As per the title, is this possible?
I bought a set of new Reba RL's in 130mm guise. I also bought a 120mm air shaft with a view to reducing travel but it doesn't fit. After some checking up, ai see that my form is 130-150mm (who would want a 150mm Reba?!?). So the question is whether it is possible to reduce the travel of a Rockshox solo air fork to below the min-max range, and if so, how.
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who would want a 150mm Reba?
That's what I came here to find out.
Reba is 100-120mm, sounds like you have bought something else.
Not the case. They now make Rebas all the way up to 150mm (look on the RS website). From what I can work out (looking at the RS parts manual), the 130-150mm version is different from the up to 120mm version (the stanchions are clearly different as they have travel marks for 150mm). This means that I cannot do a simple air shaft replacement (which I tried before I realised) as air shafts only allow travel adjustment within the design spec of the fork, so with this fork I could fit a 140mm or 150mm air shaft to increase travel, but not a 120mm to decrease.
So the question is whether it is possible to do anything at all to 'shim' down the travel on a solo air fork. At the moment, my only real option is to run the fork with more sag lose the unwanted 10mm.
As for why I am so exercised about just 10mm... I am running these on a Niner Air 9 frame which is designed for 100-120mm fork. I know that 130mm is not going to kill anything, but it does upset the geometry a bit.
I have a new pair of 100mm travel with remote lockout lever, etc.
I fancy some 130's....