Reba MoCo -> charge damper…. deffo worth it!

Just a little heads up for anyone considering upgrading a motins control damper to a Charge 2 (or 2.1 or 3) damper… DO IT!

It’s significantly betterer!

I picked up some super chear Rebas from CRC (£249..bargain) to try ont eh front of my singlespeed. Normally run rigid carbons on there..you know, for purity!

Anyway..they’re great, but the MoCo damper seems a bit spikey, and just never felt that great (other bike has fox with GRIP2, so lots of settings there..)

I picked up a Charge 2 damper from Bikeinn for about £180..thankfully wasn’t charged any import fees!

Popped the bike in the stand…lower legs off…ejaculate the MoCo oil all over the garage…clean up, and pop new damper in the leg.

Realise the rubber O-rings in the pack are not just a keep sake and dissasemble, apply said O-rings, and refit!

First ride with the new damper was yesterday and it feels SOOOO much more controlled, and significantly smoother…no spiking of the fork, and the lockout is a proper lockout too…

All in, it’s a worthwhile upgrade! Didn’t want to fork (chuckle) out for a SID, so this is ‘almost’ a SID now!

DrP

Didn’t even know you could fit them in a Reba. Is it the 32mm version or have they brought out a new version I missed?

Anyone remember the old Blackbox Reba Team fork about 10 years ago? They had better damping than the standard MoCo but I’m not sure what type it was.

It’s THIS BAD BOY…..

Had to do a lot of hunting around as there’s loads of different charger damper varieties…Pike, SID SL etc..

This fitted my 100mm Rebas…

DrP
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for the price of a pint of milk to can reduce the spikeyness of your Moco damper to varying degrees. it wont be as great as a full damper swap but then its loads and loads and loads cheaper.

I covered this issue a while back too….

Rockshox Reba 2018 onwards…my attempts to make them work and reccomendations

Anyone remember the old Blackbox Reba Team fork about 10 years ago?

Yup! 26in, 20mm axle. Great fork. Still being on a Dialed Bikes Prince Albert, on lightweight xc duties for an old friend.

for the price of a pint of milk to can reduce the spikeyness of your Moco damper to varying degrees. it wont be as great as a full damper swap but then its loads and loads and loads cheaper.

Do go on.

I did this to some cheap Bluto’s bought in a CRC sale a year or so ago – definitely a noticeable difference, again the charger damper was significantly reduced, not sure it’s worth it for the full RRP though.

@hopefiendboy … that’s a slightly different mod there…

looks like you upgraded the MoCO damper to a BETTER compression MoCo damper – it’s still open bath, right?

I’ve swapped the WHOLE damping unit – comp and rebound, for the charge damper…

DrP

for the price of a pint of milk to can reduce the spikeyness of your Moco damper to varying degrees. it wont be as great as a full damper swap but then its loads and loads and loads cheaper.

You tease…how then? Unless it’s literally what you’ve alluded to: milk in the damper side 🥛

Or maybe YOU drink the milk, and you just feel better about life, all milked up…?

DrP

you can make a shim with teh milk bottle to lower the threshold when teh oil flow bypasses teh damper. the inside of the moco is a metal tube that the turny bit (that covers the holes in teh damper base) fixes to. the outside plasticky bit of the damper squishes under hits and the metal rod doesnt and thats the threshold force (there is a spring too). its the same for a 8st rider as a 18st rider. you can alter the threshold by putting milk bottle shims under teh turny bit inside teh damper under teh metal rod. this lowers the amount the outside needs to squish to reduce teh spikes on big hits.

its not a panacea of greatness but it helps for £1. especially for lighter riders.

I remember the black box motion control. I think the outer compression tube was metal instead of plastic, and it had proper shimmed compression and rebound, rather than a hole that gets bigger and an adjustable blow off like the more simple motion control.

@DrP indeed it is but it has the same net effect for 1\2 the price of your 180 quid 👌😊

Either way it vastly improves the sensitivity of the forks 💪👍

Schweet!

I like the Reba… Great value fork for light trail/xc duties!

Top work all!

DrP