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Most of my riding is on hard pack and/or mud with exposed limestone and granite, sharp baby heads and rock gardens, and lots of roots.
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I'm running Schwalbe Hans Dampf tires (29"), tubeless, on 19mm rims. I weigh about 195-200 pounds ready to ride, without water in my pack. Now I'm able to ride significantly faster while maintaining control. This is especially noticeable on off-camber turns where traction is critical. With the new damper, the fork just sucks up roots and square-edge hits, keeping the rubber planted. Cornering on rough ground felt sketchy, especially at high speed. With the old damper, I was never really able to eliminate the tendency for my wheel to either bounce off small obstacles or just pack up, no matter how much I played with compression and rebound damping. This is where tight damping control is absolutely essential to keep the front wheel planted on the trail so it can do its job of traction, braking and steering. Yes! I immediately noticed a significant performance improvement in the form of better tracking and control over stutter bumps and roots. This is what the adjustments on the new damper look like (apologies for the poor focus). It's not cheap (I think I paid around CAD$250 for the upgrade, and OGC kept my old damper) and it's best done at the same time as a fork service (e.g.
HOW TO FIX A BOUNCY FOX FLOAT RP23 UPGRADE
In Canada, you need to arrange the upgrade through your local Fox dealer/bike shop, who will send it to Outdoor Gear Canada for the swap. If you're in the US, you can deal directly with Fox. Fox even offers an upgrade path on their website. Even better, since the fork body remained the same, the 2013 damper can be installed into the 2012 fork. All reports indicated that the new damper performed really well, solving the damping problems of the 2012 and earlier CTD models. The good news is that the problems were tied to the damper design and Fox introduced an improved damper in the 2013 model. This was a surprise because I'd bought my bike in the summer of 2013 as a just-released 2014 model (no discount there!) and I reasonably expected a 2013 fork. And it turns out my fork is a 2012 model-which certainly explained its performance. Some online discussions revealed similar complaints with the 2012 and earlier models. I could get it feeling good, but not great, no matter what settings I tried. It was either too firm and bounced off small obstacles like roots, or too squishy and prone to diving. Both components were a clear improvement over the RLC and RP23 on the Trance: they responded better to bumps, were easier to adjust, felt plusher and, in the case of the fork, were noticeably stiffer and lighter-not least because of the thru-axle design.īut I found it hard to get the fork feeling totally dialed. The bike came specced with Fox Float CTD front and rear, with a sweet Kashima-coated version of the FIT CTD fork and a less-sweet, non-Kashima shock under the seat. Once the honeymoon period ended and I understood the Tallboy's personality, I began to question the performance of the Fox suspension components. The sum of many small-and big-technology improvements in the Tallboy took my riding to a whole new level of fun. In 2013 I upgrades bikes from a five year old Giant Trance XO with 26" wheels, that I built from the frame up with a Fox Talas RLC (adjustable 100/120/140mm travel), to a state-of-the-art 29er: a 2014 Santa Cruz Tallboy 2 Carbon.