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Nerd alert.
With my bikes and the GF's bikes (and spare bits in the bits box) I have lots of air forks and air shocks, so it seemed sensible to buy into Shockwiz. Deville x3, Pike, Lyrik, Vivid Air, Monarch+, Monarch+ DebonAir, Vip'r, Vector Air, RP23.
Swapping between forks is relatively easy. Swapping between shocks is more fiddly. To mitigate this I bought 2x Shockwiz. One was direct mount but it was dead on arrival; I hedged my bets and bought 2 more normals while the direct one is being replaced.
I have now tuned the first bike and the net result is one bottomless token added (which was on the cards anyway) and one click of adjustment to LSC on the shock.
Price per click demonstrates something about #foolandmoney, I believe.
Maybe my stats will improve when we get onto the GF's bikes.
My question would be does it feel better with those changes? You were in the ballpark already without using one, and were going ro add a token soon.
To me that sounds like the Shockwiz was a complete waste of money as it hasnt really told you anything you didnt know anyway.
What it tells me is you were pretty much spot on with how it needed to be just through riding it as oppose to what a gizmo tells you it needs to be at. Technically correct but may yet still prove to be incorrect for your riding style......
Pretty much spot on, both comments. I've always obsessed over setup (which doesn't mean I haven't made mistakes) but I was pretty happy with my starting point on the most sorted bike. The tweak to add a token was to lower the front, to get an overall balance.
Because this was a secondhand bike I'd not been inside the fork and seen it was already on 2 tokens. Factory spec is 1. I'm now on 3. On the day, with Shockwiz, I started on 2 tokens, tested at 1 token then committed to 3.
The Shockwiz suggestions from noodling around Surrey Hills singletrack on my 165mm travel enduro weapon were a bit muddled, with it looking most aligned with "Efficient" tuning style but wanting more air and slower rebound. I ignored all these suggestions and hunted out the steepest gnar available (Thick and Creamy) and then the suggestions jumped in line for "balanced".
IME, tuning style, bike style, terrain and riding style all need to match in order for Shockwiz to get its suggestions correct.
Real purpose of the purchase is to help the GF cross check what her bikes are doing. In order to engage with that conversation I need to understand how the tool can guide or misdirect. It is pretty much what I expected. If you don't give the tool the whole picture, the suggestions won't necessarily make sense.