RockShox Flight Attendant review: efficient, neat, fun

RockShox Flight Attendant is the new electronic suspension system from The House of SRAM that promises to solve your woes for good.

Brand: RockShox
Product: Zeb Ultimate Flight Attendant, Super Deluxe Ultimate Flight Attendant
From: sram.com
Price: N/A (£8,799 for complete bike, YT Capra Uncaged 6)
Tested by: Antony for 3 three weeks

Do you compulsively lock out your shock on climbs, trying to preserve every ounce of energy? And do you often get to the bottom of a descent wondering why your bike was riding like a sack of potatoes, only to realise you hadn’t unlocked it again?

Three things we loved

It’s a very user-friendly system that’s easy to tune and tweak.
It’s genuinely effective in most riding situations.
Lack of wires makes it look super clean and tidy.

Three things we’d change

Wireless components mean lots of batteries to keep topped up.
It’s furiously expensive, and unlikely to get cheaper.
No aftermarket option yet.

Like a Tamagotchi, but rad

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Review Info

Brand:	RockShox
Product:	Zeb Ultimate Flight Attendant, Super Deluxe Ultimate Flight Attendant
From:	https://www.yt-industries.com
Price:	£8,799 for complete bike (YT Capra Uncaged 6)
Tested:	by Antony for Three weeks

Antony de Heveningham

Antony was a latecomer to the joys of riding off-road, and he’s continued to be a late adopter of many of his favourite things, including full suspension, dropper posts, 29ers, and adult responsibility. At some point he decided to compensate for his lack of natural riding talent by organising maintenance days on his local trails. This led, inadvertently, to writing for Singletrack, after one of his online rants about lazy, spoilt mountain bikers who never fix trails was spotted and reprinted on this website during a particularly slow news week. Now based just up the road from the magazine in West Yorkshire, he’s expanded his remit to include reviews and features as well as rants. He’s also moved on from filling holes in the woods to campaigning for changes to the UK’s antiquated land access laws, and probing the relationship between mountain biking and the places we ride. He’s a firm believer in bringing mountain biking to the people, whether that’s through affordable bikes, accessible trails, enabling technology, or supportive networks. He’s also studied sustainable transport, and will happily explain to anyone who’ll listen why the UK is a terrible place for everyday utility cycling, even though it shouldn’t be. If that all sounds a bit worthy, he’s also happy to share tales of rides gone awry, or delicate bike parts burst asunder by ham-fisted maintenance. Because ultimately, there are enough talented professionals in mountain bike journalism, and it needs more rank amateurs.