How heavy are you, what psi in the shock, how much rebound damping (clicks)?
12st
90-110 psi
Uuuuuummmmm.....somewhere in the middle
15stone, can't remember, 4 of 5 from closed on the original shiock I think.
There's a guide in the handbook on the spesh website that was pretty spot on for the stock shock, although I found upgrading to the high volume can and fitting the medium spacer transformed it. Sent mine to LOCO after it blew for the 2nd time and it came back completely different danmping and there's only a handfull of rebound clicks now and it's much better again.
thisisnotaspoon - you reckon its worth sending off to be retuned? I've had from 2010, don't ride it much tbh so never had it serviced apart from doing an air can relube.
Thought about a coil shock but they aren't cheap.
2011 pro. LV can and stendec tuned (felt a mile better afterwards, ~£80 IIRC), so YMMV: -
79.0 kg
125 psi
6th from slowest
Using a 50/50 float fluid and thin silicon grease mix.
robdob, if you don't use it that much you might not benefit from a full tune, so maybe just send it in for just a service / damping refresh instead as it'll still feel the better for it
My choice was between binning it and getting coil, or re tuning (as it's only marginal on top of the service).
Very definitely worth it. A coil (or CCDBa) may be better again, but it's very good and cost half what even a cheep coil would have. The air can was about £35 and the spacers another tenner I think. The service, tune and postage was £105 (including replacing the bits that had broken, if it's fine then it'd be cheeper).
If it's working fine at the moment I'd maybe swap the air can and play about with spacers if you want to as that's what made the greatest difference on mine, it effectively lowered the spring rate further in the travel which meant it didn't try and buck me off on big jumps which it did with the rebound set right for normal stuff. The tune was just the icing on the cake. This may/may not be a problem for lighter riders using less pressure?
Switched the stock shock on mine for a Fox DHX 5.0 Air, feels much better! Also bumped the forks up to a set of 160 Lyriks
Just fitted an adaptive logic rp23 first proper ride this weekend.
14.5 stone
Sagged and rebound
220 psi and 2 clicks off full slow.