Merry Christmas all!
I'm keen to ride tomorrow but the forecast is bitterly cold and I'm apprehensive that my 2009 RP23 or 2009 Fox 32 RLs could pop - I've read a lot about problems with suspension and brakes in the cold and I feel a bit deterred if it's going to put my kit out of action for weeks just for a short, muddy ride. I'd rather just go out on the road bike.
Have any of you ridden Fox gear from about this period in near-freezing conditions and NOT had it blow up on you? I'm trying to figure out whether it's only a small percentage of riders who've had this. If it's above 50% I'm hanging up my mtb until it warms up.
Have had 3 different rp23 shocks and 2 sets of air 36's. Only had a problem once in cold weather which was with a 2 week old shock. I was told by mojo at the time that it was caused by a bad batch of seals. I've ridden 6days a week on average this year and however many cold days in the previous 2 years since it went and never had any problems.
Ridden every day for the past few weeks and haven't had any problems; this is using float forks and rp23 shocks.
never had a problem with my rp23 in cold weather... touch wood!
Hi ho, hi ho, off riding tomorrow I go, in my brand new pimp white shorts and gloves
Thanks!
I've riden my month old Cube Stereo Race which has RP23BV & 32 Talas FIT's three times in -8º and about 6 times in near zero and been no trouble at all.
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you need to compress the forks/shock while in the warmth of indoors to get the oil flowing through the damping circuits. this helps prevent "stuck down" fully compressed shocks.
Talas, RP23 and F120's - all ridden in -9 to -5 in teh last few weeks all fine!
The weather would never stop me riding...might as well ride and break it rather than not ride for two weeks as its too cold! I've had issues with Fox shocks (normally the plastic spacer breaking allowing the damping oil and nitrogen to mix) but never got it stuck down.
Went out 2 days ago in 0 to -1 temperatures.
My 32RL's were fine.
Good ol' coating of snow as well!
No issues from my units in minus temps...
There were a few lads out this morning with both Fox forks & shocks and it was -15 to -11 during our ride.
No one died and all bouncy bits were working fine 😉
OK, sounds like the experience of Fox shocks blowing is common, but far from universal, to say the least
I wonder if some degree of rider error is involved, i.e. if you're riding too hard, on a shock set up too soft (or too hard), then cold weather could tip it over the edge whereas in warmer climes it would probably tolerate it
I'm not even sure how common it is if you consider just how many fox shocks must be out there. I think if you dig, the stuck down issue was mainly (but not exclusively) the Dhx line of air shocks. Speaking to Mojo a couple of tears ago it was traced to a faulty o-ring and has since been replaced. I know of a couple of 2005 & 2006 dhx5's sticking down but none of the recent ones.