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[Closed] Rockshox Pike Charger dampers

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I'm building myself a 'nice' bike with some newish bits and some parts bin bits.

For the forks I've got some Pike select+ from the CRC sale that are currently on my hardtail. I want to put these on my new bike so I bought some second hand pikes to put on the hardtail. These came with an upgraded charger damper.

According to TrailHead the CRC select+ have a CHARGER 2.1 RC damper. Is there any merit is swapping dampers? Is one likely to be better than the other?

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Posted : 22/04/2022 10:57 am
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The select+ damper should be the better damper. It’s a 2.1 charger with lsc and lsr adjustment.

The older one you have there is a charger 2 damper by the looks of it - the rct3 version so it has lsc adjustment in open and then the 2 lockout sort of style settings. Also has lsr.


 
Posted : 22/04/2022 11:03 am
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The select+ damper should be the better damper.

+1 it's really good.

What you might want to look into doing though, is updating the air spring on the older fork.


 
Posted : 22/04/2022 11:05 am
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Ride em...see if you notice the difference. 🙂


 
Posted : 22/04/2022 11:07 am
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The Charger 2.1 in the Select+ is superb. Its the current top level, just misses the individual adjustments (high and low speed) you would get on a Pike ultimate currently.


 
Posted : 22/04/2022 11:09 am
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Great. Thanks, saves me some work. The spring has already been upgraded in the 2nd hand one too.


 
Posted : 22/04/2022 11:30 am