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enjoying myself .
smuggler 2018 Fox 36 @150mm , CC inline coil + campari and soda x finale ligure = good times
Looks proper hardcore that. Nice one. Does the 36 have the reduced offset that Transition reckon is part of the SBG stuff or are you ploughing your own furrow ?
Looks awesome. How are you finding it with the 150mm fork? My 36 is set to 140mm at the moment and it feels great.
It will also be interesting to find how out how you are liking the coil, would love to give one a go, although might be difficult to find a spring to suit as I am not the most svelte of rider!
cheers, i love it. yes offset fork. thing ive noticed most is the seat tube angle, climbing feels really solid, not a slog at all.
the coil is brilliant , and being shortravel its not wallowy at all.
Ooof that's tasty. I came close to buying a Sentinel frame but opted for an Aeris AM9 instead, which was only just built up yesterday. Would love to get it out to Finale so well jealous.
haha. Great.
Very, very special trail bike... 120 mm travel rear with coil shock - that's something... and - neat fork!
Looks fantastic. Would love to test such a bike a couple days!
Nice looking bikes.
Like that a lot.
ta . was thinking if using airshock for slightly less gnar trails back home but the coil is so good i dont think i will. i cant believe how capable it is, the whole package is a lot of fun.
Curious about one of these shocks for my 15 smuggler, how have you found bottom out on bigger hits? I am fairly heavy, probably 85kg or more in riding kit. I have a few volume reducers in the pos monarch
I've also thought thoughts about a coil in my 15 Smuggler. I'm slightly heavier at 100kg and have a plethora of reducers in my monarch. So if anyone can say more, I'd like to hear it.
I've read a fair bit of what I can find online and it seems to vary from transition saying it's great, to not advising it, and the same with riders on forums, some say it's great, some say it sucks. I'm so fed up of air shocks failing though, especially these monarchs.
Hi sorry I missed these posts. spoke to Transition before installing the shock and they said a coil would work great but mentioned trying a float X2 as well...
I really like it, it does bottom out occasionally but yeah it should as well, thats what shocks are for. I have a 450 valt spiing in it now, I'm 79 kg of raw power ( ! ) I have a 550 if anyone needs it.
I have a similar vintage Scout (2016). Thought about running a coil, decided against it due to the leverage curve of the bike not actually being that progressive. My take was that it would be difficult to set one up to take advantage of the benefits of coil without it using all the travel too easily given its short stroke length. Also, mines a trail bike, I have a bigger bike for bigger terrain.
I stuck a push tuned Float X on it instead and have never regretted it, apart from the servicing cost (140 a year or so to rebuild). Its a big improvement on the Monarch.
I have a coil on my 2017. It’s fantastic. I asked Jake @ Sprung Suspension and his view is it wasn’t a problem to run a coil at all on that bike. I also had him set it up, and now it’s fab. A day at BPW sold me on leaving it on. The bike is pretty heavy already so I didn’t care about a bit of extra weight.
@ehrob I have a DH bike for bigger terrain, that why i wanted coil on the trail bike!