Cheers Chief, yep large with 150 Pike. Was admiring your Spitfire on here the other week
🙂 You’ve got a lot of geometric tweakability there – slacker and lower or steeper and higher with the dropouts, plus slacker and higher if you change the fork air spring to make it a 160mm. Definitely try the different dropout positions, they really change the bike’s character.
The shock is really very good. I’ve added a volume spacer plus a bit more HSR. Not finding the pikes as easy to configure tbh. They’re good but just not great which given everyone’s reviews doesn’t stack up. not great small bump plushness. I’ve got the oil and butter now so will do a quick service in case they came a bit dry from the factory.
I have the CCDBair-CS and am running the base tune with 28% sag – it took me about 6 months to get the Pike perfectly matched! With a 160mm 27.5 one I found that two bottomless tokens, 25% sag, middling low speed compression and fairly quick rebound was the answer. If your shock has the same volume air can then I think you’ll need another bottomless token or even two (so a total of four) in the Pike to get it to ramp up like the shock.