[Closed] Only ever had air forks ..are coils that much plusher?

There's a difference in 'feel' yes, but I hate that 'plush' word (It just means soft and squidgy to me) I'd say they are maybe a tiny bit better, but it's not night and day if you know how to set an air fork up.....

Simpler though, less faffing. 🙂

Depends what you mean by 'that much'. These days, air stuff is much closer to coil than it used to be, especially longer travel stuff where the air chambers are bigger, but generally, coil has the edge.

IMO, its a small edge these days. I'd rather have the weight saving and tuneability. 5 years ago I was a coil man though.

My old dual air Marz Z1s are way plusher than my coil pikes.

comparing like for like, coils are 'plusher'

how fat is fat in fat bastard? the aggro of changing to the correct spring might easily outweigh the slight improvement in feel of the coils

I can only report that my F120s (air sprung) are much more small bump responsive than my TORAs (coil spring). But > 2x more expensive so that's not surprising.

Think the differnece is getting more and more marginal for forks but is still pretty significant for shocks due to the relative air chamber sizes

If you can get the correct sping for coils I think the benefits are better small bump sensitivity and the ramp up through the travel that prevents big bottoms out.

I have 36 vans and compared to the 36 TALAS's I had on a demo bike that is my experience.

Again all getting more marginal. You need to weigh that up against the weight and adjustability of air.

Air's weight and tunability advantages over coils win for me on forks, shocks always seem better as coils though

Taz - unless you get a specially wound spring, nearly all coils are pretty linear and don't ramp that much compared to air.

How Fat?

I had a nice chat with Tim at TFtuned a while back saying I was struggling getting my air fork set up correctly. He asked how heavy I was, which is 14 stone (same as him) and he recommended going coil (and didn't try to sell me any). Swapped to a Lyrik coil, got the corrent spring and its a revalation. Love it.

How fat

110 kg!!

I always had air shocks until my bike suddenly got heavier and I got some coil Pikes. They are a clear improvement over anything I've had previously, but they were considerably more expensive also. 🙂

How fat

110 kg!!

I have cheap coil forks. Whilst I can't comment on plushness due to aformenetioned cheapness, I actually like the fact that they aren't too adjustable. It means I don't worry about it...