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Alpkit punting these forks out on eBay, but I can't find out anything really about the dual position spring- most mentions online are of the old forks with a travel decrease to help with climbing.
Charger damper, boost, 160mm, uncut steerer am I missing something- price seems a bit too good for a 29er fork in todays world.
If you are happy with the offset I'd pull the trigger!
They're quite old. Not sure what year, but they don't make a dual position air spring anymore. It's a simple change over to a debonair spring though I believe. I don't think the dual position air was particularly well received, plus largely pointless with modern geometry.
The chassis and the charger damper will all be good kit though. The RCT3 isn't as good as the more modern chargers, but it's not far off and definitely better than the motion control in the yari.
Factor in a service as they may have been sitting on the shelf a while.
Ok, thanks
I have those exact forks from the same seller. They're perfectly fine, especially for a shade over £300, but two things to note:
They're 160 or 130mm dual position rather than anything inbetween. I've not been able to get them to sit at 150mm as it suggests in the ad.
The stanchions are different in dual position forks as far as I can tell so they can't be switched to a debonair shaft without swapping the whole top half, at which point it becomes cheaper to just buy the fork you actually want in the first place.
The stanchions are different in dual position forks
Ah I didn't realise that! Ignore my comment above about debonair then.
Just To confirm the Ox
From Rockshox
You can change your RockShox DebonAir or Solo Air fork to Dual Position Air (or vice versa,) but you will need to change the CSU (Crown-Steerer-Upper assembly,) and the air spring assembly.
DebonAir and Solo Air CSUs use a small dimple in the stanchion which allows for air bypass when setting up the air chambers properly. The Dual Position Air CSU has no dimple - a dimple in this CSU would not allow the Dual Position spring to function properly by allowing air bypass when it shouldn't.
I loved my 140/120 dual position forks, made climbing so much better but as above, that was on a bike with a steeper head angle and the front tyre used to lift and I would lose traction. Doesn't really happen anymore on modern geometry bikes. Either that or I don't make it as far these days.
140 always felt fine, didn't notice any difference. 120 felt a lot lower than 120 and did feel different, dived a bit. Ok for climbing but I'd never descend on 120 setting.
As long as the travel options on it work for you then for that price they’re ok. I think the dual position lyriks were meant to be slightly less sensitive than solo air / debonair ones but still a decent enough fork.
It’ll be charger 2 rather than charger 2.1 or 3. But it’s still comfortably better than motion control.