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Re: Carbonda fm936 Thoughts Riding a 42.5 shock I can tell you the chance of having isseus is minimal. Rode a bikepark!! with this bike without problems. Even cleared a jump of several meters!
Did also some enduro tracks in the Dolomites(Italien Alps) as xc biking there and it was great. Better than last years biking with a canyon nerve; better going up and way better going down.
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July 20, 2020, 04:01:52 AM 		1
Re: Carbonda fm936 Thoughts I've been riding a 42.5 mm stroke shock on my size L frame since March. Plenty of clearance with the shock bottomed out, never had any contact between the seat stay brace and seat tube. Not even any semblance of worry that it might happen, because it won't.
And yes, I have bottomed. I jump the thing, come off drops, ride it like a MTB should be ridden, not just on some lame gravel trails.
I ride cross country trails, flow trails, trails with natural technical rocks, roots, drops, jumps terrain, sanitized bike park trails with manufactured jumps and drops. I'll take the natural terrain trails all day every day over manufactured bike park stuff.
And I'm 225 lbs.

But sure, you guys keep on going on about your hypotheticals. In the real world, the 42.5 mm stroke works beautifully with the frame.
July 24, 2020, 12:21:56 PM 		1
Re: Carbonda fm936 Thoughts
Quote from: brex on July 24, 2020, 12:21:56 PM
I've been riding a 42.5 mm stroke shock on my size L frame since March. Plenty of clearance with the shock bottomed out, never had any contact between the seat stay brace and seat tube. Not even any semblance of worry that it might happen, because it won't.
And yes, I have bottomed. I jump the thing, come off drops, ride it like a MTB should be ridden, not just on some lame gravel trails. Cross country trails, flow trails, trails with natural technical rocks, roots, drops, jumps terrain, sanitized bike park trails with manufactured jumps and drops. I'll take the natural terrain trails all day every day over manufactured bike park stuff.
And I'm 225 lbs.

But sure, you guys keep on going on about your hypotheticals. In the real world, the 42.5 mm stroke works beautifully with the frame.

Same here. While I don't have a ton of mileage on the bike yet I've been riding this bike hard with a 42.5mm shock. Natural, non-groomed terrain. I took a good size drop on my ride this morning and there is not a hint of contact between the seat stay brace and the seat tube.

There are several people in this long thread using 42.5 with zero issues. If someone is actually having seat stay brace and seat tube contact at bottom out with this size shock then that's an anomaly.

Still, official spec from Carbonda DOES list 165x40mm.
July 24, 2020, 12:44:03 PM 		1