Post by Doug on Feb 13, 2013 11:35:05 GMT
All I can say is wow!
The Canyon is now the bike I hoped it would be.
When it came in December the rear suspension with a 2013 Fox float CTD felt similar to a DHX air without the air can mod. It blew through the mid stroke and needed to be set up at around 15% sag to stop it bottoming out too often. This led to a steeper head angle, higher BB, loss of small bump sensitivity and overwhelmed the rebound damping making the bike ride like a catalogue special.
Knowing I needed to reduce the volume I contacted Mojo to get a volume tuning kit. Unfortunately the kits for 2012 and earlier shocks are incompatible with this years CTD shocks and they had none in stock. Wanting to give the bike an unbiased appraisal on it's first ride it sat in the garage until today when Mojo finally got the correct tuning kit to me.
The bike is transformed. The largest of the 5 spacers lets me run around 30% sag without harsh bottoming on decent size hits with the second largest closer to a climbing friendly 25% at sensible pressures. This in turn puts all the frame angles where they are designed to be plus gives me a couple of clicks of usable rebound.
Fitting the kit is pretty straight forward. Let all the air out, unscrew the air can, pull down the bottom out washer, insert spacer, push the bottom out washer back up, screw the air can back on and re-inflate. You don't even need to take the shock off the bike.
I've gone from 15% sag @ 280 psi to 30% sag at 200 psi whilst maintaining a similar bottom out resistance.
This kit will be of most benefit to heavier riders but may also be of use to lighter riders whose shock came with a reducer pre fitted and are finding they can't get full travel at sensible sag settings but removing the spacer completely makes too much of a difference.
More info and a good how to guide for the older kit on Pinkbike. The new kit is pretty much the same just with 5 different spacers.
The Canyon is now the bike I hoped it would be.
When it came in December the rear suspension with a 2013 Fox float CTD felt similar to a DHX air without the air can mod. It blew through the mid stroke and needed to be set up at around 15% sag to stop it bottoming out too often. This led to a steeper head angle, higher BB, loss of small bump sensitivity and overwhelmed the rebound damping making the bike ride like a catalogue special.
Knowing I needed to reduce the volume I contacted Mojo to get a volume tuning kit. Unfortunately the kits for 2012 and earlier shocks are incompatible with this years CTD shocks and they had none in stock. Wanting to give the bike an unbiased appraisal on it's first ride it sat in the garage until today when Mojo finally got the correct tuning kit to me.
The bike is transformed. The largest of the 5 spacers lets me run around 30% sag without harsh bottoming on decent size hits with the second largest closer to a climbing friendly 25% at sensible pressures. This in turn puts all the frame angles where they are designed to be plus gives me a couple of clicks of usable rebound.
Fitting the kit is pretty straight forward. Let all the air out, unscrew the air can, pull down the bottom out washer, insert spacer, push the bottom out washer back up, screw the air can back on and re-inflate. You don't even need to take the shock off the bike.
I've gone from 15% sag @ 280 psi to 30% sag at 200 psi whilst maintaining a similar bottom out resistance.
This kit will be of most benefit to heavier riders but may also be of use to lighter riders whose shock came with a reducer pre fitted and are finding they can't get full travel at sensible sag settings but removing the spacer completely makes too much of a difference.
More info and a good how to guide for the older kit on Pinkbike. The new kit is pretty much the same just with 5 different spacers.
