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Also TMB. Even in the MX world, with their heavy duty seals and 200lb+ bikes that can overcome stiction, the airforks like the SFF are still having issues with reliability and stiction. What's more, they add more air chambers than usual in the mountainbike world to try to get the forks springrate closer to coils. Ohlins and Manitou have gone down this route in MTB.... is that what we really want though? More seals, more stiction, less reliability just to make an air fork feel like a coil? When you could just buy a coil in the first place?
Because air is lighter and more tuneable to different frames - air shock tech has moved on massively. Plus it's all down to the frame and the fork you're using to balance the ride
I used to be a firm believer that a coil was the best spring for all jobs. Now I'm a bit more open-minded. The vector coil on the swoop rode amazingly well - the Storia that I tried was good too but as Joe said above, it sucked the life from the frame.
Anyway - horses for courses. Have fun riding and thinking
Where as other reviews on the Storia mention how playful it is. Playfulness is down to setup in a shock that can have the reservoir volume/pressure altered.
You could have had that Storia modified instead of replacing it.
that's the problem with making decisions based on reviews instead of real life
Why mod something when the XFusion was half the price and better for the frame?