the rear travel, here is mine with 170 we fitted a 160 air shaft yesterday which is much better.So I have a 9.5 in black turning up next week, and the intention is to swap out some of the lower end components with better stuff that I have lying around/fitted to other bikes.
The bike comes with a rockshox gold 35rl fork that has an axle to crown length of 567mm for the 150mm travel fork.
I have the option of fitting either a fox 36 ebike factory 160mm fork that has a 567mm axle to crown, or a fox 38 factory 170mm fork that has a 577mm axle to crown length. I'm tempted to just go with the 170mm 38, but I wonder whether its overkill and I should just put the 36 160mm fork on it and save a bit of weight.
I'm not the best person to answer since the EXe is the first time I've ever owned a crankset that needed an extractor, but there is an extractor that is the same size just without the handle. However, there are other extractors with different ODs that fit different cranks. Just make sure you have or get one with the right OD that will fit the cranks on the EXe.Is the CCP-44 Crank Extractor similar to these attached photos just without the handle?
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What rear shock?I am running a 2022 Fox 36 Performance Elite GRIP2 160mm w/PUSH ACS3 coil upgrade on my Exe 9.5 and all I can say is it's spectacular on this bike. Just a stunning setup, I wouldn't change a thing about it. I am shredding trails I previously had to get off and walk on my high end Stumpjumper. Small and mid bump sensitivity is smooth as butter yet still supple and lively somehow. I don't know how else to explain it. Flies and feels like an XC bike on the easy flowy stuff but then I purposely aim for bigger rocks on the trails now to awe at the way it just rolls over them yet still feels so very nimble and fast. Hard to explain as I never felt a suspension like it before. The ACS3 coil conversion is just another level from anything I tried before. Total fork weight is around 2280g so not too bad weight penalty over a normal 36.
Was considering a 38 factory originally but my LBS talked me out of it saying it would make the bike feel less nimble/agile.
I’d probably look at a Garbaruk cassette or similar rather than spending on a hub/driver for a lower quality wheel. I think I’ve done it before to get 12 speed on HG.It looks like the wheelset that comes on the 9.5 model is (unsurprisingly) quite low end and only comes with a standard HG shimano freehub , does anyone know whether it is possible to buy either an sram XD freehub or shimano microspline freehub, so that a decent 12 speed cassette can be fitted?
I ditched mine, I needed the reach a bit shorter and the bar a bit higher. For now I’m using cheap 35mm stem an 40mm rise, will get something nice later when I’m sure on the rise I want.Who ditched the integrated bar and stem that comes with the 9.8 and higher and why?
Thinking of getting one for my 9.7.
The 9.5 is micro spline not HG. FWIW I just changed my 9.5 wheels to Line Pro 30s that were setup for microspline (off Pinkbike) and everything fit seamlessly.It looks like the wheelset that comes on the 9.5 model is (unsurprisingly) quite low end and only comes with a standard HG shimano freehub , does anyone know whether it is possible to buy either an sram XD freehub or shimano microspline freehub, so that a decent 12 speed cassette can be fitted?
Just the Deluxe Select Plus the 9.5 comes with - it's doing fine once dialed in. I'd like to get a PUSH Eleven.Six at some point though.What rear shock?
Who ditched the integrated bar and stem that comes with the 9.8 and higher and why?
Thinking of getting one for my 9.7.
Thanks Levity, sadly those seem unattainable in the US, at least in a 203mm size. My shop says they don’t exist on Shimanos B2B page. I’m experimenting with a variety of hacks…@Emailsucks98 - these XT rotors are nice and may work for ya
Ah that's interesting, the specs imply its an HG cassette, I'll wait until it arrives and check it.The 9.5 is micro spline not HG. FWIW I just changed my 9.5 wheels to Line Pro 30s that were setup for microspline (off Pinkbike) and everything fit seamlessly.
That's a good point if it does come with HG hubTo
I’d probably look at a Garbaruk cassette or similar rather than spending on a hub/driver for a lower quality wheel. I think I’ve done it before to get 12 speed on HG.
I’ll probably go back to XT 11 speed though when mine wears, it just shifts perfectly and easier to get and keep tuned. I’ll do that with a Garbaruk it saves a chunk of weight and should last well on the EXe.
How do you get on with it? I like the sound of "minimal setup time, maximum grip and minimal maintenance"I had plans to upgrade my 9.5 with a Fox Factory 36, but changed my mind and bought a Marzocchi Bomber Z1 coil. Planning to check it out for this weekend
I think there is a bulleton on the guide. spacers installed incorrectlyThe chain guide is not tight\narrow enough. Try using thicker washers to space out from frame a little more and then some mastic tape inside of it on the outboard side. Will solve the dropped chain issue.
This is WAY easier to do if you do it at the same time you are loctiting and fishing the chainring\spider.
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