Anyone with a 2013 Canyon Strive or other bike thinking that the shock goes too easily through it’s travel? The float ctd bv seems to have little holding it back mid stroke so even though sag is set at 20% I’m pushing the rubber ring off the end of the shock in trail mode on nothing more than 18″ drops.

Mojo suggested a spring volume tuning kit to ramp up the end of the stroke but before I shell out £33 I figured it was worth asking if anyone else had issues in case it could be something else. It doesn’t seem right that a shock needs upgrading from new – or are they known for this?

Cheers

It’s Canyon’s spec on the shock, a volume tuning kit will sort the mid to end of stroke support, we supply the vol. tuning kits too. 😀

So no chance that the shock could be tuned incorrectly and I need to speak to Canyon?

If it’s an XV can, the leverage is too high for the shock, so either a standard can or like LoCo says, slap a volume reducer in that puppy.

you could send it back for a warranty inspection, but it’s most likely that the stock tune and air can volume is just too linear, fitting an air volume spacer should sort your issues.

Tuning kit ordered. Here’s hoping.

Which is what I suggested on Saturday anyway !?

I have that shock on my Orange 5. It is def under damped, rebound is on full and when set with around 25/30% sag it bottoms out way too easily when in the dh mode, so much so that I cant use that setting. I just think that it’s too linear.

It is def under damped, rebound is on full

Pretty sure that’s broken.

For your bottom out issue it’s the same answer as above, get a volume reducer in there.

I have this shock on my Strive and have sent it back to mojo to get re valved as it was too lightly sprung to support my manliness 😆

Yup 2013 Orange five same shock same issue. I preferred my rp2 except the lockout function is excellent

Which is what I suggested on Saturday anyway !?

Yup, but I can’t get my head round them putting a shock on a bike that doesn’t do the job properly so I had to ask. If I spent hundreds on any other product that didnt do the job it’s supposed to from new I’d be livid. I’m still non too pleased about this. 😐

Yeah the volume spec seems out on quite a few bikes. However, it is impossible to have the correct setup for all riders, so a custom tune is always on the cards. Unfortunately the spring/volume element of that seems wrong for the majority

Same on 2013 Gyro, got the volume spacer but haven’t fitted it yet.

Mine doesn’t sound as bad as the OPs though.

I’ve got the spacer kit which comes in three sizes – small, medium, large. It takes 2mins to de-pressurize, unscrew the shock, fit a spacer and test. I’m running the medium spacer at the moment, last week I was trying the large volume spacer and it nearly bucked me off the bike. The spacer will sort your lardy @$$ out. 😆

Make sure you get the right kits for your shocks though, the RP23/float etc kit has 3 spacers, the CTD ones are different diameter and have 5 spacers in the kit. 😀

I had an RP23 Kashima on my Nomad c and got rid of it for a CCDB due to this issue. At the time I spoke to a few ‘knowlegable’ people and was advised something like the bike company has to pick a shock tune ‘as standard’ and so they go for something like a 12 stone guy or something. If your significantly above this then you struggle to get the shock to behave properly.

I was gona get a revalve, and should have tried the volume spacers before I ditched it all together – but im happy running the coil that I’ve got on there now.

Got the biggest spacer in the CTD on my AL+. Couldnt get anything other than supermarket special performance without the volume kit. It was a long wait from December until I could get my hands on the CTD kit. The bike is pretty much sorted now although at 17st kitted up I’m bang on the limit of what the standard rebound damping can control. Not an issue as the weights still coming off. I’ll consider a retune once I loose a few more stone.

Once you’ve got the rear sorted you’ll probably want to add a few ml of oil to the fork air chamber to get a balanced feel to the suspension.

I cant see why Canyon dont offer to put the correct spacer for your weight in the shock for a small upcharge in a similar fashion to theyre correct fork spring weight service.

I’m 12 stone and it still bottoms out and I’m no big air specialist by a long shot. If I add more air it bounces every where on trail

Got a CTD on my gyro, had the same issue at the start where it bottomed out far too easily with the right sag (or even too little). Spoke to Orange who speedily sent me the volume spacer. All dandy now.