Not had much luck finding any specifics on the 'cons' of offset bushings.
I'm going back to 150mm forks on my remedy but want to keep a slacked headangle but wanted to know if I will get reduced travel and/or less plush rear suspension as it supposedly changes the effective stroke length of the shock? (only able to use one bushing on the frame)
Any advice would be appreciated.
Stroke stays the same, only the eye to eye is reduced drops BB and slacker , just need to check rear wheel clears frame, running some on a Santa Cruz Butcher just tweaked it to how I like it, noticed a very slight strange movement when peddling slowly but nothing major.
I thought the i2i stayed the same too but it has the effect of reducing the eye to eye?
Thinking of trying them on my reign but it only takes a bushing on the top anyway...
no difference in the stroke of the shock, will move the linkage into parts of the stroke the designers have no designed for (minimal though) may cause contact of linkage/tyre/frame (again check and unlikely)
If you do get them get steel or Ti ones as the aluminium ones wear rather quickly, as check the eyelet bushes on the shock regularly as the forces transmitted to it arn't concentric anymore due to the mounting bolt hole being offset.
I don't sell them, but can reduce the length of shocks while maintaining the stroke by machining the shock, this isn't reversable though so the offsets are a good temporary why of see how much you want removed.
Thanks LoCo, that's very helpful. I may investigate the machined shock if the offset does what I want. The remedy obviously has the semi-proprietary DCRV shock anyway so wouldn't burn any bridges.
Cheers