I’ve got an Orange Five frame, 2011, and I’m looking to put a Fox RP2 or RP23 on it. From my point of view I seem to have 3 options, all of which seem more expensive then I was expecting!
1)CRC are selling the RP23 BV Adaptibe Logic Kashima coated shock for £230(ish) and I reckon that’s not bad at all.
The issue is – would I be wasting my money unless I got it custom tuned for my bike, or would this not matter seeing as it has a BV and is therefor more self tune-able?
2)Or would it be worth picking up a second hand shock and paying god knows how much to have it tuned (I reckon this would cost a lot more then buying the swanky new shock mentioned above).
3)Or finally, if by a miracle I found a shock that had come off an Orange five, would that mean it had been custom tuned to the bike?
The other option I considered is buying a shock from TFTuned but they’re prices are quite frankly ridiculous.
Any help would be very useful – I’m very disillusioned by the whole business!