I’ve got a couple of new bikes recently and just wanted to check a couple of things on the forks.

1) Pike RC Lockout

One bike has a set of Pike RCs. I’ve come from a set of Pike RCT3s where a full clockwise turn of the compression dial just about locked the fork out. On the new RCs a full clockwise turn of the compression dial firms up the fork, but not so much you would consider it locked out. Is that correct?

2) Revelation RL travel adjustment.

The other bike has a set of Revelation RLs, formerly from a Boardman Pro FS-

http://www.halfords.com/cycling/bikes/mountain-bikes/boardman-mountain-bike-pro-full-suspension-650b

These are set at 130mm and I fancy a little bit more travel. It’s not essential, the forks were cheap and I’m happy to lose 10mm for the £100 or so I saved, but it’d be nice. Is is possible to convert the fork by removing All Travel spacers as shown in the bikeradar guide below, or are these at maximum travel at 130mm?

http://www.bikeradar.com/gear/article/workshop-how-to-adjust-travel-on-a-rockshox-trail-fork-26840/

Thanks.

Neither the RCt3 or the RC have a full lockout as such just a very heavy low speed compression blow off, the RC may just have a lower threshold, saying that different dampers of the same model can be varible depending on how well they were put together as well.
Travel change on the revelation, you just swap the air shaft for a 140 or 150mm one.

Thanks LoCo. Not too worried about the lockout, just wanted to make sure the fork was behaving – when my RCT3 compression dial stopped working it required quite a bit of work to sort it so just wanted to check.

The air shaft in the Revs, this thing?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rock-Revelation-Shaft-Change-Travel/dp/B0199Y9RUG

(I assume you can supply them?)

I might have a 140mm rev air shaft going unused, need to check the length but fairly sure it is 140mm.

That’d be nice if you could have a look jim.