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Sending my pike into tf for a well deserved pampering, and noticed they offer a FAST upgrade to the standard charger damper for £160 including the service.
Has anyone had this done, and what's the verdict?
Mine are booked in for tomorrow, they won't be back until Monday so I will try and report back next week.
There are actually 2 different tuning variations they do.
One is just the rebound piston, which I think is designed to stop the spikey rebound effect you can get with them, the other is basically replacing all the internals of the Charger Damper, it changes them to a separate HSC & LSC adjuster
The latter is designed to give you a bit more of a usable range of LSC & replace the RS equivalent of CTD with an actual HSC adjuster. I think they replace everything in the Charger damper for that part.
It sounds a little bit like they've invented the Lyrik 😆
Possibly, but without the extra boat anchor attached to it 🙂
There may even be rumours of a spring conversion kit too...
They already offer a spring conversion for it.
Keen to find out the knitty gritty on this.
It sounds a little bit like they've invented the Lyrik
Lyrik was open bath, heavy and divey in comparison to the pike. I believe it has proper midvalving as well.
Anyway, avalanche do a similar conversion. They go a little bit further than FAST I believe, including bringing the bladder system inline with what you see on motorbike forks.
http://www.avalanchedownhillracing.com/Rock%20Shox/Pike%20Charge%20Piston_Valve%20Upgrade%20Kit.htm
They already offer a spring conversion for it.
Link? There's a company in Germany doing ti springs for the mattoc.
So what you're saying is ive got a pike after two years of reviews and Internet forums saying its a great fork but now without this upgrade is basically pants....stw .n+1 strikes again 🙂
Well, I'm new-ish to Pikes, about 6 months, and although they're stiffer than my Revs, I found the damping quality a bit of a disappointment after all the hype. They're nice enough, but not that much different from what I had before.
Link? There's a company in Germany doing ti springs for the mattoc.
Call TF Tuned.
http://www.tftuned.com/tech-help/22-rockshox
Call TF Tuned.
That's for the Lyrik.
Didn't notice that notchiness that you got on the Lyrik solo airs in the Pikes either, they were smoother than my newly serviced coil Lyriks!