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29er / Re: LightCarbon 918?
« on: October 24, 2022, 10:15:03 AM »
Has anyone tried a 165x40 or 165x42.5 shock? does the frame support it?
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The 42.5mm shock works well, it seems to give more than 100mm but as far as I know we don't know exactly how much travel but probably 110-120mm. It feels natural with this stroke size so no worries there.Hello, I live in Mallorca (Spain) and I do all kinds of routes and terrain, of course I also endured descents. In my land there is a lot of Stone. The idea is to change bikes to get a better performance going down and not going up slower ... If the carbonda doesn't go down much faster than my current top fuel xc, I don't think I'm interested in changing bikes.
The bike is being raced a national level (https://www.facebook.com/patxiciafanpage) and was even in the recent XCO world champs so it's clearly capable. I'm going to be riding it with 120mm in the National Points Series (hopefully) here in Ireland and I'm going to be keeping the 120mm Sid Select rather than 100mm due to the terrain here. I wouldn't worry about the head angle, people said the same every time it gets slacker - You don't go slower Where are you racing and what's the terrain like?
I have a 42.5mm shock..rs deluxe and with 25% sag it uses 80-90% of its travel..first i did 30% sag which did use full travel, but not that often... Less tsag means less pedalstrikes (in flat terrain with a lot of turns).Thanks for answering, it helps me, but it raises more questions. In my case I have a trek top fuel xc with 100mm of travel. I have put a 120mm fork and as the frame supports it, I have also put a 165 * 45 shock absorber (it came from the factory with a 165 * 38 shock absorber). And although in theory it would have to have 120-120 travels, the truth is that the bike is not designed to take advantage of the entire shock absorber travel and I think it has been about 110mm of travel. My dilemma is that I don't know if when changing frames I will notice a lot of improvement going down. Keep in mind that the Trek suspension system is a "horst link" style and this system makes the suspension very independent from braking (which is not the case with the mono pivot system). On the other hand, I like the geometry of the carbonda, but I don't know if it will be too extreme for xc marathon (steering angle about 66º with 120mm fork). Going down I'm not good, but I'm not bad either. What is your opinion?
Hope it helps